High School Yearbook Statements Disturb Parents

[LuvNewcastle]

http://beta.news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/high-school-yearbook-snafus-anger-parents-170609074.html


High school yearbooks are supposed to enshrine one's happy youthful memories forever. Unfortunately, quite a few parents and students opened up their yearbooks with a gasp of horror this year to discover inappropriate quotes, photos and a politically inflammatory list instead of the usual feel-good fare. Let's hope everyone takes the summer to cool off.
In Little Rock, Arkansas, for instance, the 2010-2011 yearbook at Russellville Middle School lists the "5 worst people of all time." Students listed former President George W. Bush and Bush's vice president, Dick Cheney, right after Adolph Hitler, Osama Bin Laden and Charles Manson.
Superintendent Randall Williams asked the yearbook printing company to cover the list with pieces of tape, but many parents aren't mollified.
"I think it's just hard to explain, and I've talked to the sponsor and she is very very very upset about it. That she didn't pay any attention to that particular part of that particular page," he told the local Fox affiliate. "I think she maybe just scanned the whole page and went on."

[XemaSab]

1. Shit, we had a kid smoking weed in my HS yearbook

:P

[Occulus]

2. They're only upset because today's young people are tomorrow's historians.

This was a peek into how history will judge Duhbya and Tricky Dick II, and they don't like it.

Tough titty, said the kitty.

[Horse with no Name]

3. I'd venture to say that if Obama was at the top of that list

that there wouldn't be an issue. The parents would be proud.

[seabeyond]

4. i would also venture to say, du would be in an uproar. nt

[dflprincess]

5. I'd venture to say that there are parents who are proud of this

but they aren't getting any press attention.

[TlalocW]

6. Hell...

I'm impressed they know who Manson and Hitler are.

TlalocW

[vard28]

7. I see no problem here

When my kid was in the fourth grade he wrote a whole story about how bad Bush and Cheney were. I was a PROUD mom when his teacher emailed me to tell me about it! He sat next to me many evenings, reading DU posts with articles, forming his own opinions and figuring out that he wasn't learning the whole story from the TV "news".

[ScreamingMeemie]

8. Well, they did put them after Hitler, Bin Laden and Manson.

So...there you go. The students have spoken. It's their yearbook.

[DBoon]

9. "If your children ever found out how lame you really are ...

... they'd murder you in your sleep"

Frank Zappa
1966

[The Unawriter]

10. The Kids are All Right

Let 'em express!

[SheilaT]

11. Personally, I'm of the

"politics have no place in a high school year book" thinking, but I'm neither in high school, nor do I currently have children in high school, so I am only expressing this as one person's opinion, not as a rule.

[donheld]

12. Truth is painful

[me b zola]

13. ZOMG! Someone spoke the truth and sheeple get the vapors

:freak:

[Ramulux]

14. I dont get this story

What exactly are the parents mad about? Are they saying that the students should not have editorial control over what goes in the yearbook? Or that nothing political can ever be shown?

[Initech]

15. My school banned quotes for like five years because of inappropriate comments.

[brettdale]

16. funny that

Faux news is picking up on the story.

[Obamanaut]

17. More "yearbook" responses at these threads ->

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=1220653&mesg_id=1220653

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=439&topic_id=1196369

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=439&topic_id=1217152

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=1218064&mesg_id=1218064

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=1220129&mesg_id=1220129

[Taitertots]

18. They are not being fair to Osama or Manson

Cheney, Bush and Hitler are war criminals. Manson was a petty criminal. And the government has put forth no evidence tying Osama to 911 or any terrorist attacks.