Posted on 06/21/2006 7:55:46 AM PDT by Millee
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 on both sides.
They ain't cheap. My daughter said I was over-reacting when I complained about all the autographs written in her yearbook...the one I bought for $65
Students pay up to $100 for new yearbooks. Used yearbooks, intact, go for for about zero.
What's a yearbook without autographs?
"What's a yearbook without autographs?"
My thoughts exactly! I love having my yearbooks from 25 years ago with autographs plastered on almost every page. I think my kids get an even bigger kick out of looking at them than I do. LOL
These days kids put all sorts of silly graffiti in yearbooks, often defacing the pictures of people they didn't particularly care for or making derogatory remarks about them. As a bibliophile I find this sacriligious but I have no problems with autographs and tasteful well wishes throughout the books, so long as they don't deface their own or other's pictures.
That said, in the time it took to rip out those pages the school district might have somehow covered up the underwear with magic marker or something and thereby saved all the proper pictures. I did something similar to a humor book my kids wanted to read. There were some salacious cartoons in it which got edited by mom before the kids got to read the jokes.
Ripped out pge 224? How big was this yearbook? No wonder they charge so much for them now!
Yeah I know. I was being the stereotypical stick in the mud Dad 8>)
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