Pages cut from HS yearbook due to "inappropriate" pictures of shirtless basketball players

[FLAprogressive]

SUMMERVILLE, GA (WRCB) - Some Chattooga (GA) High School students paid $50 in advance for their 2009 yearbook, but when they picked it up last week, four pages were cut out, literally.

They were told the pictures were inappropriate. We wondered, how bad could they possibly be? What type of photos were so scandalous, they had to be removed from an already-printed school yearbook?

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The yearbook was dedicated to former Chattooga teacher Dr. Alan Perry, who supervised the yearbook for the past 27 years. After he retired in May, a new principal and yearbook advisor didn't like what they saw: photos of shirtless boys playing basketball. So before distributing to students, they began the two-month process of cutting pages 11-14 out of every yearbook.

Dr. Perry, who was able to obtain an original, uncut version of the yearbook, posted the pages on his Facebook site. He said, "I'm very disappointed with the decision to mutilate a wonderful yearbook--a decision that was completely unnecessary. There was absolutely nothing inappropriate about the pages that were cut from the book; I am offended by the lack of regard shown for the students pictured on those pages, the students who worked on the yearbook staff last year, and most of all, the students who purchased the yearbook."

http://www.wrcbtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=11429823#

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Ridiculous. Don't you just love censorship?

[StarfarerBill]

1. Puritanism:

The disease that keeps on giving.

[dysfunctional press]

2. the new principal and yearbook advisor should have NO say...

the yearbook was for the school year before they were there. it has nothing to do with them.

[santa baby]

3. I can't imagine what the guys on the swim team wear...

:eyes: :grr:

[FLAprogressive]

5. lol good post.

[snagglepuss]

7. LoL

Thanks for the laugh.

[surrealAmerican]

13. Welcome to DU.

I was wondering that myself.

[drm604]

4. The students who purchased that yearbook should sue the new principal

for the price of new unmutilated books. He damaged their property, he should replace it.

[appleannie1]

6. The parents should press charges. He damaged their property.

[annabanana]

8. Georgia is crazy. . . . . n/t

[zappaman]

9. Pornography has no place in a high school yearbook!

The naked body is porn and has no place in a high school yearbook! If God had wanted us shirtless, he wouldn't have created shirts!!! Why is this so hard to understand?! Is everybody out there a pervert?!

[undeterred]

10. Did they leave the pictures of shirtless girls playing basketball

in the yearbook? :shrug:

[hunter]

11. It sounds as if Mr. Lenderman's behavior was inappropriate.

I'd advise my own teenagers to stay clear of this guy. He sets off my creep-o-meter.

[harkadog]

12. One of the pictures shows a boy holding another boy's head up to his groin.

Should the school ignore that? What about the boy's parents -- do you think they would be happy? No win situation.

[Renew Deal]

14. Is it appropriate to have pictures of topless guys in a yearbook?

I get that they're playing basketball, but I also understand the school's point of view. I'm not sure it's appropriate.