A story on a teen porn worker could cost a high school journalism teacher her job
Bailey Kirkeby, second from right, is pursuing a profile for her high school newspaper of a classmate who works in the porn industry. She and her classmates are fighting to prevent their school district from viewing an advance copy. By Isaac Stanley-Becker Isaac Stanley-Becker Reporter based in the U.K. Email Bio Follow April 25 at 6:09 AM The whispers wound their way through the hallways of Bear Creek High School in Stockton, Calif.
Now, however, the story is encountering stiff resistance from school administrators. The officials are threatening to dismiss the newspaper’s faculty adviser, who was recently named educator of the year by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists, if she doesn’t submit the article to them for prior review.
“I tell the kids, ‘Free speech isn’t free, is it?’” she said in an interview with The Washington Post. The prospect that she could lose her job — one she has held for more than three decades — brings her to tears, said Duffel, 57. In 2011, a Bear Creek principal, who later resigned, sought prior review of a story about a set of master keys that he had misplaced, costing the district “thousands of dollars in rekeying costs,” according to the Record.
Duffel attended high school in the district, at Tokay High in Lodi, Calif., after moving to the Central Valley from Canada in 1978. She majored in journalism and English at the University of the Pacific, where her roommate was editor in chief of the campus newspaper, the Pacifican, and coaxed her to get involved. She went to work for the district in 1986 and began at Bear Creek when it was founded five years later.But her future employment stands in doubt.
The letter further warned her that she could be held personally liable in any claims arising from publication.
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