10 STUNNING DISPUTES OVER FREE SPEECH BETWEEN STUDENTS, FACULTY AND ADMINISTRATORS“Throughout their high school years, students are often told to follow their dreams and pursue what they love,” the article states. They reportedly warned the student newspaper not to publish the story until administrators could take a look. Education Code section 48907 states that California’s public school students have the right to freedom of speech and the press, but publishing content that is “obscene, libelous, or slanderous” is prohibited. Lodi Unified School District ultimately relented and allowed the article to be published in its intended form. As for Fink, in an interview with The Record, she said school officials went overboard and “they shouldn’t have made this into a deep situation, it didn’t have to be like that.

Source: Fox News May 03, 2019 17:37 UTC