About

The Growler’s primary obligation is to inform its readers about events in the school and community and of issues of national or international importance which directly or indirectly affect the school population.  This publication, while serving as a training ground for future journalists as part of the Hancock High School curriculum, recognizes all rights and responsibilities under the First Amendment.  Operating as a limited public forum, student editors will apply professional standards and ethics for decision making as they take on the responsibility for content and production of the newspaper.  While the student staff encourages constructive criticism of any part of the newspaper, authority for content rests in the hands of the student members of the journalism staff.  Students will not publish material considered to be legally unprotected speech, or libel, obscenity, material disruption of the educational process, copyright infringement, or unwarranted invasion of privacy.