Not Pictured: Senior Denied Spot In Yearbook

WCPO 9 CIncinnati ^ | 12/5/2008 | Jessica Noll

[day10]

Senior Clay Edwards’ photo won’t be in this year’s Bracken County High School yearbook. He’ll be listed as “not pictured.”

For Edwards it wasn’t missing picture day or a case of the flu that kept him out of his last yearbook and the class of 2009 composite – it was a dog collar and makeup......

[day10]

No comment.

[day10]

Say hello to Clay

[AppyPappy]

Gee, somebody has to be the Emo kid at the school. It’s required by law.

[Slapshot68]

Ironically enough, he was also voted Most Likely Not to Appear in the Yearbook.

[the_devils_advocate_666]

I’d like to see a picture of his parents.

[Travis T. OJustice]

In my day, he’d get his ass kicked not for how he looks or what he represents, but because he’s just stupid. What a jerk.

[Sacajaweau]

If this is the kid...I can picture the parents. Nevermind...

[mnehring]

If he is trying to do EMO or Punk, he is doing it wrong. I think that is the gay vampire housewife look.

[Steamburg]

Ok, Who’s the idiot that is afraid he looks too much like one of the teachers?

[LurkedLongEnough]

Clay, I’d bet you’re the type who likes to explore independence, check us out.

And, now more people will see you than if you were in your yearbook, dude.

[Just another Joe]

ME! ME! ME! I WANT WHAT I WANT AND I WANT IT NOW!

[Mojave]

Somebody has to replace Boy George.

[Dumpster Baby]

"Hi, Clay!"

[Paved Paradise]

Uh, I think they should put the kid’s pic in; it’ll be very instructional later in life and he’ll never be able to deny what a bozo he was in HS. Most kids DO grow out of this nonsense; of course I realize not all do. Boy George is still alive and well (and in jail now I think).

[SJSAMPLE]

Somebody smack that kid.

[notpoliticallycorewrecked]

When he grows up he’ll be grateful that he didn’t have his picture in the yearbook. But then again, maybe not.

[MrB]

parentS?

I’m betting the farm that there is no father in the home.

[siamesecats]

I don’t blame the school.
Who would want that picture in their yearbook!

[Jeff Gordon]

As Dick Cheney would say...

So?

[Opinionated Blowhard]

In my opinion, let him have his picture in the yearbook as long as he’s not being obscene. Kids should be able to dress however they want as long as they are clothed and don’t have obscenities on their clothes. He will look like a fool but that’s his problem. Let him explain it to his kids 20 years from now.

[Right Wing Assault]

Hey, Clay, try to get a job looking like that in anyplace but your local use CD store or tattoo shop.

[mysterio]

Looks more vampire goth than emo. Emo requires the backwards mullet, vintage tee, and white belt.

[ican'tbelieveit]

I agree. If he grows out of it, what a tool to have when his kids think they are rebellious.

[mnehring]

In my day, the punks who where the ones likely to do the whole makeup and dog-collar thing, and they could return a good ass-whoopin. This kid looks like he would bake cookies.. evil cookies.

[Dianna]

Seems to me that if that look is allowed in school, why not in the yearbook too?

[autumnraine]

My best friend from age of 12 was very very punk (80’s). Ironically, as much as people gawked at her and her multicolored mohawk, I realized that she was really hiding. As long as they were looking at the clothes, the hair, the makeup... they weren’t looking at “her”.

She grew up to be a really nice homeschooling mom if you can believe it.

[allmendream]

No No No
I’m not going to be in your talent show
No No No
I’m not going to be in your talent show

[Right Wing Assault]

“used CD store”

[Travis T. OJustice]

Obscenities are legal, according to the SCOTUS. Doesn’t make it right.

[savedbygrace]

Awright, the dad needs to paddle that guy’s backside till he straightens out.

[Drew68]

Gee, somebody has to be the Emo kid at the school. It’s required by law.

In 10 years, he's gonna be happy that his photo was omitted from the yearbook.

That being said, every yearbook needs the goofy Emo kids (or "new wave kids" when I was in high school) asserting their individuality. If that's how he dressed every day in school, then that's how he ought to be remembered in his yearbook photo. What does it really matter? Ten years later, we all laugh at our senior yearbooks.

[jacquej]

Maybe we should hope he doesn’t have any?

Gotta think of the gene pool.

[RichInOC]

1. Beauty is skin deep. Ugly goes clear to the bone.
2. Makeup washes off. Stupid is forever.

[mnehring]

I swear, the one on the right looks like Barf from Spaceballs.

[Right Wing Assault]

The school is the official publisher of the yearbook and they can call the shots. No doubt they told the kids “what not to wear.”

[CrazyIvan]

Let the kid make an ass of himself. I’ll never live that yearbook picture with the Nehru jacket down.

[Travis T. OJustice]

She grew up to be a really nice homeschooling mom if you can believe it.

At a reunion, i noticed most of the wilder kids in HS had become the stay-at home moms, attorneys, etc, and the good, clean kids, if they were still alive, were all drunk, doing coke in the bathroom, and generally unhappy with life.

[abigailsmybaby]

Clay's parents?

[dragonblustar]

Kid looks like Eddie Izzard.

[mnehring]

I have all of life to be reminded of my 8th grade Tony Hawk haircut and skater shirt..

[gridlock]

Gee, Mom! Why'd you ditch the pearl choker for the dog collar?

[day10]

Oh man, you should see mine. My kids laugh hyserically when they see it. Some folks don’t change much, but it’s like I am a different person than that picture as I was a late bloomer. 5’ 7”, 135 lbs when I graduated and 6’ 1”, 175 lbs. at the end of my freshman year of college.

[TonyInOhio]

Ironically enough, he was also voted Most Likely Not to Appear in the Yearbook.

That's the Reply of the Day, right there. :)

[mnehring]

At a reunion, i noticed most of the wilder kids in HS had become the stay-at home moms, attorneys, etc, and the good, clean kids, if they were still alive, were all drunk, doing coke in the bathroom, and generally unhappy with life.

So Travis, that begs the question, where you one of the wild kids or one of the 'good, clean' kids?

[hoe_cake]

One of your boys, my dear?

[SJSAMPLE]

Those are good stories, but those are rarely the results.

Good kids usually end up being good adults, and bad kids usually follow their current course.

[day10]

LOL!!! NOT!

[thefactor]

for the difference, she a recent South Park episode where the “goth” kids freaked because people were mistaking them for the new “vampire” group that emerged.

[RobRoy]

He’ll thank them later.

[lilylangtree]

He won’t be the first nor will he be the last to not get his picture in the yearbook. So he just needs to suck it up.