High school
administrators in Tennessee, Florida and California earned a place on the same
blacklist as President Bush, the Department of Justice and the Federal
Communications Commission chairman.
What do school administrators at
Oak Ridge High School in Tennessee, Wellington High School in Florida and Troy
High School in California have in common with heavy-hitters like top U.S.
officials?
All are governmental bodies that stomped on free speech
rights in a major way during 2005, according to the Thomas Jefferson Center for
the Protection of Free Expression.
Being on the list comes with a
dubious award called the
Tag: Troy High School
Former editor's appeal to school goes unanswered
Administrators fired Ann Long from her position as editor of the Oracle because she did not receive parental consent before talking to students about their sexuality for an article that ran in December 2004.
H.S. editor fired over article
Troy High School officials wrongfully justified their firing of the editor of the student newspaper with a section of the state education code that requires parental permission before schools question students about their sex lives, according to a legal analyst for the California Department of Education.