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Yet another high school publication takes on, um, sex, so yet another high school principal considers implementing a policy of prior approval:

"Electron" editor-in-chief Ricci Warwick said an article on the subject of sex wasn't meant to increase circulation but to educate students on STDs and contraception, and to dispel some myths around school.

"One in particular was if a girl was on top, she couldn't get pregnant," Warwick said. "We've had 17 pregnant girls in our school from the past year. So, someone obviously isn't speaking to them."

[. . .]

"My concerns have nothing to do with the topic. Sex and sexually transmitted diseases are appropriate topics for high school students," said Franklin High School Principal Craig McCaffrey.

McCaffrey's beef with the article was that it didn't discuss abstinence or include resources for more information.

This seems like a pretty low-key controversy so far. But if the prior-approval policy is implemented, all the usual suspects will show up to make martyrs of the student journalists.

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