My male high school journalism teacher taught me to write and most of my female English teachers gave me a love of literature that is one of the mainstays of my spiritual life to this day.

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The law goes into effect at the end of August, leading many teachers to go ahead and defriend their students, even as one journalism high school teacher questions whether it violates his First Amendment speech rights.

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Barnett's career in journalism started in high school in Arizona when the in-school program, Channel One News, selected him to join their annual 'Student Produced Week' in Los Angeles.

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Educated at Regent House Grammar School (from which he says he was "asked to leave") and Dundondald High School, his first break in journalism was as a trainee at the Newsletter newspaper in Northern Ireland.

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