• School with cheesy yearbook cover wipes out 8th grader that committed suicide
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[url]http://wrbw.membercenter.worldnow.com/story/22492116/southgate-students-photo-not-in-yearbook-following-suicide[/url] [quote=WRBW]A teenager's short life ended in suicide. Now his photo has been left out of his school's yearbook, and it has some people upset. Flip through the yearbook and it's as if Tyler Nichols never went to Davidson Middle School. However, he was a part of the eighth grade class. In fact, he went to Southgate Schools all his life. The 13-year-old took his own life inside the school this past March. The district has been helping students cope and move on, but his friends and family say erasing him from the yearbook is going too far. I asked a classmates and friend how it makes him feel not to see Tyler's photo in the yearbook. "Upset. Sad. He was there during the pictures, and that he's part of our school," he said. "It's almost like they want to forget he existed, and that makes me sad," said mother Ann Nichols. She said the school never told her that her son would not be included in the yearbook. In fact, she said a teacher mentioned the school might put together a tribute page. "He was just such a good kid, and up until actually that morning, every day, multiple times a day, he would come up to me and hug me and tell me how much he loved me," Nichols said. "I don't want anyone to do what Tyler did ever, but I think totally suppressing them thinking about Tyler or remembering him is not good, either." The district superintendent said the yearbook was sent off to be printed in early March before Tyler passed away, and they did not have a picture of him. However, his mother said he did take a picture that year because he had a new student identification card. Meanwhile, the school district said that they will meet with Tyler's mother because she is the one that matters in this situation.[/quote] [t]http://i.imgur.com/9EMcu6l.png[/t] What the fuck is with this cover
Wow, that's an awful yearbook cover. Anyways, really sucks that he was left out of the yearbook.
[QUOTE=logokiller;40916754]Wow, that's an awful yearbook cover.[/QUOTE] Don't tell Creationism Corner. Please. That shit looks like something from the DAAS.
what the fuck kind of yearbook is that
The cover is pretty much an Apple ad what?
It reminds me of that one episode of Ned's Declassified where they essentially sold their school to a cell phone company just so they could afford yearbook covers.
[QUOTE=Kirbunny431;40916795]It reminds me of that one episode of Ned's Declassified where they essentially sold their school to a cell phone company just so that could afford yearbook covers.[/QUOTE] NDSSG: the xkcd of schools. :v:
"if we remove all traces that he existed, then nobody will see that he died either :downs:"
That's terribly fucked up on the school's part.
[quote] In fact, she said a teacher mentioned the school might put together a tribute page.[/quote] well was there a tribute page or not? if there wasn't I can understand why the mother would be pissed.
[QUOTE=DesumThePanda;40916843]well was there a tribute page or not? if there wasn't I can understand why the mother would be pissed.[/QUOTE] Doubtful if they left his photo out, otherwise, they probably wouldn't have been complaining. [editline]5th June 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=FinalHunter;40916849]This is moronic. You have a group of young children, some if not many of whom were probably friends with this child. They don't need to leaf through their yearbook on what should be a happy day and be reminded of their friend who killed himself. Just because a parent is grieving it doesn't give them the right to impose their child's memory onto everyone else. You have to move on with your life after loss, and making a big deal out of the fact that he isn't in the yearbook is stupid and unhealthy.[/QUOTE] See above (if my merge doesn't break). Most schools that have a competent yearbook dev team would include some sort of a tribute.
I'm more shocked that a middle school has a yearbook in the first place. Never got one until high school. Is that a common thing or something?
The title is somewhat misleading, they didnt have a picture of him and the book was printed prior to his death, they really couldn't do much at that point unless they remade the entire stock of yearbooks.
[QUOTE=nox;40916943]The title is somewhat misleading, they didnt have a picture of him and the book was printed prior to his death.[/QUOTE] Bad Reading x 1 [quote=the article]However, his mother said he did take a picture that year because he had a new student identification card.[/quote]
[QUOTE=wickedplayer494;40916955]Bad Reading x 1[/QUOTE] Yearbook photos aren't the same as school ID photos, at least they weren't in my school.
[QUOTE=nox;40916943]The title is somewhat misleading, they didnt have a picture of him and the book was printed prior to his death, they really couldn't do much at that point unless they remade the entire stock of yearbooks.[/QUOTE] That's what the school [I]claimed[/I] Sounds like utter bull
[QUOTE=FinalHunter;40916972]Uh, they could have just lost it.[/QUOTE] You can't just "lose" a photo, especially if they go into computer systems.
