your opinion please

Well, you always have the right to be appalled, but I'm confused. Are you appalled because nipple piercing is icky, or because you don't think pictures of a boy's nipple should be displayed, or... ?

To me, that yearbook sounds merely clumsy, pretentious, and at least a little stupid. (Come to think of it, that would have been a pretty good description of me as a teenager. )

-- Cam

I don't care what people have pierced...I do not think it is appropriate for a high school yearbook

I know you can even have even wilder 'things' pierced,,,nothing I would do but thats me.

I know this book is for the kids but I still think it is a mistake

you can say , all of the above and horribly shy about me

[by the way all of the other yrs books were great

However, the ink is already dry. You can't change the content now.

BUT ...

This can now become an exercise in values clarification for your daughter, and a springboard for discussion about piercing, tattoos, modesty, and good taste. How does your daughter feel about the yearbook?

Sigh. I had purple hair in high school. I'm glad that body piercing wasn't available in those days. Who knows what I would have done for the sake of teenage angst and rebellion?

Rose

well she doesn't like it either...for her its the whole book [done badly]

she herself is quite modest

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.

Kerri,,,you hit the nail on the head. I think that 10 yrs from now even the yearbook staff are going to say 'what were we thinking'

yes I know each generation has their 'own thing' I was a bit of a hippie. I look at my yr books and I do with my kids and I can be proud of my school. I don't know if my DD will be able to say that.

there are around 3,000 kids at this school and I don't think that they have been represented very well. Thats the problem also,,,this is how they are represented. The page said 'expessing ourselves...I did not see any other kind of expression on th epages,,,just tatoos and piercings. Now remember I don't care if people do it,,,its just that I feel it it a bit much for a yrbook

any other opinions??

It's too bad that good taste and good journalism have to be thrown away in the cause of attempted hip-ness. Can't they all peacefully co-exist?

it was a new woman this year. I think maybe she was either swayed by the kids or she herself was in the lets shock em mode. I have a problem with the principal accepting this . Also that the WHOLE book is bad.

Perhaps a comment to the principal would be in order. It would be especially meaningful for your daughter to express her disgust also. Everytime I have doubts of whether or not faith-based private education is worth the money, I just have to hear about these little annoyances and I'm grateful for the policies the administration has over the school.

Btw, I've read many reports that modesty in clothing is on the way back in fashion. Hopefully we'll see less midriffs and more age-appropriate dress. sigh!