Some parents are protesting the "sex" edition of the student newspaper at Winnacunnet High School. Several said they were especially offended by a photograph of two women kissing under the headline, "Why men love women who love women," a quiz question about anal sex, and an interview with an unnamed custodian who said he had found a vibrator in the girls' shower.
There's a bunch of stuff about angry parents who are upset about the newspaper, administrators whose lawyers, I'm sure, have told them not to say anything too specific about the issue, and the faculty adviser, who defended her students' editorial decisions, of course. Whenever there's a controversy about something in a high school paper, the advisor always defends the editorial decisions of his or her students. And then, there are the students, who didn't want to shock people (olf course they did) but to educate them:
The student paper's editor in chief, Katie McCay, and managing editor, Lisa McManus, said they wanted to educate students, nearly half of whom are already having sexual intercourse, according to a 2005 Youth Risk Behavior Survey at the high school. The true or false quiz was particularly enlightening, they said.
"As we put the pages on the table, the staff said, 'Oh my goodness, that's false? I had no idea,'" McCay said. "This is definitely stuff kids didn't know about."
They also got a lot of feedback about the article on lesbians, she said.
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