PENNSYLVANIA — Several students were suspended in March for distributingan underground newspaper that administrators said contained “hurtful” commentsabout other students at the school.
Council Rock High School principal David Yates suspended the honor studentsafter they created and distributed copies of The Laundromat Liberator,which attacked three students in particular with “hurtful, embarrassingand slanderous” comments, Yates told The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Yates would not specify how many students were suspended or for howlong. He also would not mention the names of any students involved. Hesaid, however, that the suspensions ranged from one to 10 days.
The issue of The Laundromat Liberator that led to the students’suspensions was the first edition of the underground paper. It was partiallydistributed before Yates confiscated all the copies he could find and suspendedthe students.