“Campbell High School Story Flap Selling its Students Short” By Andy Towne
Campbell High School story flap selling its students short
By ANDY TOWNE
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Litchfield teacher resigns amid short story controversy
On June 18, the School Board of Campbell High School in Litchfield, New Hampshire decided to remove four short stories from the “Love/Gender/Family” unit of an English class. Early last week, Kathleen Reilly resigned from her position as English department head, citing a desire to teach elementary school in a different district. Reilly, who had taught at the high school [...]
Suppression of Gay/Straight Alliances on HS Campuses
Check out 2007 YFEN Film Contest Winner Gay/Straight Alliance By Jamie Li Students have been forming Gay/Straight Alliances that aim to create a safe, welcoming and accepting school environment for all students, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression. Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender students as well as straight students can address issues of harassment, discrimination, and bias based on [...]
Internet Filters in schools and libraries
Have any of your internet searches at school ever been blocked? That is because of a law called the Children Internet Protection Act, passed in Dec. 2000, which requires schools and libraries receiving federal e-rate funding for Internet connections to filter out certain types of objectionable online content. CIPA survived a challenge in the Supreme Court, and today schools and [...]
Hemingway, King, Sedaris kicked out of New Hampshire high school classes
A couple of recent censorship attempts at public libraries have been squashed, but yesterday a group of parents succeeded in banning four short stories from high school classrooms in Litchfield, New Hampshire. School Superintendent Elaine F. Cutler stated that stories by authors including Stephen King, David Sedaris, and Ernest Hemingway will be removed from the “Love/Gender/Family” unit of a [...]
Report Card: HEALTH
GRADE: B – The push to teach abstinence-only education landed Health Education (primarily sexual education) in an abysmal place. As we have explained on the NCAC website, government funding-based mandates to provide a narrow and limited curriculum on a topic, such as human sexuality, amounts to censorship. Essentially, the abstinence only curriculum left out essentially information about contraception and sexually [...]
An interview with West Bend library board member on calls for book censorship
Kids’ Right to Read’s Jamie Chosak interviewed West Bend library board member Mary Reilly-Kliss about the book challenges in West Bend. Here’s an excerpt: Kids’ Right to Read Project: On June 2, 2009, West Bend’s library board voted to keep the books where they are. What was your experience of this meeting and how did you feel upon hearing this [...]
Interview with Mary Reilly-Kliss
Mary Reilly-Kliss is a retired reading/language arts teacher, having spent 33 years working with young adults in grades 7-12. She was on the West Bend library board for 3 years. For the past year she served as co-secretary on the board. Mary also works at Fireside Books and Gifts, once part of the Little Professor chain, Fireside is an independent bookstore proudly serving West Bend for over 25 years.
Ward Churchill Redux
Even though a jury has now determined that Ward Churchill, a tenured professor at the University of Colorado, was fired as a result of his controversial views and in violation of his constitutional rights, his case remains controversial.
Libel Tourism: Taking a vacation from your First Amendment rights
The New York Times weighed in Tuesday on "libel tourism" and advocated for the Senate bill that would protect U.S. citizens’ First Amendment rights from the more stringent laws of other countries, notably England. Senators Arlen Specter and Joe Lieberman recently introduced the Free Speech Protection Act of 2008 in the U.S. Senate. A bi-partisan effort prompted primarily by concern [...]
Confronting Censorship with a Flowchart
The ACLU and the ACLU of Tennessee filed suit in Federal Court against two Tennessee school districts, charging the schools are unconstitutionally blocking students from accessing online information about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues. NCAC was involved in an initial response and has been following the case. Now see the story in flowchart form: See it in full effect [...]
Free Speech Groups Criticize Wisconsin Library Board Dismissals
NCAC criticized the dismissal of four members of a library board for refusing to remove controversial books from the young adult section of the library in West Bend, Wisconsin. The controversy began in February when two patrons complained that the library’s young adult section includes both fiction and non-fiction about gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues.
Knoxville to Students: No LGBT Websites
In February 2009, NCAC and the ACLU of Tennessee jointly responded to a situation at a Knoxville, TN high school where internet filters are currently blocking constitutional protected material on the web, specifically sites that provide political and educational content around LGBT issues. The censorship was discovered by Andrew Emmitt, a senior at Central High School: When I found out [...]
Internet Free Expression Timeline
1958: The Internet (a collection of interconnected computer networks, linked by copper wires, fiber-optic cables, wireless connections, etc.) is pioneered by U.S. Department of Defense to safeguard against the possibility of communications being intercepted in the event of a nuclear attack.
Youth Voices Uncensored
On March 28, 2009 more than 75 young people from around New York City came together to share films with each other and discuss the role of grassroots media in advocating for the changes they want to see in society.
Let’s Talk About Sex: A Discussion on the Constitutionality and Effectiveness of Government-Funded Abstinence-Only Education Programs
The panelists will speak on matters including gender stereotyping in the programs, the suppression of information mandated by the program, the impact on LGBT students, and the human right to sexuality education.
Art Now: Film, Video, TV
Art Now Home | About Art Now | Artists Respond to the Political Present | Approaching the Aftermath & Commemorating Sept. 11 | Related Sites & Resources | Contact Art Now Artists Respond to the Political Present Events | Dance | Film, Video, TV | Internet & Electronica | Music | Theater, Performance Art & Protest | Visual Art [...]
Art Now: Theater, Performance Art and Protest
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Regarding The Pain Of Others
NCAC's Svetlana Mintcheva discusses images of atrocity, censorship and contextualization with Clifford Chanin (National September 11 Memorial and Museum), curator/activist Leora Kahn, and war correspondent Sydney Schanberg. February 4th at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City.
O’CONNOR and STROBL v. WASHBURN UNIVERSITY
Plaintiffs-appellants Dr. Thomas O'Connor and Andrew Strobl filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Washburn University, the Washburn Board of Regents, and Washburn President Dr. Jerry B. Farley individually and in his official capacity, claiming a statue placed on the Washburn campus violated their rights under the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. The statue in question is entitled Holier Than Thou and depicts the head and upper torso of what appears to be a Roman Catholic bishop.