Explain the significance of the Supreme Court decision Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier.

The effect of this ruling hinges on what a judge would
define as "legitimate pedagogical reason".  I was in high school and writing for the
newspaper when this ruling came out, and we had an issue at our school where the
Principal wanted to censor out stories that dealt with topics they felt were too
controversial, such as abortion or teen drinking and drug
use.

My journalism adviser threatened to resign over it, as
he felt it was a first amendment right, and that this was not a pedagogical issue, but a
personal one for the Principal.  The Principal argued that since the newspaper was
funded with public dollars, the same rules as a private newspaper did not apply, and the
concerns of parents who did not want to fund stories of that nature were valid.  In the
end, the School Board used Hazelwood as a reason to back the
principal and my adviser resigned.

I think the practical
result of the ruling was that more and more schools simply do not have school newspapers
or journalism classes.