More victim society

WAXAHACHIE — Waxahachie ISD officials and the high school senior at the center of a yearbook controversy have announced an agreement they hope will resolve the issue.

Administrators wrote a two-page letter apologizing to Shadoyia Jones for a mistake in which a photo caption in the 2004-2005 Waxahachie High School yearbook identified her simply as "Black Girl."

The caption sparked outrage in the community, and district officials quickly took action. The yearbook section that contained the photo was reprinted, and all Waxahachie High students were able to get the section replaced at school.

District officials also admitted that the yearbook's editors made a serious error.

"We will continue to investigate this matter," said Waxahachie superintendent James Wilcox. "Everything we've had up to this point said it was an incident of poor judgment."

Jones, who was accompanied at Wednesday morning's news conference by her mother and members of the Waxahachie-area NAACP chapter, said she was ready to put the matter to rest.

"I don't want this to interrupt my special day, and I just want everyone to be peaceful about this whole situation," Jones said Wednesday. "I don't want any confrontations; I just want my graduation to go smoothly."

Administrators also said they would revamp the district's policies about editing of the yearbook; faculty members will examine the yearbook more closely.

Graduation ceremonies will be held Friday.

An honest mistake, and the school is held hostage. I wonder what part was wrong, what part ofit she had a problem with? Was it "black"? OR "girl"?
So, now the school had to print 1000 copies of the insert page, and ask students to bring in their yearbooks to have the page replaced. If I was a student, I'd tell them to get bent.
And, according to news reports, the NAACP is considering 'legal action'. LEGAL ACTION!?!?!?! For what? A simple mistake? That's what yearbooks do. They use something to describe the student until they can fill in the name. Hell, maybe no one knew how to spell her name.
This is ridiculous.