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In this article, the author, Carrie Courogen, discusses the controversial issue of censorship in schools. As a journalist for her own school newspaper, her work on censorship was ironically censored itself, and not printed. Courogen reminds us that students rights are protected by Supreme Court rulings, but by the Hazelwood vs Kuhlmeier case, the Supreme Court ruled censorship of school newspapers was ruled constitutional. Along with school newspaper censorship being constitutional, schools are also allowed to censor certain books that were one time classics, such as Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn.
Courogen goes on to discuss how students in high school are constistently being reminded they need to be prepared for the "real world", but by schools censoring every controversial issue, it is doing exactly the opposite, and sheltering the youth from the realities of society.
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I think this article is interesting coming from a student journalist. She has directly dealt with the frustrations of school censorship. The information in the article is educational as well as passionate. She states court rulings for students rights as well as rulings for schools rights to censor. The article is from 2009, so it is fairly new, and all the information is still accurate. Schools are still censoring as they deem necessary.
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I thought this article was well-written and informative as well as passionate. The author obviously has a love for writing, and her work not being expressed because it was deemed innapropriate is proposterous. The schools have taken censoring way too far, and are taking away students basic freedoms of speech and press. Not only are they taking students rights to express themselves away, they are banning books that expose students to the reality of the world, and that is taking away potential knowledge.
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Sarah Kelly Wright. Music is by Kevin MacLeod of incompetech.com under Creative Commons License. Song titles are Movement Proposition and Interloper. September 23, 2011.
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This video talks about book censorship in schools. It brings up Banned Books Week, which is a week where people read "banned" books to take a stand and bring awareness to unfair school censorship on classic and intellectual books that once challenged society to think outside the box.
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I liked the idea of this video, how people have to hide who they are if they are reading something "censored". I like how they point out that these books are shocking and challenge societies views. I don't like how they don't go more in depth about when Banned Books Week is, or the history of it, or even what else you can do about literary censorship.
Reflect
I think celebrating Banned Books Week is a great way to challenge school censorship. People should express their freedom to read what they want. Everyone should take a stand on people taking away valuable literary opinions and values.
Brandy
Brandy, looking good. That citation for the video works fine. I added comments boxes to all of the pages. . thanks for pointing that out.
ReplyDeleteI've always assumed there was some reason for schools censoring things despite our Constitutional Rights. I didn't know, though, that there was a Supreme Court Case that deemed censoring school newspapers as Constitutional. I also think it's neat that there's a "Banned Book Week." Especially after the new version of Huckleberry Finn came out last year with the 'n' word completely expunged, and because I value literature so much, it is really great to see that there are people fighting back, although subtly.
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