By Adrien Corona, News Editor | March 22nd, 2024
So, most of the seniors are getting close to graduating from Carson High, and obviously, the majority of the seniors are excited because of the perks and the pride of accomplishment. There’s also the activities that they are entitled to, and of course, highlighting themselves in the yearbook with the iconic quotes that they can leave to represent themselves and their legacy. Their future selves will probably either get a laugh or be an inspiration to them.
Recently, there is an issue.
Here is a part of the backstory:
You know, teens are gonna teen, and be a bit rancid and dumb with their quotes and some will obviously never see the light of day in an actual yearbook. It's a given-you're in a high school, so of course, you'd expect that.
The solution is simple. Just delete these outrageous quotes, ban the creators from having quotes, then move on.
Our principal, and the editors of the yearbook had to face this issue last year and this year, because of course, once again, teens.
This year, our principal was fed up with the issue. So, Dr. Faatai dealt with it as she saw fit, but now, we have another issue facing us.
She decided that all of our quotes must be literature based, like from a poem, book, or from some sort of religious scripture. All for the sake of making the quotes educational and a "perfect" representation of our good-hearted school.
You know, the same one that has an ongoing fighting issue, and smoking problem-our school (to be fair, this is probably a generational issue that many schools today face).
The question is: is this the complete opposite way to deal with the small, minute crowd of kids who want attention from the yearbook and the principal? The obvious solution was the solution they kept before, so that the others can have their own fun with senior quotes allowing them the freedom to leave their legacy, or show love to a song, remembrance of a show, nod to a favorite movie, or acknowledgement of a well-loved celebrity.
"Well, we came up to her to review the senior quotes. What she found out was that a few senior quotes were inappropriate…[and] last year she had to deal with inappropriate quotes."said CHS senior Christian Delacruz. “But she didn't want to endure it at all this year…so she made a new rule regarding the senior quotes that she wanted to do, which is having literature based senior votes.”
Delacruz feels as if the new guidelines are a little odd, but other editors of the yearbook slightly understand why this new rule was put in place even if they still think they're could've been a better way.
Others shared their disagreement by saying that they believe that the quotes are too boring and that a yearbook should be allowed to show the true personalities of our students.
Ultimately, it is sort of a shame that seniors don't even have the ability to put, mostly, whatever they want to represent their true authentic selves due to a few bad apples in the Google docs.