Principal fires heralded teacher for not-good-news articles

What do you do when you’re principal of a school whose newspaper and yearbook adviser with 34 years of experience in 3 states has been labeled the best in the country and whose students have won more than 175 national and state awards in one year?

Fire her, if you’re first-year Prosper, Texas High School principal John Burdett.

Her crime? Making the school look bad. Happy news only, Burdett demanded.

Lori Oglesbee-Petter was at the helm when articles about a canceled movie night and a change in the 10^th grade curriculum were cited for “making the school look bad.”

Additional editorials were banned.

Judge for yourself by going to http://www.splc.org/article/2018/05/prosper-high-school?utm_sq=frmz99wcbg&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=society+of+professional+journalists&utm_content=articles