Silenced by ‘Climax’
A Battle for Student Press Freedom
Writing Becomes Weaponized: Censorship and Betrayal
When Writing Becomes a Weapon Against You
I don’t want to tell the story. But I have to tell it. To my former students, the editors at the school newspaper, and just as a captured spark of history — a document saying “yes, this did happen.”
That’s a principle reason why we write: the historical impulse.
I fear this story, however, shall become another removed piece of the Jenga Tower in education — poked out by people who allegedly, on paper, alas, should know better. I’ll let you judge the professionalism of the school administration last year during National Writing Month in November.
The objective for NaNoWriMo is clear:
Every story matters.
Let’s start writing yours.
But first, allow me to retreat a few months before NaNoWriMo. I was called into the principal’s office. This was becoming a “thing.” Not sure what to label or how to define such things.
Someone allegedly told the principal, an unnamed informer, that I had an essay published gaining attention. It was a humorous piece my wife and I co-wrote, aimed at adults — “If Sex Had…
