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How to End Self-Censorship in US High Schools

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The Washington Post|February 4, 2023

Colleges continue to cancel controversial speakers and acquiesce to unreasonable student demands. In a recent poll by College Pulse, 80% of students reported that they self-censored. In a much-read New York Times op-ed article, Emma Camp, a senior at the University of Virginia, wrote: “I welcomed an environment that champions intellectual diversity and rigorous disagreement. Instead … students of all political persuasions hold back — in class discussions, in friendly conversations, on social media — from saying what we really think.”

But fewer Americans may know that the problem plagues high schools as well.

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