Posted on 06/01/2013 9:32:17 AM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Yearbook ruined after girl's name is replaced with slanderous caption in high school cheerleading squad photo
Someone with a bone to pick with a girl in a cheerleading squad photo somehow managed to get her name replaced with a sexually offensive insult in her high school yearbook.
Administrators at Irving High School in Irving, Texas are currently investigating how one of the captioned names in its cheerleading squad photo wound up saying ‘UGLY HOE’ instead of the student’s name.
The yearbook went to print and was in the process of being distributed when the offensive language was discovered.
SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO... Only ‘about a dozen’ of the yearbooks with the replaced name were given out to students, but 300 have been printed.
‘Our educators have hearts and concern for the students, so immediately our concern is for that student and her well being, and to make sure we get this problem corrected as quick as possible,’ school district spokesperson Leslie Weaver told WFAA.
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No moral adult supervision.
What I think it is, no adult supervision at all. When I worked the yearbook staff we had an adult over us. This would never have happened. Not in a million years.
Was an adult involved in the process? It does not appear to be the case. How stupid.
Teenagers without adult supervision always revert to ‘trashy people’ mode. Always.
The great thing is, these kids will be voting next year! Yay.
My high school yearbook (circa 1970) had pictures of the students and their names underneath, and then the student could add beneath their real name a nickname of their choosing. One kid in my class was named “Rodney Palmer” and he listed as his nickname, “Rod Palmer”.
If every Freeper reviewed their yearbook, I suspect something malicious like this probably could be found in every yearbook in the country since yearbooks began. Unfortunate that it happens but it’s nothing new.
This is my town.
The student who did this should be denied a diploma.
Even into the early 80s when I was in school we had teachers with morals who would physically corrected us for a first offense. (Miss Barden could lift a student out on their seat by the hair on the back of their neck)
A second offense would have gotten us kicked off the project.
There was also a LOT of oversight with just about every teacher in the school checking out the progress.
It shouldn’t be too difficult to find out who did it. Simply bill them for the price of re-printing the yearbook.
Of course references to “Choom Gang” shouldn’t have ever made it into a yearbook, neither.
There aren’t many adults left in America in general and in education in particular.
It was a tradition in our school for the seniors to also get their photos taken with the sophomore class under fake names for the yearbook. We had Buford Muffdiver, Rosie Palmer along with others. Kids will be kids...
I think it was the class of 1980 at my school who had t shirts printed that said “Kick ass class”.
They all looked pretty funny wearing their shirts inside out.
It was part of a compromise. They were treated as adults and allowed to put what they wanted on the shirts but treated as children for acting like children. Looking back I see a good lesson in it.
So true.
Bingo !
Hoe? Sounds like a garden tool. Must be the equivalent of Rake, as in libertine or roue.
Nowadays, Miss Barton would not be allowed to physically touch a student in any way. She would be sued by the parents, who could not imagine that their little angels could possibly have done anything to warrant any correction or punishment. It’s a different world now.
Sadly, I have to admit that I agree with that, especially with the adults in "education". Quotes used around education because I truly believe we no longer educate our children, we indoctrinate them.
My teachers were a different breed. They were from a time when teachers spent a lifetime teaching out of a love for teaching and the students. Almost all of them were the same teachers my parents had and in one case a 3rd grade teacher who had been my grandmother’s teacher.
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