School with cheesy yearbook cover wipes out 8th grader that committed suicide
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Our yearbook cover is the instagram app icon.
That's right, we have an instagram themed yearbook.
All names that appear on pages even begin with @
3rd suicide related news bit today.
Definitely a trend.
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[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]
We've always gotten yearbooks - they were just paperbacks until highschool, usually.
That's messed up. Kids who died at my school would get an entire page for their selves, which was really nice of them.
[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]
Oh so [i]EDGY[/i]
Or you haven't lost someone.
This was in the next city over to me, really close. This is extremely screwed up but I have a feeling it has to do since he shot himself in a school bathroom.
[QUOTE=logokiller;40916754]Wow, that's an awful yearbook cover. Anyways, really sucks that he was left out of the yearbook.[/QUOTE]
I had iCats my freshman year. It was worse.
[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]
Maybe instead of wiping him out of the yearbook like a goddamn Soviet dissident, they could honor and remember him.
[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]
I just saw that episode the other day, my brothers have left the TV on Teennick and Ned's Declassified is on all the time.
But yeah, I don't see why they would leave him out imo.
[QUOTE=redBadger;40918123]I had iCats my freshman year. It was worse.[/QUOTE]
Please post if you haven't torched it already.
[QUOTE]"It's almost like they want to forget he existed, and that makes me sad," said mother Ann Nichols.[/QUOTE]
I think they might. Schools are really obsessed about reputation and always seem to try to keep a good reputation in the worst possible way.
[QUOTE=The_J_Hat;40918147]Maybe instead of wiping him out of the yearbook like a goddamn Soviet dissident, they could honor and remember him.[/QUOTE]
No school district would have that much of a soul to ever consider something that nice.
[QUOTE=FinalHunter;40917023]Because the only one seriously affected by this is the mother.[/QUOTE]
and, yknow, all his friends at school, who might be upset that their friend was essentially wiped from their class.
i'm assuming you've never lost a friend.
[QUOTE=Shiftyze;40918097]That's messed up. Kids who died at my school would get an entire page for their selves, which was really nice of them.[/QUOTE]
Same here man. A kid who got ran over had the last page dedicated to him.
I've had to deal with a suicide recently; a friend of a friend (and that friend was only through the Internet), but it still hit me hard. I can't even begin to imagine what it's like for those kids, who aren't even 15. The school should have at least included his picture if it was too late to change the book; if not, they should have had a page dedicated to him. It's respectful, to him, the kids and his mother.
I'm more concerned that an 8th grader decided to take his own life. Within his school, no less. That's messed up man.
[QUOTE=FinalHunter;40917023]In another 6 months, no kid is still going to be going "Man, I wish he was in the yearbook."[/QUOTE]
The kids who knew him?
By this logic the yearbook should have no pictures at all in it.
This is really insensitive and disrespectful. Dead or alive, you can't just remove someone from the yearbook.
At my school I missed the picture day and the make-up picture day was cancelled.
For both my sophomore and senior year(the years that I attended that school(went to an academy for junior year and failed back)) I was never listed on the yearbook. They didn't have a name without a picture or anything, they just wholesale took me off of the roster, which led to a few other troubles near graduation.
Schools are really prissy about their beloved yearbook.
[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]
I don't think you know enough about this kid to be able to come to the conclusion that none of his friends will care about this in 6 months. He might of been an incredibly social person, or he might of been a complete loner, either way to simply summarise the effect this would have on the kids around him as "No big deal, they won't care in 6 months" sounds incredibly insulting.
[QUOTE=willer;40922393]At my school I missed the picture day and the make-up picture day was cancelled.
For both my sophomore and senior year(the years that I attended that school(went to an academy for junior year and failed back)) I was never listed on the yearbook. They didn't have a name without a picture or anything, they just wholesale took me off of the roster, which led to a few other troubles near graduation.[/QUOTE]
I made it to picture day, and I still wasn't in my yearbook. Apparently the school didn't have a list of all the students, so they used a list of everyone who had an ELA class. I had taken mine early, so I didn't have one that year...
