School Daze

June, 1988

In 1983, Cathy Kuhlmeier, a Hazel-wood, Missouri, high school student and editor of the school paper, picked up the May 13 issue of Spectrum and found two of the six pages missing. It took some investigation before she identified principal Robert Reynolds as the person who had killed two articles before the paper went to press. What did he kill? Stories about teenage pregnancy and the impact of divorce on Hazelwood students.Kuhlmeier went to court, charging that Reynolds had violated her First A...