s first graduation ceremony last spring. Sauer says she ran into some trouble when she submitted her speech to the school's administration for review; the school principal unfairly called the speech "inappropriate." After rewriting her speech, Kniss was able to give a speech at graduation (Sauer 1). Kniss says she was told, "...if I deviated from the speech at all the mike would be cut off." (1-2). Patricia Mark, the superintendent of Victor Valley Union High School District, didn't find anything wrong with the first copies of Kniss's speech. Mark thought her speech was inspirational and said, "it may have been made into more than it is." (2). As is the case of most censorship. No doubt, Mark was referring to the press making it into "more than it is", although the case is often reversed. Many times the censoring group make these situation into "more than it is". Many times students get censored as books do. Say certain words, refer to moral and religious issues, or wear certain clothes and watch how quickly the iron hand of censorship strikes. The First Amendment protects freedom of expression, but Hazelwood contradicts this for student. So only in certain states does this Amendment apply to students. In the other forty-four states, it is a right allotted only to adults. Although many schools say that censorship takes place for the good of the students, censorship is often a means of keeping the appearance of the school esteemed. Mark Goodman, executive director of the SPLC, says, "school administrators seem increasingly concerned today with good public relations above all else." (Connecticut 2). Such concerns are made in many schools across the country. What would happen if a school printed something defaming about a business that gave them funds? Obviously, if this were to happen, the school would be frowned upon, and possibly lose that sponsorship. So logically, a school would not permit the newspaper to print an editorial ab...
