The air, is stagnant, but wait you smell something. You smell, strife, fear, hatred, and that's it nothing else. A civil war is forming between the voices of the student body and the administration, just recently reaching the boiling point. A single grain, can tip the scales, bringing chaos upon the student voice.
Censorship, destroying the foundations of practicing the freedom of speech that is practiced by many outside of school, especially through media such as blogs, facebook and etc. When students need to voice their opinions, we do not stand on top of cafeteria tables and give out speeches to the student body, we do not do voice out school issues at assemblies, only student parliament and the paper can become outlets. When a regular student needs to voice an opinion, what is better then for it to be read by everyone. To be read in the Action Central. The publication of anonymous articles is an example.
Anonymous articles, especially those that target a single group of people, a platform of bullying as seen by the administration have become infamous in recent Central history. Targeting an entire generation, and a group of people recently last month. However, many new authors are growing past the stigma that voicing an opinion needs to be harsh and rough. With many articles produced recently by centrals students, which can be easily found by alternatives means (facebook), produced with great care and research, as you know have been censored.
However, these articles are not anonymous as you may think, the authors were willing to stand by their entitled opinion and produced a name for themselves, yet they were still taken away for being too provocative to the schools students. An article that positively states that concerns of the school, can be heard without fear (George Poppy). Another merely expressed a hard question, that hundreds of students have been asking, providing evidence and support about the issue of backpacks and the library (Justin Steinburg).
Partially, on the fault of both sides, conflict has been created
*IN WORKING PROGRESS
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