Thanks to all for your outpouring of support for Lyman High School Journalism and their fight against yearbook censorship. The short summary is WE WON!
Lyman Journalism @LymanJournalism
11 May 2022
Incredibly proud of the Greyhound yearbook staff and students from all over SCPS for speaking out against censorship and speaking up for themselves! Also, unbelievably grateful to SCPS school board for their unanimous support tonight! We stopped the stickers! 🎉
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The community support at tonight’s school board meeting was truly humbling. Students from Lyman, students from other SCPS schools, parents, educators all turned out to speak in support. Even the “Mom’s for Liberty” rep said, “Let them have their book.”
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In the end, the school board voted unanimously to overrule the superintendent and admin. No content will be covered or censored. Small disclaimer stickers will be added to the yearbook to indicate that the pictured content was not a school sanctioned event.
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The school board spoke out very strongly that this whole situation was ridiculous and not in the best interests of the students. I would personally like to thank the school board for advocating so strongly for our students and for voting their conscience over expedience.
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All in all, a great night and a huge win for Lyman students. It’s unfortunate that they had to have a civics lesson rather than simply being able to celebrate their yearbook. But here we are.

May 11, 2022 · 2:54 AM UTC

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Replying to @hal_pomeranz
They’ll keep that fire and lesson forever I bet. Absolutely great.