Yearbook Blacks Out Kids' Eyes for Fear of Porn Potential

There IS more to this story in WV. First of all, the parents don't get the money. Anyone who knows anything about a settlement for a minor should know, it has to be put in a fund for that said minor and canNOT be touch until that child is an adult. Second, the school board admitted liability in this case because they didn't have the correct safety measures in place. The child was hurt on a piece of lumber that was against the county's own safety standards. Instead of bringing playgrounds up to their own set standards, they decide to take them all down. Who's in the wrong here? Surely not the parents, who are not benefiting from this in any way, shape, or form. Before AOL, or anyone else wants to throw stones, they should, at the very least, get their facts straight. This is a simple case of an organization setting standards and not obiding by them. It's sad that when they have to pay the price of their own mistakes, they throw a tantrum (because that is essentially what taking down all the swings is) because someone made them accountable for their own inaction.
It truly cracks me up that this has made AOL news. It cracks me up even more that people believe anything and everything they read.

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Why do you think lawyers are considered one level above cell-pool scum?? Bringing a law-suit because a kid breaks his arm on a swing. Now none of the kids can go on a swing?? Do you blame the county for taking them out?? Next there will be no play area at all. The low-lifes sue for anything and everything-- something bad happens and someone is going to pay no matter what. The problem is all of us hard working saps end up paying for it while these attorneys are flying all around sking in there private planes.

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If the student paid for the yearbook, it's their property, not the school's and they should be sued for destruction of property

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Let me get this straight...a court awarded money to the family of a boy who jumped from a swing? Why wasn't the boy brought up on charges for endangering the other children who he could have potentially landed upon? It makes just about as much sense. THEN...the county school system removed all swings from their playgrounds because some stupid judge made this ruling? When did common sense become such a rare commodity? A child, whether rambunctious or not, can and usually does get injured on a playground. It's part of growing up...kinda like eating a little dirt. When did it become the job of our courts to demonize every toy and playground to 'protect' kids from being kids? Get over it, folks. You're NEVER going to protect ALL kids from everything.

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Maybe she is the pervert.

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Maybe she was afraid that their eyes would be used in Quiznos commercials. Now that's really creepy!

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Then why issue yearbooks in the first place !!!!

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If this had happened to one of my children, I would have personally sued the Principal and School for a new yearbook, and "Damages". At no point in time did that book belong to the School. It was ordered and paid for by each student PRIOR to publication. If no one had prepaid for a copy, that copy would not have been produced.

With respect to the child getting hurt on the swing; The swing and child could have been encircled with family and friends, but if the child still jumped off the swing, he would still have been hurt. I thought that lawsuits like this went out with the tide years ago.

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One has to wonder of what kind of mind can think like this. The way I see it, only the perverted think of perversions like this. So much that he is compelled to do something about it. Hmmmm. Maybe perhaps to curb his own "desires"?

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As Shakespeare said "...first, kill all the lawyers..."

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Hmmm... No anger at liberals who defend child abusers, and let them out of prison early under the guise of "reform"? Liberals openly support NAMBLA, and Hollywood LOVES to use underage children as models, or makes older models look underage. Write about that!

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Kill all the lawyers! Shakespere!

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That Principal shold be fired and forced to replace all the damaged yearbooks at her expense and hold an assembly with a written apology mailed to all the pareents for her stupid behavior. What an A-hole to even think such a thing. Soeone should check her background carefully and keep an eye on her in the future. We might see her name in the news soon as the most recent child molester in her neighborhood. Didn't her parents teach her as a child not to mark up, write in or deface books? Especially those that don't even belong to her? This makes me so angry. Who does she think she is?

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The solution to the casual sexual exploitation of women and children is clear and simple. We all adopt the Muslim practice of keeping all our females faces and bodies concealed all the time... except of course, for TSA examinations to make sure they are not carrying drugs or bombs.

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That has to be one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard. Caution, not panic should be used. I hope all the parents got new books with eyes included on their childrens pictures. As for the lawsuit and removing the swings - we definitely need a revamping of our laws. Our children should not be wrapped in Saran Wrap, but allowed to be kids - broken bones and all.

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This is what we have allowed our society to come to. We allow stupid liability law suits to enter our courts then our jurys find in favor of the petitioner. It will stay this was as long as we allow it to continue.
As for the principal, someone needs to escort that pervert out. The teachers need to grow a backbone and go to the school district board and tell them what is happening instead of following like little lost sheep being led to slaughter. Let's hope the board is smart than all that...

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Feel like this is the works of TSA. Scary.

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I broke my arm while playing touch football in phys. ed class while in the 10th grade. I tried to block a receiver and only got in his way. He was a little bigger than me and had a running start on me. I was standing still in the backfield. He ran right over me like I wasn't even there. The coach sent me to the nurses office, unescorted by the way, and she called my mother at home and told her I needed to go to the Dr. for xrays. Mom picked me up and we went to the doctor. At no time did anyone even think we should sue the boy, school or anyone else. Mom paid the Dr. for the xray, cast and visit. Six weeks later we went back to get the cast cut off. and that was the end of that. I collected a fair share of signatures, cartoons and dumb sayings and that's the end of the story. In the 50's and 60's it was very unusual to hear about anyone sueing anybody yet we survived. How did that happen?

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How absurd! These books are not sold on newstands, or by subscription to the general public. These are souvenirs and keepsakes for the families. I would hate to think how my school pictures might have been blacked out like this, what would be the point of the pictures or books to begin with? My 4 children went through school, graduates of college, and all through the years, with all of the yearbooks, class pictures, etc., not one child had ever been subjected to the horrible crimes that this principal foresees happening. Anyway, it looks like the trend nowadays for children's deaths has been at the hands of family, not strangers. Of course the predators are still out there, but who are we punishing, the children & families or the pedophiles? This principal needs a reality check. Let them black only her eyes out.....so people won't recognize this "idiot".

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I wonder if the WV parents have a swing set in their backyard...?

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