Administrators pull Bettendorf school paper

BETTENDORF, Iowa (AP) - Administrators at Bettendorf High School have pulled copies of the student newspaper, The growl, off shelves because of an article that reportedly revealed confidential information about student behavior.

Bettendorf Community School District superintendent Theron Schutte says the article contained potentially libelous information about student violations of the school's conduct code. Schutte says the code specifies that students who use drugs or alcohol, on campus or off, violate school rules. He said the article contained student accounts of violations of that portion of the conduct code.

Schutte says the problem was not that students talked of their own violations of the conduct code, but because some of them were accusing others of violating the code.

Teacher Connie King, who serves as the paper's advisor, was unavailable for comment.

Copyright 2010 The Associated Press.