Parents Upset After School Yearbook Lists George W. Bush, Dick Cheney as Worst People of All Time
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Cutest couple. Most likely to succeed. Class Clown. Top 5 Worst People of All Time.
OK, so that last list probably isn't seen in most school yearbooks, but it's raising the ire of parents and community members in Arkansas. The Fox affiliate in Little Rock reports the names in the Russellville Middle School yearbook include, in order, Adolph Hitler, Osama bin Laden, Charles Manson, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.
Parents were outraged when they discovered the list, according to the station, and, in reaction, the school district had the list covered with black duct tape.
Superintendent Randall Williams says the printing of the list was "an oversight," Fox 16 reports, and said he was disappointed to learn the tape could simply be peeled off the page.
"I'm furious as a parent and as a board member and as a tax payer and as a resident of Russellville," School Board Member Chris Cloud, who has two children in the district, tells the station. "It's wrong."
Williams tells Fox 16 the yearbook sponsor -- a teacher -- is "very, very, very" upset that she didn't pay more attention to the page with the list, and that the yearbook editing process is being reviewed.
"I think she maybe just scanned the whole page and went on," he tells the station, adding that he can't talk about disciplinary action.
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ReaderComments (Page 1 of 53)
6-02-2011 @ 11:15AM
Katty said...I don't understand the uproar. The yearbook is for the kids and if that's how they feel, then that's how they feel. Do I agree with the list, no, but my perspective is different. It's not the community's yearbook, it's something created by the students for the students and the "public" should butt out.
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6-02-2011 @ 2:09PM
Leslie said...The truth hurts sometimes
A middle school yearbook in Arkansas has created controversy around the country after it named Former President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney in a list of the "worst" people of all time.
The yearbook included a list titled the "Top 5 worst people of all time." The list begins with Adolph Hitler, Osama Bin Laden, Charles Manson, but then lists Bush and Cheney.
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Students didn't vote on the list, and it was taken from an opinion website. Parents in the community are outraged.
"I'm furious as a parent and as a board member and as a tax payer and as a resident of Russellville," resident Chris Cloud said. "It's wrong."
Parents spotted the list after the yearbooks were printed. The school's solution was to cover the list with tape.
The superintendent said the yearbook's editing process is under review.
6-02-2011 @ 2:09PM
James said...I can't believe parents even pay for or give their kids $ to pay for yearbooks these days. You don't stay in touch with people years after school and they're not even gonna care about the yearbooks later. Spend smart whatever you choose - HtTp://bit.ly/Key2Free - at least hep your kids to see what smart spending is, buying yearbooks or not.
6-02-2011 @ 2:15PM
Ralph said...Did anyone proofread this article before it was published. I think not.
6-02-2011 @ 2:29PM
Joycd said...You have to be kidding. This could open up such a can of worms. These kids are not adults yet and you have seen the results of what goes on in schools when kids who are not thinking as adult do and say terrible things. The Bully issue, the fights, the things that are said on facebook. Yes the yearbook is not just about the kids it also gives information about the schoolyear for the parents who are paying for all of this. This kind of thing does not belong in the yearbook. The sports information, proms, pictures, clubs and on and on but not a political publication. How many of us would say and do the things we did in high school if we really look back honestly. Now is when we need to clean up some of the stuff that is going on in our schools and make them a place of learning again.
6-02-2011 @ 8:30PM
E. T. Malone, Jr. said...I agree with Katty. This is no big deal. The yearbook is for the kids, and they are entitled to have their opinions in a land supposedly providing freedom of expression.
6-02-2011 @ 2:24PM
donna said...Katty ... get a grip! You know the students didn't come up with that.
6-02-2011 @ 2:23PM
Nancy said...I completely agree with Kathy. Censorship will only disguise the truth. If the kids feel that way why should they hide it? If parents and educators don't agree then find an intelligent way to prove your point otherwise. This will encourages communication, and maybe next time you will know ahead of time what your kids really think.
6-02-2011 @ 3:15PM
Jim said...It's no brain attitudes like yours that allow distortion of the real world to go on. Ideas like these can only come from the very dangerous far left "teachers" who are cramming this crap into the heads of the young.
6-02-2011 @ 2:37PM
jojo said...we are raising a sick bunch of kids!!! G-d help us Katie I hope your children dont share that opinion
6-02-2011 @ 2:35PM
burrus1206 said...get serious...., nobody believes your anything but a fuzzy headed liberal to defend such ignorant behavior.
even a fool knows that fdr's imprisonment of 160,000 japanese- americans during ww2 far outweighed any immoral conduct by bush and cheney..., truman's decision to drop atomic bombs on TWO japanese cities, instantly incinerating more than 100,000 civilians comes in second (and makes bin laden's action look like childsplay.
of course, them being democrats obviously pardons them in your crazy, liberal mind.
6-02-2011 @ 2:39PM
MIKE said...katty--you have got to be kidding with that comment.
6-02-2011 @ 6:52PM
Tim said...They're right. Why censor something that is correct in every way?
6-02-2011 @ 2:42PM
Bilbo said...I attribute Bush and Cheney being on the top 5 Worst person list to the liberal left-leaning viewpoint of the teachers within the public school system. I think its a shameful disgrace that High School children are equating recent US Presidents with some of humanity's biggest monsters. Where would they learn to make such judgements? The common ground is what they are being taught in the classroom .Its an epidemic of hate that's not being monitored at all, and as shocking as these comparisons are, this is just one High School! I shudder to think what every High School's list would look like. Wake up America!
6-02-2011 @ 2:42PM
Ray Kinsella said...Talk about a prejudice, sexist, racist list. Least diverse list I ever seen. At least my highschool year book was more realistic. We had Obama 1# followed by Hitler, Bin Laden, Queen Mary, Pol Pot.
6-02-2011 @ 2:48PM
Shawn said...Sorry, Katty, but "it that's how they feel" at that young age than someone has been brainwashing them to "feel" that way.
I as a parent would be outraged as well. "Progressives," keeping religion out of schools means keeping your "progressive" religion out as well.
6-02-2011 @ 2:47PM
desertnonna said...The children "feel" that way because they have been taught to hate Bush and Cheney from their left leaning teachers, whose salaries by the way are paid by the parents of these children. Instead of indoctrinating our children with their political views, teachers should instead concentrate on what they are being paid to do, that is make sure that every "graduate" knows how to read, write, use proper English and last but not least, know how to do math.
6-02-2011 @ 4:42PM
Joseph Baker said...Who told these children of these names? Are the teachers BIASED to Bush and Chenney? I would have to say so! If the teachers are telling these kids THEIR opinion, instead of the facts, then there is a problem! Wouldnt you say? Noone should PREACH their opinions to children, just show them how to read, write and do math, and learn the truth from history! Not a history distorted in the minds of opinionated teachers!