When our kids were in school, I could pick up any piece of material generated by the school and find errors of fact, grammar, spelling or style. And this was in a highly regarded school district.
Those yearbook errors pale in comparison to the errors in their history textbooks.
Reminds me of the university student paper at A&M. Besides the atrocious contents (they have editorials about sex romps, occult trash, and other things no one with a brain cares about), it is packed full with really stupid errors. When the election came around between Obama and Romney, they had two pages describing the candidates’ positions, one for Obama and one for Romney... which were exactly the same. I thought at first it was satire, that they were saying Mittens was just a Mormon version of Obama, but actually it was just a result of their general incompetence.
No big deal.
I couldn’t wait to get out of high school, and don’t miss it at all. I feel sorry for those who spend too much time fondly remembering their “glory days” because they peaked at age 18.
I did too many fun, interesting, and challenging things after I graduated that I never think about high school.
The fact that the students could pick out the errors, is encouraging.
There is usually a copy of it page by page, with lots of reviews and editors to sign off on the page...I bet that the Internet influence on publications have changed all that? No pasting of pictures or hard copy advance copies?
I guess that is the future (current) way of all printing.
My 10th grade yearbook has a couple of hilarious ones. For the Homecoming Dance, the school principal escorted the Homecoming Queen to the floor to dance with the game MVP. The caption read: Homecoming Queen with MVP Al Casey. The principal was a balding 55 year old. Better yet, the picture of the big, hulking defensive lineman MVP caption read: Queen, Kim Wilson being crowned.
Just get a 3rd grader from a real school with competent teachers to proof it fot ya, losers.
NO, INCREASING YOUR BUDGET AIN'T GONNA HELP!
YO!
...AND STOP YOUR FREAKING WHINING!
So does Nelson Rockefeller High School have an alibi?
My Senior Yearbook was the worst ever. Was not proofread by anyone. Filled with silly typos.
A midshipman at the Naval Academy wrote in his English paper that “Sancho Panza always rode a burrow.” In grading the paper, his professor remarked, “A burro is an ass. A burrow is a hole in the ground. As a future Naval Officer, you are expected to know the difference.”
:-)
Future voters
Was the copy editor, and then editor-in-chief, of my HS yearbook. This is the fault of the yearbook staff and the sponsor who obviously did a poor job of checking the layouts they submitted to the printer, and then the proofs that came back for approval. Printers make mistakes, too, but this one’s primarily on the school & the students.
This book was subcontracted out to a firm in Rio Linda.
Not surprised.
When I was in High School, the school used the BEST COMPANY to layout and print the yearbook - not the one that looked the most “like America”.