They took every picture that I was in and either didn't have a name or put the name of another guy with my last name.
[QUOTE=wickedplayer494;40916809]NDSSG: the xkcd of schools. :v:[/QUOTE]
that show had art alexakis on it as a teacher for one episode, i was always unsure if it was as edgy as i thought that made it or not
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A girl at my school died and they didn't include her in the yearbook that year (she died at the end of the school year too so it's unlikely she didn't take a photo), and when students were standing outside in her memory they were forced to go back in. Schools really don't give a shit.
This is disgraceful bullshit.
A boy in my year died after being hit by a car during year 8, when we left school after year 11 he was in the year book just as everyone else, along with a 2 spread tribute page. The school built a peace garden in his memory, too.
The thing I notice is his mom says he took a picture, she doesn't say he was there for picture day. Considering the level of grief she must be feeling, and the desperation to see him matter in some way, it doesn't surprise me she's upset.
Unfortunately, I can see the school's point. When picture day comes and goes, those who aren't there don't get the official picture included, unlike candid photos which they say he IS in, in this yearbook.
Finally, as far as memorials go that's on the family. The mom, or some other family member, should have spoken to the school board to find out if something could be done at the end of the year or something. This accomplishes a couple of important things. One, it tells the relevant school officials that the family would like something done(never assume they know this), and it allows the family to find out ahead of time if anything can be done. This way when the end of the year comes you don't have family bitching about their kid being excluded, as they are doing now.
A kid getting hit by a car is one thing, a kid killing himself on school grounds is another. That was a dick move and if I was a parent of another kid who had to go to that school after that kid did that, I wouldn't exactly be upset if the school just moved on.
[QUOTE=cecilbdemodded;40927844]The thing I notice is his mom says he took a picture, she doesn't say he was there for picture day. Considering the level of grief she must be feeling, and the desperation to see him matter in some way, it doesn't surprise me she's upset.
Unfortunately, I can see the school's point. When picture day comes and goes, those who aren't there don't get the official picture included, unlike candid photos which they say he IS in, in this yearbook.
Finally, as far as memorials go that's on the family. The mom, or some other family member, should have spoken to the school board to find out if something could be done at the end of the year or something. This accomplishes a couple of important things. One, it tells the relevant school officials that the family would like something done(never assume they know this), and it allows the family to find out ahead of time if anything can be done. This way when the end of the year comes you don't have family bitching about their kid being excluded, as they are doing now.
A kid getting hit by a car is one thing, a kid killing himself on school grounds is another. That was a dick move and if I was a parent of another kid who had to go to that school after that kid did that, I wouldn't exactly be upset if the school just moved on.[/QUOTE]
If you didn't take a picture for my yearbook you just had your name at the back, under a "Not Pictured" list. Why couldn't the school have done that?
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[QUOTE=cecilbdemodded;40927844]This way when the end of the year comes you don't have family bitching about their kid being excluded, as they are doing now.
A kid getting hit by a car is one thing, a kid killing himself on school grounds is another. That was a dick move and if I was a parent of another kid who had to go to that school after that kid did that, I wouldn't exactly be upset if the school just moved on.[/QUOTE]
Wow. You're a fucking asshole.
[QUOTE=nox;40916963]Yearbook photos aren't the same as school ID photos, at least they weren't in my school.[/QUOTE]
They have been for every school I've gone to, unless you had retakes or you came to the school late in the year. Even then, they usually just included any picture they had on file for that person.
[QUOTE=TaniaTiger;40927494]This is disgraceful bullshit.
A boy in my year died after being hit by a car during year 8, when we left school after year 11 he was in the year book just as everyone else, along with a 2 spread tribute page. The school built a peace garden in his memory, too.[/QUOTE]
Thats an excellent way to build a good school reputation and show respect for somebody who took their own life. Some schools lack common sense, preserving a reputation through reprehensible means.
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