Why is MCPS censoring student newspapers?
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Anonymous
| Has the full text of Moran's memo been published anywhere? |
Anonymous
That's a careful way of saying that Taylor's new rule hasn't been tested yet. It will be, when some dumb principal censors their student newspaper. |
Anonymous
You should care. This guy is trampling programs, schools, and civil rights. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
+1 Yes, Taylor responsible as Supt. But Moran sounds like the author. Moran gets into lots of controversies, that's for sure. |
Anonymous
He’ll be gone in two years max. |
Anonymous
And who told Moran to do it? Hmmm, I wonder... |
Anonymous
Yes kids can write all sorts of things and self publish which is what many already do on SM. But the point of the school newspaper is an educational one — kids are learning investigative journalism. Taylor and Moran are impinging on the educational value of the program by censoring that work. But a larger point is that there are already teachers providing guidance to the newspaper writers -/ inserting admin is just another stupid layer of McPS bureaucracy where we are paying lots of people to do things other than teaching. I’d rather have fewer APs and more people in the classroom rather than endlessly creating more make-work for the administrators. |
Anonymous
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Taylor is a small-minded, tight-fisted, table-pounding superintendent, who goes after anything, large or small, that gets in his way.
What will be his Waterloo? |
Anonymous
| Absolutely appalling that anyone is framing this as students "paralyzed and complaining" gmafb you disgusting pos |
Anonymous
+5000 Exactly. Teachers are providing the education so when students go out into the REAL WORLD then they can better understand the nuances of what journalists face in regard to censorship. School administrators should not be an adversarial experience when it comes to learning. What a grave injustice these students are experiencing. Corruption at the core. What I do hope these budding journalists develop is a strong sense of ethics and use that to write the most effective evidence-based expose on their experience. Let’s show these men in their high castles what true investigative journalism looks like. Or do we need to remind Taylor of what happened to the last superintendent? The truth always comes out. It’s concerning that the censorship isn’t over a nationally recognized, but sensitive issue, but rather, the fear of exposing the what lies behind our own walls. Why are you afraid of the children Taylor? What are you hiding? Real leaders don’t act like you do. |
Anonymous
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Anyone suggesting these students are "complaining and doing nothing" is so unbelievably full of it.
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Anonymous
| The only reason to censor the media is to try to control the narrative, and manage a cover-up. |
Anonymous
Yes |
Anonymous
Where? |