That's goofy. And, honestly, an awful lapse of planning and good judgment in the principal's part. If I were the school board or the superintendent, I'd be thinking about a transfer of the person to somewhere they don't have to be burdened by such responsibilities.
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You would think that someone might glance at the comments before the books went to print.
The Indoctrination Centers get crazier every year.
High School Uses DUCT TAPE In Last-Minute Bid To Censor Yearbooks
Students at an Arizona high school got a big surprise when they opened up this year’s $75 yearbooks and found random chunks of duct tape crudely covering several student quotes that administrators found offensive and ordered censored at the last minute. The kerfuffle occurred at Sabino High School in Tucson, reports the Arizona Daily Independent. The yellow blotches in this story’s image are there to protect the names of the kids in the yearbook,…
About as effective as the explicit content warnings that were placed on records. Because if such a warning were placed on a record, you know that a kid wouldn't want to look at it.
(Back in the 1980s, I recall that one record album loudly trumpeted "This album contains backward masking!" Yeah, the record companies were laughing all the way to the bank from that whole episode.)
+John E. Bredehoft Exactly. While it sounds like the tape would not be easily taken off, I'm sure a lot of kids asked the censored kids, "Hey, what did you write?"
These are the same sort of dip shits that gave John Denver so much grief over "Rocky Mountain High".
My yearbook "Lifelong goal" was "Stamp out and abolish repetitious redundancy". They corrected it for grammar and put "Stamp out redundancy" instead.
I'm pretty sure I facepalmed before facepalming was a thing.