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It Was Hard This Year to Keep Politics Out of High School Yearbooks

Posted on Tuesday, May 23rd, 2017 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Dan Goldstein, NY Times
Date: 5/21/2017
Link: Complete Article

A high school yearbook is a keepsake. Like an Instagram filter, it’s meant to bathe recent memories in the warm, soft-focus glow of nostalgia. As an object, it evokes affection and community; you hope to show it to your children and grandchildren someday. A yearbook isn’t supposed to be divisive.

So how to commemorate a school year that coincided with a meltdown in decorum in American politics?

That was the question high school yearbook editors and their advisers had to ask themselves while they were busy gathering up mug shots of the seniors, quotes, and group photographs of the football team, the cheerleading squad and the chess club.

Continue Reading at NY Times

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: American politics, election, yearbook

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