Press Censorship Essay, Research Paper

There are many kinds of censorship within our school system. Such as press

Censorship, we aren’t aloud to express freely among our school?s newspaper nor

yearbook. I believe that we should be able to write anything that the student

wants to see on the newspaper. Equivalent to the yearbook, students should be

able to have the right tosay whatever they want for a SENIOR quote. Freedom of

the press ensures Americans great freedom of choice in what they can read and

see. This should also apply to our community public schools, we should be given

the right inside school just as much as outside. Its like a fellow classmate

said today in class, "Its like we are not in America anymore when we step

onto school grounds." I believe in this point that he made because it is

just like that. Our freedoms are limited in a way to where we can barely express

ourselves within the school newspapers and yearbook. One type of publication

that has never been given First Amendment protection is obscenity. This is one

thing that I can agree with; certain things are absolutely immoral and

inappropriate, such as pornography and foul language to an extent. However, the

rules and regulations of our schools newspaper and yearbook need to be a little

more just, to fit our rights of press. I would like our school to be among the

first to allow the students almost every right to print whatever they would like

to write about. But, not every freedom is absolute…. If they were, our school

system would be in total chaos.