It is bulls***t that the school officials did not know that they would offend the students by "scrubbing" their quotes. I worked in a governmental agency for many years and the one thing you learn early on is that at the very least every student is allowed a minimum of due process before action is taken toward them. It appears that no due process was given to the students. The officials could have denied the inclusion of the quotes but such an action would only have been allowed after a process was given. Then the students could have appealed the denial and publicized the denial to the greater community. Of course, the school officials did not want that and so just went ahead and scrubbed without process.