[QUOTE=FinalHunter;40916849]This is moronic. You have a group of young children, some if not many of whom were probably friends with this child. They don't need to leaf through their yearbook on what should be a happy day and be reminded of their friend who killed himself. Just because a parent is grieving it doesn't give them the right to impose their child's memory onto everyone else. You have to move on with your life after loss, and making a big deal out of the fact that he isn't in the yearbook is stupid and unhealthy. Yeah yeah, I get it, I'm dumb because my opinion is different than yours.[/QUOTE] No you are dumb because you don't understand how grieving or moving on works. Losing a friend isnt something that you just get over and act all jolly about. I mean of course you have to live your life but what does erasing the existence of a kid in a yearbook do for moving on.
[QUOTE=nox;40916963]Yearbook photos aren't the same as school ID photos, at least they weren't in my school.[/QUOTE] Doesn't matter, in absence of a yearbook specific photo they can substitute with another photo of him. Very rarely have I seen "NO PHOTO" in the yearbook.
Funny how his picture not being in the book made the news but not the suicide itself, it's like kids suiciding isn't even a big deal anymore.
[QUOTE=FinalHunter;40916994]They designed THAT cover, you don't think they can accidentally delete a fucking photo?[/QUOTE] "accidentally" as in someone deliberately clicking the delete button?
[QUOTE=FinalHunter;40916849]This is moronic. You have a group of young children, some if not many of whom were probably friends with this child. They don't need to leaf through their yearbook on what should be a happy day and be reminded of their friend who killed himself. Just because a parent is grieving it doesn't give them the right to impose their child's memory onto everyone else. You have to move on with your life after loss, and making a big deal out of the fact that he isn't in the yearbook is stupid and unhealthy. Yeah yeah, I get it, I'm dumb because my opinion is different than yours.[/QUOTE] no you're dumb because your opinion is dumb moving on with life after loss doesn't equate to removing the existence of the loss. that's not moving on it's just socially dysfunctional denial
Damn you fooling me with that play button on that picture.
[QUOTE=FinalHunter;40917023]Because the only one seriously affected by this is the mother. The yearbook isn't for the mother. The yearbook is for the students to look back on in a few years. I'm not saying I would have removed this student from the yearbook if it were my choice, but I'm saying it's nothing to cry about. In another 6 months, no kid is still going to be going "Man, I wish he was in the yearbook."[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]I asked a classmates and friend how it makes him feel not to see Tyler's photo in the yearbook. "Upset. Sad. He was there during the pictures, and that he's part of our school," he said. [/QUOTE] Yeah only his mom, and just because they didnt ask every single classmate what they thought doesnt mean no one is affected.
[QUOTE=Desuh;40917067]Damn you fooling me with that play button on that picture.[/QUOTE] The video itself had the headline thing on it, which covered up some of the cover.
[QUOTE=Zergeant;40917033]Funny how his picture not being in the book made the news but not the suicide itself, it's like kids suiciding isn't even a big deal anymore.[/QUOTE] ..It did though? [t]http://puu.sh/39enn.png[/t]
[QUOTE=FinalHunter;40917023]Because the only one seriously affected by this is the mother. The yearbook isn't for the mother. The yearbook is for the students to look back on in a few years. I'm not saying I would have removed this student from the yearbook if it were my choice, but I'm saying it's nothing to cry about. In another 6 months, no kid is still going to be going "Man, I wish he was in the yearbook."[/QUOTE] Look out guys, we've got an edgy one.
[QUOTE=Kinversulath;40916941]I'm more shocked that a middle school has a yearbook in the first place. Never got one until high school. Is that a common thing or something?[/QUOTE] even my kindergarten had a yearbook I think
[QUOTE=wickedplayer494;40916764]Don't tell Creationism Corner. Please. That shit looks like something from the DAAS.[/QUOTE] What is DAAS?
[QUOTE=wickedplayer494;40916809]NDSSG: the xkcd of schools. :v:[/QUOTE] I'd actually argue that the show makes a lot of good points about the insanity that is the public school system under the guise of slapstick comedy. A lot of the 'good' kids shows seem to have authors that desperately want to slip individuality and political voice into the slop they've been hired to create. It's funny - I feel the most subliminal parts of TV in America are the ideas and questions that matter. Maybe it just means I am getting old.
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