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The mother of a former Jones High School student whose picture appeared above the yearbook category "Most Likely to End Up on Cops" is ticked off that the school allowed the label to make it to print. "My reaction was, I couldn't believe they would allow such a topic to appear in a yearbook," said Carolyn Green, whose son, Marquise Laroach, appeared in the photo. His name, spelled 'Marquis' in the yearbook, appeared alongside that of another senior, who was identified as "Jasmine Franklen." "Jones High is a predominantly black school trying to improve its image," Green said. "How does...

This Clovis High School yearbook is out and is raising eyebrows with pictures and quotes from gay couples who attend the school.

Officials at a Texas high school have promised new yearbooks before the seniors graduate. About 30 pictures in the McKinney High yearbook were doctored. School administrators said they're appalled by the changes, which include putting one girl's head on what appears to be a blurred nude body. Officials said other changes include head and body switching, neck stretching and one girl whose arm is missing.

Gay kiss pic back in H.S. yearbook By JEFFREY GOLD THE ASSOCIATED PRESSTuesday, June 26th 2007, 10:53 AM NEWARK, N.J. - The Newark city school district that ordered staffers to use markers to black out a picture of a male student kissing his boyfriend from all copies of a school yearbook now says it regrets the decision.Superintendent Marion A. Bolden issued an apology to the student, Andre Jackson, according to a statement released by the district on Monday."The decision was based, in part, on misinformation that Mr. Jackson was not one of our students and our review simply focused...

NEWARK, N.J. -- The school district said Monday it regretted ordering a picture of a male student kissing his boyfriend blacked out from all copies of a high school yearbook and said it apologized to the student. Andre Jackson, the student, said he was disappointed that the superintendent had not delivered the apology face-to-face and in public. Because of that, he said he didn't accept it as sincere. "I would accept an apology - a public apology," said Jackson, 18. Jackson said he learned of the apology through the media. The district issued a statement Monday saying it regretted the...

NEWARK, N.J. — The yearbooks were finally printed and ready to be picked up by students at Newark's East Side High School — but not before some officials snapped open their correcting pens to edit out a picture of two males kissing. This was not art class, but staff afraid of parental backlash used markers to color over the picture, censoring it from every copy of the 2007 yearbook before distributing it, MyFoxNY.com reports. Described as "illicit" and provocative by Newark's superintendent of schools, Marion Bolden, the photograph depicts a kiss between 18-year-old Andre Jackson and David Escobales.

A gay-rights group is demanding an apology from Newark School Superintendent Marion Bolden for ordering her staff to black out a picture of a gay couple kissing be fore distributing copies of the yearbook to students at East Side High School. Calling the directive homophobic and unlawful, Steven Goldstein, chairman of Garden State Equality, said yesterday the school also should redistribute a new batch of uncensored yearbooks at the district's expense. "This action by the school district will have an unspeakably vile chilling effect on other gay and lesbian students coming out," Goldstein said. "Her (Bolden) trying to erase a...

Saddam Hussein's yearbooks from fourth grade and his senior year at Ivydale have been located by the BBC's Plastic Pie office. The big surprise: Journalist Rita Crowley was in his graduating class! Those were the days! FOURTH GRADE (HOMEROOM: MRS. ALLEN) SENIOR YEAR (ADVISOR: MR. GRIMSRUDE)

HAMILTON, Ala. - Tara Estes was almost breathless with excitement because she thought one of the more mysterious elements of the JonBenet Ramsey ransom note finally had been revealed. She climbed the steps to Jeff Brown's rickety porch, brushed aside an orange wasp and sat down on a dirty ice cooler. "Shall be the conqueror," she said Friday afternoon to a couple of quizzical looks. "S.B.T.C." Ah, yes. The ransom note that asked John Ramsey to turn over $118,000 for the safe return of 6-year-old JonBenet has been analyzed over and over for nearly a decade. The long, rambling ransom...

You can see a whole lot more on an "NYPD Blue" rerun, but when officials at a New Jersey school discovered a yearbook picture showing a bit of a student's underwear, they moved fast. Phillipsburg High School officials ripped out page 224 of every single yearbook. The offending picture shows a female student wearing a skirt and sitting on a desk. A glimpse of her underwear is visible. Some students are more offended that the page was yanked, calling it destruction of personal property. Also, in pulling out the page, the school took with it 16 other pictures that appeared...

