Letters to the Editor: LAUSD teacher Adriana Chavira should be commended for refusing to censor her student journalists, not suspended without pay. (via latimesopinion)
I thought the censoring of high school journalism was restricted primarily to red states, most notably the campus in Nebraska that recently shut down its newspaper after it reported that LGBTQ+ students exist.decision to suspend Adriana ChaviraI served as the associate editor of that school’s newspaper in my senior year in the 1980s when it was known as Birmingham High School, and it was a springboard for a 30-plus year career in journalism.
This librarian claimed that the reporting of her refusal to be vaccinated, which violated the LAUSD mandate for employees, was a violation of the federal privacy law known by its acronym HIPAA. My reporting specialty is healthcare, and I am amazed how often HIPAA is incorrectly cited. Furthermore, school libraries have been placed under relentless pressure from book banning activists in recent years. These activists are also often the same types hostile to fact-based journalism.Ron Shinkman, NorthridgeAs a former journalist, Chavira surely must know about the Supreme Court’s ruling in Hazelwood School District vs. Kuhlmeier. In 1988, it held that school newspapers can be censored by school officials for educational reasons.
Whether accuracy and timeliness in reporting are enough to overrule the medical privacy rights under HIPAA remain to be seen.Chavira should be applauded for standing up for her students’ right to publish another teacher’s name. That one act and the three-day suspension have hopefully taught her students about the right to free speech and what it might cost them to stick with the truth.
At a time when we are faced with massive teacher shortages, we should be honoring teachers like Chavira. I have no doubt that were he alive, Daniel Pearl himself would stand with her.
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