Why is MCPS censoring student newspapers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Great opportunity for kids to openly oppose MCPS and then write about it for their college applications. I fought the law!

Actually, Taylor fought the law and he will lose.Read the Bethesda Magazine article.

This guy is more and more like Trump.

The article says that a guy who makes his money by begging for donations to sue on behalf of student
newspapers is concerned that the law *might* be broken in the future

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Great opportunity for kids to openly oppose MCPS and then write about it for their college applications. I fought the law!

Actually, Taylor fought the law and he will lose.Read the Bethesda Magazine article.

This guy is more and more like Trump.

The article says that a guy who makes his money by begging for donations to sue on behalf of student
newspapers is concerned that the law *might* be broken in the future

Correct. The law might be broken and Taylor will be sued adding to the long list of lawsuits he is already piling up.
Taylor loves to be sued. That is why he already violated Maryland procurement laws.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The admin already is unable to do the work students and families need them to do so giving them one more thing to do seems dumb.

Does anyone know the supposedly hurtful things that were published that motivated this?

My hunch is it had something to do with this Sherwood senior t-shirt incident from earlier this school year. Moran's memo mentioned "any printed items (publications, clothing etc.)"

https://mocoshow.com/2025/10/16/high-school-senior-t-shirt-sparks-outrage-for-evoking-racial-slur-mcps-launches-investigation/

[Anonymous]

FCPS has never appreciated free speech the way MCPS has

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The admin already is unable to do the work students and families need them to do so giving them one more thing to do seems dumb.

Does anyone know the supposedly hurtful things that were published that motivated this?

I think there were some complaints about an article covering 10/7 vigils at UMD that some people thought spent too much time talking about the anti-genocide vigils and not enough time talking about the pro-Israeli vigils. (Ignoring the fact that the article was focusing on the anti-genocide vigil largely because UMD tried to cancel it and then reinstated it after a lawsuit, which was really what the story was about.)

[Anonymous]

Why don't the students create their own "paper" and report/write as they see fit?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why don't the students create their own "paper" and report/write as they see fit?

Because there is no need for them to do that, the student newspapers should not be subject to illegal censorship and the students should fight that instead of accepting it and trying to get around it with their personal resources

[Anonymous]

Taylor is a master at taking one incident as an excuse to create a draconian policy that hurts kids to make his job easier

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Great opportunity for kids to openly oppose MCPS and then write about it for their college applications. I fought the law!

Actually, Taylor fought the law and he will lose.Read the Bethesda Magazine article.

This guy is more and more like Trump.

Don’t care about Taylor as much as you do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why don't the students create their own "paper" and report/write as they see fit?

Because there is no need for them to do that, the student newspapers should not be subject to illegal censorship and the students should fight that instead of accepting it and trying to get around it with their personal resources

You state "there is no need" yet you then immediately state the need!

This scenario is as old as time and has played out repeatedly throughout not only American history but world history.

If the students care about this, they should figure out a solution, not sit by paralyzed and complaining about the status-quo.

These students are clever and enterprising and there are plenty of low or no cost paths they could take to get this done. In fact, this would be a FABULOUS real-life lesson/exercise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why don't the students create their own "paper" and report/write as they see fit?

Because there is no need for them to do that, the student newspapers should not be subject to illegal censorship and the students should fight that instead of accepting it and trying to get around it with their personal resources

:shock:

You state "there is no need" yet you then immediately state the need!

This scenario is as old as time and has played out repeatedly throughout not only American history but world history.

If the students care about this, they should figure out a solution, not sit by paralyzed and complaining about the status-quo.

These students are clever and enterprising and there are plenty of low or no cost paths they could take to get this done. In fact, this would be a FABULOUS real-life lesson/exercise.

What? No. Organizing legal action is not "sitting around and complaining" - that is what they should be devoting their resources to, not creating a homegrown paper on their own dime. My guess is they can find someone to take this case pro bono or a nonprofit can fund it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why don't the students create their own "paper" and report/write as they see fit?

Because there is no need for them to do that, the student newspapers should not be subject to illegal censorship and the students should fight that instead of accepting it and trying to get around it with their personal resources

:shock:

You state "there is no need" yet you then immediately state the need!

This scenario is as old as time and has played out repeatedly throughout not only American history but world history.

If the students care about this, they should figure out a solution, not sit by paralyzed and complaining about the status-quo.

These students are clever and enterprising and there are plenty of low or no cost paths they could take to get this done. In fact, this would be a FABULOUS real-life lesson/exercise.

What? No. Organizing legal action is not "sitting around and complaining" - that is what they should be devoting their resources to, not creating a homegrown paper on their own dime. My guess is they can find someone to take this case pro bono or a nonprofit can fund it

But so far the students aren't claiming anything has actually been censored, they're just understandably concerned that it might be in the future.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why don't the students create their own "paper" and report/write as they see fit?

Because there is no need for them to do that, the student newspapers should not be subject to illegal censorship and the students should fight that instead of accepting it and trying to get around it with their personal resources

:shock:

You state "there is no need" yet you then immediately state the need!

This scenario is as old as time and has played out repeatedly throughout not only American history but world history.

If the students care about this, they should figure out a solution, not sit by paralyzed and complaining about the status-quo.

These students are clever and enterprising and there are plenty of low or no cost paths they could take to get this done. In fact, this would be a FABULOUS real-life lesson/exercise.

What? No. Organizing legal action is not "sitting around and complaining" - that is what they should be devoting their resources to, not creating a homegrown paper on their own dime. My guess is they can find someone to take this case pro bono or a nonprofit can fund it

But so far the students aren't claiming anything has actually been censored, they're just understandably concerned that it might be in the future.

NP. I'm not exactly sure what you're arguing here. They're concerned that the policy outlined by the recently issued memo is illegal and want it rescinded. Litigation is the normal way to deal with illegal government policies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Taylor is a master at taking one incident as an excuse to create a draconian policy that hurts kids to make his job easier

YES. This!

[Anonymous]

<1984> on live in MCPS!