Yearbook photo causes impromptu editing PHILLIPSBURG, N.J., June 13 (UPI) Officials at a New Jersey high school have begun editing this year's yearbook by removing a page in which a female student's underwear is partially visible. The Asbury (N.J.) Express-Times reports that the school's decision to remove the page from the Phillipsburg High School yearbook has been met with criticism from its student body. "First of all, people paid for these. They belong to the students," Katie Rockware, a Phillipsburg senior, said. "They are expensive. It's like them saying 'Excuse me, can I just destroy your personal property.' I thought...

Another school year is coming to an end, giving atheists and the politically correct new opportunities to forbid this country founded on Christian principles from thanking God for His many blessings. In Colleyville, Texas, the principal of -- get this -- Liberty Elementary School ordered "In God We Trust" removed from an oversized nickel depicted on her school's yearbook cover. The coin was picked because it was redesigned to include "Liberty" near the profile of Thomas Jefferson. Much to Principal Janet Travis' dismay, however, the motto also was visible. Rather than "offend" students, who no doubt care more about Santa...

A Keller school district parent said political correctness has run amok at her daughter's elementary school, where the principal chose to omit the words "In God We Trust" from an oversize coin depicted on the yearbook cover. Janet Travis, principal of Liberty Elementary School in Colleyville, wanted to avoid offending students of different religions, a district spokesman said. Students were given stickers with the words that could be affixed to the book if they so chose.

COLLEYVILLE — A yearbook cover that omits the words "In God We Trust" from a picture of an enlarged nickel has angered some parents. Liberty Elementary, a new school in suburban Fort Worth, chose the coin because the nickel's new design prominently features the school's name in cursive. The coin also has "In God We Trust" along the right edge, but the phrase was removed from the yearbook. Instead, the $16 book came with a sticker that gave students the choice of putting the phrase back on the nickel. Some parents say the school's decision was political correctness gone too...

'In God We Trust' goes missing School plays it safe with yearbook cover photo 08:37 AM CDT on Saturday, May 20, 2006 WFAA-TV The freedom of religion at Liberty Elementary School has gone too far for some parents at the Colleyville school. The cover of the Keller ISD school's annual depicts the 2005 Liberty Nickel – complete with the face of Thomas Jefferson – but the words "In God We Trust" are missing. Instead, the $16 yearbook contains a sticker with the credo and directions on how to apply it to the cover if the owner chooses.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A lesbian student has reached an out-of-court agreement about six months after her senior portrait was banned from the yearbook because she was dressed in a tuxedo. Kelli Davis, now a freshman at the University of South Florida in Tampa, said she hopes the settlement will prevent future discrimination against students. "It wasn't a gender-identity issue," Davis said. "I'm obviously a female; I don't try and be a guy. But I was being discriminated on because of my gender." The dispute began earlier this year when Fleming Island principal Sam Ward pulled Davis' yearbook photo because it...

June 17, 2005 -- A Queens couple claims their daughter's memories of elementary school have been marred by a "horrible" yearbook pho- to, and are demanding the school recall all 200 books and replace the picture. Michelle Maihepat, of South Ozone Park, said her 11-year-old daughter, Asheana, is so embarrassed by the "bad picture" that she has been crying and hiding her face in shame from her sixth-grade classmates at PS 121 since the yearbooks were distributed Monday. "For the rest of her life, she's going to have to be ashamed of that horrible picture," Maihepat said. "Twenty years down...

  

Yearbooks Pulled for 'Most Likely to Assassinate Bush' WIDEFIELD, Colorado (May 27) - High school yearbooks were recalled so that administrators could black out a joke caption under one student's picture: "most likely to assassinate President Bush." Mesa Ridge High School officials recalled about 100 yearbooks earlier this month and had staffers use markers to obscure the words in them and in the still-undistributed copies. The Secret Service even launched an investigation. "They kind of ruined our yearbook," said Christina Tredway, who just graduated from the school just south of Colorado Springs. Most students thought the blacking-out was a bad...

WIDEFIELD -- Most Mesa Ridge High School students got yearbooks with a black mark under one student's picture, covering up a phrase that has caught the Secret Service's interest. After about 100 yearbooks were distributed May 6, somebody complained about the caption, which reads "most likely to assassinate President Bush." School officials asked students to return the yearbooks, and staff members used markers to cover up the words . . .