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10/19/09
The anticipation grew for Old Mill High students Alex Sears and Julia James as they worked on the yearbook, eagerly waiting for their real love to start next semester - putting out the Patriot Echo school newspaper. 
Shelia Farmer — For The Capital
Old Mill High School Students Julia James and Alex Sears were the only students who signed on for the high school newspaper class this year with teacher Jen Tambelllini. But school officials decided that wasn't enough interest, becoming the first county school to drop its student newspaper.Find Us On Facebook
But that deadline may never come. Old Mill High School, which switched to an online publication last year to save money, this fall became the first county high school to drop its journalism classes and school newspaper. "I was very disappointed … now there's just a hole in my schedule," said James, a senior who signed up for the yearbook course so that she could write until the newspaper...
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Hooray! - 2009-10-25 10:32:48
Hooray for the public school's embrace of the merchant mentality. If they had more educators running thins instead of businesspersons, then they might remember why Horace Mann pushed for public schools in the first place: a more democratic nation. By eliminating the school paper, Old Mill (my alma mater - ugh) has announced loud and clear that it's priority supplying Walmart with employees rather than our nation with thinkers.
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