Why is Shaker Heights high school yearbook making headlines in the news?
Students reading their Shaker Heights High School yearbook noticed something strange while reading it: someone managed to sneak an F-Bomb on the cover. A graduating Shaker Heights student who designed the yearbook cover managed to sneak the letters “FY ALL” on the cover, a subtle way of sneaking the message “F–k Y’All” to his classmates and staff. The F-Bomb is cleverly concealed amid a drawing of “Red Raider” mascots on the yearbook cover. Principal Michael Griffith said distribution of the Shaker Heights yearbook had been suspended and that “cosmetic surgery” will be done on the books to blot out the obscenity on the yearbook cover. The blotting out of the F-Bomb brings to mind the infamous incident involving former Major League baseball player Billy Ripken, who accidentally had the words “F–k Face” appear on his baseball card. Baseball card makers Fleer then blotted out the offending message in future editions of the card. Students didn’t seem to upset by the Shaker Heights F-Bomb
High school students in a posh Cleveland, Ohio suburb already know who deserves the superlative “Most likely to write the F-word in school yearbook.” Shaker Heights High School administrators discovered the hidden obscenity in an student’s creative rendition of the school’s “Red Raider” mascot – which was used as the cover art for the school yearbook. “You have to turn it upside down and then it is right there,” incoming senior Katie Rownd told the local television news station WJW-TV. The schools’ principal sent a letter to parents with an apology from the offending artist, who has already graduated. “I cannot begin to explain the miserable feeling I brought upon myself when I betrayed the trust of all of you,” the student wrote, according to a report in the news site Cleveland.com. The school will out a new version of the book that conceals the profanity. Read more:
