Trump Slogans Censored Out Of New Jersey High School Yearbook


The left wing devils don’t miss a single opportunity to blot out the powerful name of TRUMP wherever they find it.
This was the case at a New Jersey high school, where the staff wasted no time selectively air brushing Trump references off the shirts of their students in the annual yearbook.
Syracuse.com reports, students & parents are accusing this school of blatant censorship.
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One student told NJ.com that he wore a navy blue T-shirt that said “Trump Make America Great Again” for his portrait, but the publication instead appeared to Photoshop the president’s name and campaign slogan out of the photo. Instead, his shirt appeared plain without any words.
“We didn’t have a dress code,” Grant Berardo, a 17-year-old junior at Wall Township High School in Wall, N.J., told the publication.
The seniors (boys) have to wear black jackets and ties, but the underclassmen don’t have a dress code.

Trump Quote BLANKED OUT

According to the New York Post, a junior classmate of Berardo also had “Trump” and MAGA in small print removed from a fleece vest and a third student, the freshman class president, was surprised to see her yearbook quote left blank after choosing a Trump phrase:
I like thinking big. If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.

Selective Censorship

Joseph Berardo, Grant’s father, told the newspaper that he’s furious because the 2016 election was the first his son had taken an interest in. 
He also complained that other students’ attire wasn’t censored, including photos of shirts with images of the New Jersey Devils, Led Zeppelin, Reagan-Bush and, in past yearbooks, President Barack Obama.
I don’t think there was a deep-seated plot here, but I think there’s a yearbook committee and a yearbook adviser, and somewhere in the mix someone or several people decided to censor three students, Berardo told the Post.
The fact that the committee found it OK to censor the president’s name or anything that wasn’t offensive is just wrong.
Wall superintendent Cheryl Dyer told parents that the school is
investigating an allegation of censorship and the possible violation of First Amendment rights in the high school yearbook this year, according to NJ.com.
She said the school district was not involved in the alleged alterations.
Two parents have made me aware … the attire of their children was altered and that comments or quotes were not published, the letter said.
In all of the instances that I am aware of, references to and support of President Trump were removed. 

Reprint Demanded

Joseph Berardo is demanding a reissue of the yearbooks to all students, along with a letter explaining why freedom of speech rights were allegedly violated.
It should be used as a teaching moment related to the First Amendment in civil discourse, he told the Post.
He said he’s scheduled for a meeting with Principal Rosaleen Sirchio and yearbook advisor Susan Parsons on Monday.
This is not going away with just with an apology, he told the New York Daily News.
Past yearbook controversies include a Utah school that edited out visible tattoos and digitally added sleeves to tank tops and a Colorado student who was told her racy senior portrait outfit was “inappropriate.” In other instances, students and parents complain about content that gets published, such as a Georgia student who slipped in rap lyrics via a chemically coded quote.

 What is your take on this incident?

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