A publisher has a right to determine content. With that in mind, it would seem that, if a school acts as a publisher, it has the same right. And, in fact:
  • Summing up a significant, if not prevalent, view of the relationship between school newspapers and officials was the comment of a teacher described by the Student Press Law Center as a mentor for the Monona Grove editors: “A school newspaper is not public speech any more than classroom conversation is public speech. This is the principal’s paper — not the students’ paper — and he has every right to decide what goes into it.”