as horrifying as that sounds to me as another parent, right here and now, you have to kind of think ten or twenty years down the road when she's going to dig that thing out. What will be her reaction to it then?? Will it trigger fond memories or is it something she might considering burning because she's so disgusted with it?? How do you feel about your yearbook NOW, and do you think your daughter's will engender pleasant thoughts when she gets it out and shows her own children??

Unfortunately, I have to agree with Rose. The screw-up's already a done deal. Maybe your daughter and her friends could get together and do something privately for each other which will be a better source of memories, before they are lost completely. They can all get their favourite photos together and colour copy them and create unique scrapbooks for themselves of the best school memories. It won't replace a good yearbook, but it's better than looking at the abomination in the future and wishing she'd done something else at the time.

And I agree with you complaining to the principal. Maybe next time the yearbooks will be more carefully scrutinised so nobody else hsa such an awful thing to pay for.

FYI - we don't have yearbooks in the UK, just one big group photo. It's an American thing, but since everyone has them it would be a shame if you daughter didn't have anything she was proud to show off.

Kerri.