{"id":42505,"date":"2014-06-11T11:48:32","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T17:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/11\/because-duct-tape-was-easier-than-scissors-i-guess.html"},"modified":"2014-06-11T23:11:56","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T05:11:56","slug":"because-duct-tape-was-easier-than-scissors-i-guess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/11\/because-duct-tape-was-easier-than-scissors-i-guess.html","title":{"rendered":"Because duct tape was easier than scissors, I guess"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">Really? The principal didn&#39;t bother to review the year book <i>before<\/i> it went off to the printer, then decided some of the senior comments were (for whatever arbitrary reason) inappropriate, and <i>then<\/i> decided to set the <i>yearbook staff<\/i> to putting electrical tape over the offending passages?<\/p>\n<p>That&#39;s goofy. And, honestly, an awful lapse of planning and good judgment in the principal&#39;s part. If I were the school board or the superintendent, I&#39;d be thinking about a transfer of the person to somewhere they don&#39;t have to be burdened by such responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/117242040716806453518'>Mark Means<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Society<\/b><\/p>\n<p>You would think that someone might glance at the comments <i>before<\/i> the books went to print.<\/p>\n<p>The Indoctrination Centers get crazier every year.\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p class='gpb-article' style='clear:both;'>\n<div style='overflow:hidden;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n                                                    <img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/xAFJlSthtILcF_BntpufAELT5T8URT0Ub0DVqpAoAcJH9w8pvQ3A0OfPy_hGloy1ysJBz8gKJL40L2wqiL3n3iPKYq2lU4KJQrBdQrC81-ujN2z6cPQUNLbdroejSnR3s1nCRCTVMQ=w120-h120' border='0' \/>\n                                                <\/div>\n<p>                                                <a href='http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/high-school-uses-duct-tape-last-minute-bid-151805846.html'>High School Uses DUCT TAPE In Last-Minute Bid To Censor Yearbooks<\/a><br \/>\n                                                Students at an Arizona high school got a big surprise when they opened up this year\u2019s $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\u2019s image are there to protect the names of the kids in the yearbook,&#8230;\n                                            <\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/MZtRtKeXs7A' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really? The principal didn&#39;t bother to review the year book before it went off to the printer, then decided some of the senior comments were (for whatever arbitrary reason) inappropriate, and then decided to set the yearbook staff to putting electrical tape over the offending passages? That&#39;s goofy. And, honestly, an awful lapse of planning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/11\/because-duct-tape-was-easier-than-scissors-i-guess.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Because duct tape was easier than scissors, I guess&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,133,46],"tags":[586],"class_list":["post-42505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-censorship","category-school-daze","tag-pluspost"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130623,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/08\/insurance-companies-the-duct-tape-and-chicken-wire-of-western-civilization.html","url_meta":{"origin":42505,"position":0},"title":"Insurance companies: &quot;the duct tape and chicken wire of Western civilization&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 8-May-16 11:46pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Interesting article (and preliminary comments) about the role that insurance companies play in quietly noodging companies into policies that avoid payouts of money from civil law suits -- payouts those insurance companies would have to fork over.That's not a perfect proxy for democracy or the public good by any means,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9723,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/05\/03\/a_remarkably_cl.html","url_meta":{"origin":42505,"position":1},"title":"A remarkably clever idea","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 3-May-06 7:41am","format":false,"excerpt":"Masking tape with inch marks on it. 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