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"I understand that there's an inclination to want to protect a tradition at the school. But the First Amendment is a longer and a better-established tradition," said Frank LoMonte, executive director of the Student Press Law Center in Arlington, Va.
"You are not afraid to write about the hard and sensitive issues. You take risks on editorial pages — bravo!" judges wrote last month in a student journalism contest, when the Playwickian earned a top award.
"Detractors will argue that the word is used with all due respect. But the offensiveness of a word cannot be judged by its intended meaning, but by how it is received," read an Oct. 27 editorial in the Playwickian, backed by 14 of 21 staff members. (An equally well-written op-ed voiced the dissenting group's opinion.)
In response, the nonprofit Student Press Law Center and other groups bought a rival ad detailing the "Freedom of Expression" students enjoy under state and federal law.  That ad is set to appear in the edition due out Wednesday, although the alumnus pulled the pro-Redskins ad late last week, McGoldrick said.
"People are (saying), 'Just give in. It doesn't really matter.' But it's a huge deal, that we're being forced to say something that we don't want to," said McGoldrick, a 16-year-old junior.
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"It's exactly what we tell young people in the abstract we want them to do: use their voices in positive ways to bring about social change. And yet when they tried to do it in practice, the school slapped them down," he said. "That's a bad place for an educator to be."
His approximately 2,600 students must each publish an article in the Playwickian for course credit. He doesn't think anyone should be barred from writing about the Neshaminy Redskins, especially, he said, when the harm alleged is open to debate.
McGee called the editors' motives "valiant," but said the dispute pits the rights of one group of students against another.
At Neshaminy — where the welcome sign sometimes reads: "Everybody do the Redskin Rumble" and the football team is 11-1 with a shot at its second state title— news editors had pledged to stop using the term "Redskins" as far back as 2001, but sometimes wavered. This year's staff decided to take it on full-force.
But a looming clash of cultures at a suburban Philadelphia football powerhouse presents a new twist on the usual First Amendment fight.
School officials had also ordered the Playwickian to run a full-page, $200 ad — submitted by a Class of '72 alumnus — celebrating the "Redskin" name, McGoldrick said.
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Editors of a student newspaper are getting heat from school officials after banning the word "Redskins" — their mascot at Neshaminy, a high school named for the creek where the Lenape Indians once lived.
"I don't think that's been decided at the national level, whether that word is or is not (offensive). It's our school mascot," said McGee, who said he's consulted with the school solicitor and others. "I see it as a First Amendment issue running into another First Amendment issue."
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Classic court cases involving students and free speech usually involve teens trying to push the limits of provocative, political or even profane language.
Both the student law center and the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania believe school districts are on shaky ground if they try to compel students to use a given word,Cheap NFL Jerseys Wholesale, especially one the students deem offensive.