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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

The Educated Reporter: Banning journalists from public schools.

The Educated Reporter: Banning journalists from public schools.

Banning journalists from public schools.

Principals and superintendents and PR folks have been getting more zealous in their quest to “control the message” by making sure their employees do not talk to the press and keeping journalists out of schools. But one reporter’s distressed query to me recently took the cake: Her superintendent wanted to ban the media from entering schools when children are present.

God forbid we see students learning.

Down the road I will get into more