Students upset over racist yearbook prank

That is ridiculous--and all the school did was give them stickers to put over the fake names?

They need to reprint everyone's yearbook, free of charge, and make the student who wrote the fake names pay for it.

What do you wanna bet that the parents of the students who perpetrated the pranks will be rewarding their kids, until there is some kind of punishment that might effect the parents?

Racism is taught, not inherited.

I work at a school and a teacher always checks the final submission before the yearbook gets printed. Someone was not doing their job.

That's awful. They should have reprinted everyone's yearbooks. These things last for decades! Think how we're going to look back on this 10, 20, and 30 years from now.

Uncalled for.

Unnecessary.

Unbelievable.

Irresponsible.

Illogical.

Dysfunctional.

Disgrace.

Disrespectful.

Down right dirty shame.

The adults in charge of the yearbook program should lose their jobs for starters. The school should pay to have ALL the yearbooks to be reprinted with the proper names and any other corrections that need to be made and redistribute the new set to the student body. Then we can talk about restitution stemming from pain and suffering of the BSU students.

How did no one catch this??

This is crazy.

That’s the public school system for you.

I'm sure they really thought it was funny. In college, I got alot of these jokes my way, the neck moves, the "Gurrrlfriend", and all other perpetuated stereotypical jokes and comments they had no idea was quite offensive. I used to get mad, but now I just pray I don't do it myself.

i'm honestly not a fan of ethnic school organizations, s.f. state university hosts separate graduation ceremonies for black, filipino, chinese, and latino students and probably more. it appears to me to just segregate people even more.

while i'm personally opposed to such ethnic identification in a public forum to begin with, this prank is outrageous and even more surprising that it happened in southern california.

my guess is the yearbook staff had a particularly juvenile sense of humor, not terribly egregious prejudice. also, if the student body were any more than the 5% black that it is, i doubt anyone could have gotten away with (or wanted to) offend so many people.

F- for all involved in this "prank".

You lose. Good day, sir!

How did the school approve it in the first place? Sickening.

Varex_Sythe is right, "Racism is taught, not inherited." However, in a hidden way it is the legacy some would leave to others.
These are the stories that convince me the physical scars I would inflict upon the person or persons responsible would seem like fond memories compared to the scars these students now have.

and thats why yearbooks are bullshit. i didnt bother buying mine.

Such a shame. The yearbook staff ought to reprint the book and get rid of the person who thought this was going to be funny.

What are we teaching are kids at home?

Crisphy Nanos?

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Ha! Yes stephensthomson...I was curious if anyone else was wondering what the hell that means...

I'm all for school pranks, but only ones that are actually funny. No humor whatsoever in this one, guys. Take a page from George Carlin and at least try some sophisticated humor. Even shows like Family Guy and South Park deal with race issues in more clever ways.

That is horrible. o_____o
How did ANYONE think that would be funny?!

"Charter Oak High School's Black Student Union"? Why does a High School have a "Black Student Union"? Is their a Charter Oak High School "White Student Union"? It seems that this stupid and offensive stunt was pulled done by a white student. Do we know this for certain?

This is so disgusting! It is a blatant act of racism yet there is no secure action being taken against those who did it.

its not just the person who did it that is at fault here. in a yearbook staff it goes from the editor of the section, to the journalism editor, to the editor and chief, to the advisor of the book and then sometimes to the school administrators. so by saying that one person should pay for the reprint of say roughly 1300 books means they would be shelling out almost $60,000. that is too harsh for one person but the school district should fund it.

My hands are shaking as I type this ... I am dumbfounded, angry and sickened at the response to this. How could they make the victims of this horrible act of racism pass out the stickers? Argghhhhh!!!

If it had been a more "all-offending term" such as the "F" word or other ones a few times...it would have been unanimously voted to be reprinted $60,000 or not.

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a book burning protest is needed.

well...they wouldnt be allowed to sign my yearbook!

Meh. Garden variety stupidity.

Crisphy Nanos is roommates with Cheeny Torrita and Deliphcios Burrnito.

I just called the school principal and left her a message detailing my disgust ...

That's fucked up.

What it sounds like to me is that this "GREEK" text place holder was put in place in distaste and meant to be later replaced with the student's actual names and was not corrected. A shameful editorial oversight. If the school dose not replace all 2k yearbooks ill be very dissapointed.

Horrible!!!!!

this kind of thing definitely isn't new.. my friend was just showing me her yearbook the other day and explained why the first page's collage was cut out. apparently, some girls drew mustaches on other girls, profanities over their heads, and other inappropriate drawings. her school, however, dealt with the issue much better than this one. they recalled the yearbooks and cut out the pages. any important pages, they reprinted and supplied them to the students to stick into the book. that way they didn't have to reprint all of the books.

the victims still decided to sue the girls, which i can totally understand. but kids are kids and kids will be kids, no matter how disrespectful :[
i mean i could make a comment about the sad state of america's children, but everyone makes mistakes, yah? <3

"What else can you do?" asked Probst. "It would be nice to snap a magic finger, but I think it was incredibly well done" [in how the school handled the issue].

I sense a two-term W. Bush voter. Fucking idiot.

I think each and everyone of those responsible for such an incredibly racist, stupid and hurtful "prank" ought to be made to pay to have that page fixed and have the entire yearbook be reprinted in its entirety for each and every student, teacher, and parent that ordered one.

then they ought to be made to wear signs that read,
"i'm a rascist" everyday that school is in session once they are back in school after their suspension!! If those that were responsible graduated, then their names need to be sent with a letter detailing such heinous behavior to every college in the country.

it's really hard to believe that this is the state that america's children are in. i don't believe this kind of this behavior is tolerable. the fact that the adults in the school treated this like any other minute isolated incident is what makes this even more disgusting and reprehensible. what is it going to take for someone, anyone to accept responsibility and a fitting punishment for the 'crime'?

i am shocked at the story and i am WAY MORE shocked at some of your responses( bloggers). just shows how america is not done with race issues. WOW guys!!!!