High School Nixes Yearbook Photo Of Student With Gun (NH)

[Devonai]

I'm talking this up with my neighbors and co-workers. Hopefully the school will relent.

 

[AZRickD]

That's a bromide.

They have the right to make all sorts of editorial decisions. The question is whether we will give them a little pain for their trouble.

I vote for a little pain.

Are you going to let them get away with villifying a sport that happens to utilize a gun, and hence, villify the RKBA in general?

Step up to the plate, man.

Rick

 

[Andrew Rothman]

While I think it was a stupid decision, I don't understand why the yearbook staff shouldn't have the right to decide the content of their yearbook.

That would make sense. But, unfortunately, courts have long held that for school publications, the school administration is the de jure "publisher," and thus may restrict content in any way it wishes, in the same way that a newspaper publisher could tell his editor-in-chief what to print or not print.

The constitutional rights (or lack thereof) of minors in general and of public school students in particular is very interesting and complex, but it's pretty cut and dried when it comes to the student "press": They ain't got any.

So any leverage will come from embarassing and publicly pressuring the school, not from a favorable court ruling.

 

[tulsamal]

While I think it was a stupid decision, I don't understand why the yearbook staff shouldn't have the right to decide the content of their yearbook.

Because it isn't THEIR yearbook. They are just the techs and clerks who actually put it together. The people who buy it, have their friends sign it, and then keep it for the rest of their lives are the OWNERS of the yearbook. I don't know or remember who put together MY senior yearbook but I do know we got to decide what we wanted to put in there.

Gregg

 

[Andrew Rothman]

That doesn't make sense, Gregg. The yearbook advisor and principal are making the call, not the student body.

And, being a former high school yearbook geek, I'll tell you that of course the yearbook staff decides what goes in the yearbook. How else? Have a school assembly to vote on each page's layout?

 

[AZRickD]

This is a silly diversion to this thread.

A pitcher (the principal) has every right to throw a pitch. The batter (gunnie activists) have not only a right, but an obligation to hit that m***** f***** out of the park.

It doesn't matter if they have a "right" to edit one of our bretheren out of the yearbook.

The question is, are we going to put some heat on these PC twits?

Sheesh. Too much contemplation of one's belly button. S*** or get off the pot.

Rick

 

[Shootcraps]

It's not just the yearbook advisor and principal's call. It's also Josten's. In their contract to do the yearbook, they have final say over what they will publish.

I disagree with it, and we're winning 56-42.

 

[gunsmith]

right on AZ Rick! right on!

thank you for putting the phone # of those pc twits on here,I've hardly been home this month and am writing this response from Nevada, I'll be back in frisco and heating up the phone lines on monday!

S*** or get off the pot.

Amen!

 

[AZRickD]

I left a voice-mail on principal Jim Elefantaaaaaay's phone.

I e-mailed the rest.

Rick

 

[El Guero]

I didn't even take any senior pictures with my trap gun in High school (just last year), but out high school yearbook always had at least a half page or maybe even a whole page for the trap team. We always took much glee in getting some good gun pictures in the yearbook.

I do kind of feel bad for the principal in this situation. Lets face it, to be an administrator in a school these days has to require a very open mind and some skills at toeing the line. I'm sure the guy worried that he would get calls about the picture, and to try and save himself some trouble, he went and created a whole lot more for himself.

 

[Nightfall]

Douglass said assistant principals and teachers took away his gun magazines during a lunch period last year.

No unauthorized learning or subjects of interest in school! The antis are working on them when they're young.

 

[spartacus2002]

Is this where our society is going? People are losing all ability to reason and be rational. So-called political-correctness is becoming dogma and is stifling free thought.

These school administrators are the product of an education culture that prides itself on teaching students what to feel, not how to think.

And now they are passing the same blissninny instruction on to our kids....

 

[Nathaniel Firethorn]

The story made the "Tounge Tied" column on Foxnews today.

- pdmoderator

 

[tulsamal]

And, being a former high school yearbook geek, I'll tell you that of course the yearbook staff decides what goes in the yearbook. How else? Have a school assembly to vote on each page's layout?

I was a yearbook photographer so I know a little about how this works too. In our yearbook the seniors were in the first section. Each one had their "official" picture. And then they had an unofficial picture that they got to chose. If they wanted to put in a picture of themselves playing tennis for the school team, that was fine. (We would probably try to talk them out of that one since there was a sports section and we could just put it in there.) A picture with their car, their dog, whatever. Sounds like what was happening in these pictures.

The point is that the school _asked_ these students for some personal pictures that showed them doing something important _to them._ But then they said no when a student showed he liked to participate in an Olympic sport! Just a little too PC for me.

Gregg

 

[ilcylic]

S Roper: "We're going to put all of the photographs of the black students at the back of the yearbook."

Would you still agree with the right of the yearbook staff to make "editorial decisions"?

-Ogre

 

[txgolfer45]

The school is just plain wrong. They need to go back and learn their history lessons. They obviously failed miserably.

Scott