Cobb

Clearly the school has all the right in the world to do what it did. on the other hand, how many kids actually knew what that meant? I sure as hell didn't. The school; has just insured that more kids will be doing that sign in the halls now. Stupid. Like how the ADL decided to decry the Gibson movie, only to net Gibsy more money because they complained so loud. Sometimes it's best just to let yr enemies die rather then parade their heads around on a stick.

On the other hand I agree with the sentiment that you can't just erase history. My take would have been to leave one picture and have the rest dumped.

A few years ago I ran across Classmates.com, and that took me back to the high school yearbook.

I'm not sure if there was anything back then worth remembering, but I sure would have preferred to have a document which looked at how we really were, rather than some glossy attempt to cast us in the same smiling light that every other stupid yearbook has.

My partner recently asked her dad if he had any pictures of when she had braces on her legs. He said "I don't think we wanted to remember those times". We recently went through hundreds of slides, and found a lot of memories, but because of that subconscious editing, a lot of the memories she was looking to explore weren't there.

Make the yearbook a record of what was, not an attempt to stuff faces into a generic layout that will have no meaning in two decades. Give those four years some value, otherwise we may as well just publish a single yearbook for everybody that we can sell in Wal*Mart whenever people get to feeling nostalgic.