What a way to teach freedom


School officials censor award winning student magazine
Do you suppose if this hadn't been about the football team, the same thing would have happened?

Princeton's principal censored the December issue of its student-run magazine, Odin's Word, by making the student staff rip out two pages that contained an opinion piece criticizing the school's football team for the past three losing seasons. The school's athletic director and football coach had complained that the article was unfair to the team and didn't give it the opportunity to respond.

Bill Leach, the football coach who also is married to the Princeton district's school board president, said he complained about the article but didn't request that it be pulled.

Part of his job is taking criticism, he said. But it's not his players' job.

"I don't know how much good that does to the environment here at the high school," Leach said. "What purpose does it serve? We've got a lot of issues in this school. We don't need to be tearing each other apart."

Umm, unless that Cincinnati high school is radically different, much of high school is supposed to be about adjusting to social roles and learning to take criticism.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Mon - January 8, 2007 at 04:43 AM  Tag


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