School seizes student newspapers

WOOSTER, Ohio -- School officials in a district where the policy is to allow students freedom of speech confiscated thousands of copies of the high school newspaper after learning it contained an article in which students talked about drinking alcohol at a party.

Student editors said the article quoted the daughter of a school board member saying she had consumed alcohol, and they believe that was the reason about 4,500 copies of the bi-weekly Wooster Blade were seized Thursday.

James Jackson, the principal at Wooster High School, confirmed Saturday that the papers was taken after a teacher told him about a possible confidentiality problem with the story.

Federal law forbids naming students who face disciplinary action without parents' permission.