A graduating senior at a New Jersey high school was suspended over submitting a yearbook photo that included controversial artwork.
Student suspended over yearbook photo with provocative painting
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You can quote me on that: Yearbook quotes elicit censorship and refund offers
It’s that time of year again when school administrators and student journalists face the nail-biting moment of yearbook release, mostly excitement with just a bit of (occasionally well-founded) trepidation.
High school principal and yearbook editor battling over right to publish teen pregnancy photos
The high school principal has halted the publication of a yearbook spread on teen pregnancy — and has blocked students from appealing her decision.
Yearbook vandalism cases abound as yearbook distribution season continues
Multiple cases of yearbook pranks are in the news this month as students around the cou...
Censored yearbook quotes raised questions of prior review at Tucson high school
School officials at a Tucson high school censored nearly 10 quotes in the yearbook with black stickers before distributing to students.
Texas high school yearbook recalled after “Ugly Hoe” caption discovered
On the heels of another high school yearbook prank, Irving High School in Irving, Tex., recalled every copy of the 2012-13 yearbook last week after realizing that a student’s name had been changed to “Ugly Hoe” in a photo caption, the Dallas Observer reported.
The person who changed the student’s name has not yet been identified, said Lesley Weaver, the school district's director of communications.
“We can speculate, but we don’t know definitively,” Weaver said.
Missouri high school junior arrested for yearbook prank
Kaitlyn Booth, 17, a junior at Hickman High School in Columbia, Mo., was arrested earlier this month after a prank in which she she changed a student's last name to "Masturbate" in the 2013 yearbook.Booth faces charges of harassment as well as first-degree property damage, a felony, in addition to unspecified school punishment.The name change is found on page 270 of the yearbook, the page that features the index.
District orders reprinting of yearbook after flirt superlative offends parent
Calsbad Unified School District has ordered the reprinting of a middle school yearbook following a parent’s complaint about a “superlative” that she says is responsible for her daughter’s harassment.
Calif. school district overrules yearbook editors' decision to reject photo
A Pleasanton school district is overruling a high school yearbook’s decision to reject a senior photo that student editors deemed inappropriate.
Colorado parents, students upset by school's ban on memorial page for student
Parents are protesting a Colorado Springs high school that won’t allow the yearbook staff to include a memorial page for a student who committed suicide in August.