This week, news broke that the administration at Amherst Regional Middle School would not distribute the March issue of a student newspaper called The Chestnut Street Journal. The issue reports the findings of a student-conducted poll about perceptions of the school's mission statement, disciplinary procedures and student input in the school community.

School officials have justified banning the issue by calling the students' research and statistical methods "flawed."

Are school officials overreacting? Download the issue in question and see for yourself.

Note: In the version of the publication that we're offering, we've deleted pictures and blacked out names that identify individual students. No other changes or modifications have been made.