Illustration of burning flag on cover of high school newspaper seals its fate

[Oeditpus Rex]

Shasta High published its last issue of the Volcano, the student newspaper, before the end of classes last week with an image on the front page of a student burning the American flag and an editorial inside defending the practice.

"The paper's done," said Milan Woollard, Shasta High principal. "There is not going to be a school newspaper next year."

Shasta had been looking at cutting the paper already -- funds are tight as the school anticipates receiving fewer state dollars from Sacramento this fall, Woollard said.

"This cements that decision," he said.

http://www.redding.com/news/2008/jun/10/shasta-high-volcano-erupts/

[XemaSab]

1. K&R for teh penlight

:patriot:

[mcctatas]

2. WOW....

to call that an overreaction is an understatement!

[Oeditpus Rex]

4. It's a convenient excuse

Shasta had been looking at cutting the paper already -- funds are tight as the school anticipates receiving fewer state dollars from Sacramento this fall, Woollard said.


Similar thing happened to my community college newspaper. Every program was under a microscope after Prop 13. In 1979 we published an April Fool issue, parts of which were rather... unfortunate. (We also did an outstanding job of covering the administration, once finding the board of trustees in violation of the Brown Act and scooping the local daily.)

When the budget cuts were rolled out the next year, journalism was cut 41 percent while most other programs were cut 10 percent. Two years after that, the paper ceased to exist.

[Fox Mulder]

3. That's bullshit.

[gullwing300]

5. "AH FAWT FER YER RIGHTS, YOU PINKO COMMIE FAGS"

"JUS DON'T TRY TA USE EM"

[HughMoran]

6. School Principal "I'm a reactionary dolt with no sense of balance"

What an idiot.

[Tunkamerica]

7. No surprise that the first picture of him on Google

is from:

<http://republican.assembly.ca.gov/members/a2/index.aspx?Page=PHOTO>

[Journeyman]

8. SCOTUS has ruled high school student newspapers have limited First Amendment rights. . .

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&navby=case&vol=484&invol=260