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Reprinting Massaponax yearbook likely to be very costly
Reprinting the Massaponax High School yearbook to remove "inappropriate" content could cost tens of thousands of dollars, and Principal Joe Rodkey said yesterday he isn't sure where the money will come from.
"As far as funding, I won't know that until I get more information from the company [that printed the books]," Rodkey said. It is funding that could be hard to find in the Spotsylvania County school system, which cut its budget by 6 percent and eliminated almost 160 positions this school year. Rodkey said Tuesday he had halted distribution of the books and would have them reprinted to remove disturbing confessions and "quotable quotes" filled with sexual innuendos. The "confessions" were featured prominently on pages 4-7 and then scattered throughout the rest of the book, with something on nearly every page. They include: "I worry all the time my ex-boyfriend will use the naked picture I sent him to ruin my life." "I once did so much pot that I woke up high." "I'm pregnant with my best friend's boyfriend's kid." Some yearbooks were distributed at an after-school "signing party" Friday. Rodkey said yesterday he still wasn't sure how many books were in the hands of students. Walsworth Publishing printed the yearbooks originally and will be doing the reprint. Rodkey didn't know yesterday how much the original press run cost, and officials from Walsworth did not return calls yesterday. But full-color, 300-page yearbooks at three comparably sized Stafford County high schools cost between $60,000 and $65,000 for 850-1,200 copies. The Massaponax book was about 250 pages. Rodkey sent an automated phone message Tuesday night to parents, telling them the yearbook wasn't what the community deserved and that it would be reprinted for distribution prior to the end of the school year on June 11. The school system released a statement yesterday and said neither Rodkey nor other system officials would grant interviews. By yesterday afternoon, The Free Lance-Star's story about the yearbook was on several national news sites and Rodkey said several television reporters had left telephone messages.
Read more stories about Spotsylvania Date published: 5/20/2010
Your year book is a reflection of the school and the students. Don't censor anything that is truth. Let history be recorded truthfully. If the kids were getting high and pregnant than let it be known. If the teachers are trying to "hook up" with students, let all the students and teachers know that too. Don't waste money. Hand them out. Have different members on next years year book staff and tel them what was good and bad about this years.
Simply said, give THEM (student population) THEIR YEARBOOK ans stop with YOUR judgement calls and let history repeat itself. I still love my rock n' roll. Try to take that from me, you'll have hell to pay. The game is over, let's get back to business.
PRUDE i am not! My point was if the book was called confessions and the kids did just that, it's for the kids, not everybody in Spotsy. I didn't mention anything about a mid-riff. I mentioned the things that the kids are exposed to everyday . Again I said was there something NEGATIVE about him in the book he saw and didn't approve of?
This all sounds like it could be the makings of a good MTV after school special but like I said it could be but there just aint enough truth to it all ... I wonder as the children walk the hallways if they are looking at each other and trying to figure out who is who and if they can ... well ... what a great situation they have put themselves in.
Back in the day if one kid talked in class the whole class had to miss recess. That way the one who talked thought twice about doing it again because he didn't want the other kids to be mad at him. Throw all the yearbooks away and don't replace them. Parents, tell your kids that some jerk kid ruined it for everyone. Before you know it, the culprit(s) will be identified by the other kids and then his parents can pay to reprint the yearbooks. You know whoever did it bragged about it. Easy fix.
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