The California legislature and governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law a bill protecting journalism teachers from angry school administrators who want to punish the teachers for things that their students said.
This is a good step for teachers in California, now they can’t be fired for not censoring their students when there is nothing to censor. The administration can no longer intimidate students by holding their advisors’ jobs over their heads.
Students now are too afraid to publish articles that aren’t so controversial because they don’t want to get in trouble or get their advisors in trouble.
Only two other states have placed this law into effect, Kansas and Colorado. Even if other states have laws protecting their advisors’, none have such extensive laws like the said three states.
The rest of the 47 states should take a clue from these three states and start applying better laws into their legislature for high school advisors and high school students as well.
Emily Baugh
Announcements Editor
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