Three out of four high school students upon having the the exact text of the First Amendment explained to them think that it goes "too far" in protecting free speech. Just over half of students think that newspapers should be allowed to publish freely with government approval of stories.
"Schools don't do enough to teach the First Amendment. Students often don't know the rights it protects," Linda Puntney, executive director of the Journalism Education Association, said in the report. "This all comes at a time when there is decreasing passion for much of anything. And, you have to be passionate about the First Amendment."
The partners in the project, including organizations of newspaper editors and radio and television news directors, share a clear advocacy for First Amendment issues."
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