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Posted on 12/06/2025 3:55:39 PM PST by ProgressingAmerica
Since the late 19th century, school yearbooks have been a ubiquitous and mostly unchanging element of American school life. Decade after decade, they deliver a predictable mix of class, club, and team photos, cheesy graphics, and cringey comments. But the most consistent feature of yearbooks may be what they don’t include—references to political upheaval or resistance movements.
As public schools across the United States face heightened censorship and the threat of funding losses for noncompliance, school yearbooks remind us that there is nothing new about political censorship in schools. A few rare examples also reveal that there some students and educators always find ways to circumvent expectations and policies.
Before and After the Hazelwood Ruling
In the United States, the censorship of school publications is nearly blamed on a 1988 Supreme Court ruling, though the ruling simply codified a practice that was already well established.
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Schools cannot function without control by adults, which includes censoring whatever stupidity the little retards want to come up with.
They might as well learn about the real world the Publisher, the student editor is employee. No editor can overrule the publisher.
The school, the publisher, told the student” editor” what the content would be.
Think the Washington Post editor can print something Bezos forbids?
Self censorship is a necessary thing when exercised by people with a conscience. Government enforced censorship is illegal.
Oh noes - they’re censoring mention of BLM… the horrors
Censorship of high schoolers is actually a good thiing. The juviniles there are not mature enough to say or write anything worthwhile.
Absolutely! Without censorship chaos would rule.
It is for this reason, that government schools are a major threat to our republic.
Children learn that the government has tremendous police power over their lives. They also learn that this police power threatens their families and neighbors if they refuse to fund these schools. If police power can provide tuition-free schooling, why not use that power to make their neighbors pay for **lots** of “free” stuff?
Very true, otoh government censorship is supposed to be extremely limited. Illustrates how government schools are in conflict with the constitution.
But... the little mush-brains also learn to be comfortable with government suppression of thought.
All schooling should be private. Discipline and censorship matters should be decided privately by agreement among the parents and **private** school teachers and administrators.
Not in a government school.
Is this the lesson that should be taught to mushy-brained children?
Finally! Someone here on Free Republic “gets it”.!!!
Welcome to the **very** small club of people that understand that government schooling violates **every** First Amendment human right.
I agree!
In a private school censorship can be determined privately among the parents and the private school teachers and principals.
When children are forced into a compulsory government school, censorship is a violation of the First Amendment. And...it is disgusting that their neighbors are under very serious police threat to fund this human rights abomination.
If the kiddos don’t like the “censorship”, they are free to go off-campus and make their own yearbook at their own expense.
Kids have no rights to print stuff with impunity in yearbooks. They have moderators.
Whaaa, whaaaa, whaaaa — evil Principal won’t let us write adoringly about George Floyd!
+1 for proper use of retards.
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