Finally, I talked with Seva Gandhi and Annabel Taylor, co-chief editors of Walt Whitman High School's newspaper, The Black and White.

We were very shocked was our initial reaction just because all of these terms were very subjective depending on, you know, who's reading the article and how it's reflecting them.

So in this case, principals having the power of prior restraint, obviously they're not going to want to... our publications to publish articles that neg- negatively reflect them and the school or the community.

But, you know, these articles really serve as our, our role as whistleblowers in the community, um, and being able to get the word out about things that have occurred at our school that-

Mm-hmm.

Um, "This goes against years of legal precedent.

Um, I'll, I'll reverse the memo." Um, and what we're seeing is actually when this memo came out in March, um, advisors had, um, reached out to Dr.

Moran, asked him multiple times what's going on to no response, which is just pretty disappointing for us as students that, you know, a county that prides itself on transparency, um, is refusing to even acknowledge, apologize, anything about what is, looks very much to be against Maryland law or at least contradicts the New Voices Act.