That's nothing new for school publications. It's a sticky combination of "minors don't have full rights" and "it represents the school, therefore the school gets final say." The same way a business would have the right to restrict what their employees published when representing the company. Of course, it gets muddy when you factor in that a public school is a government entity, however this isn't a law or legal enforcement, it's a policy issue that impacts the running of what's essentially a government business entity. It's not really the same thing as legislated or police-enforced 1st ammendment restrictions.
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