Parents at a New Jersey high school are outraged that their kids’ yearbook photos were Photoshopped to remove pro-Trump slogans on their clothing.
One student at Wall HS had the “TRUMP Make America Great Again” motto deleted from his T-shirt, while a junior classmate had his fleece “Trump” vest sanitized. A third student, the freshman class president, was stunned to see that her selected quote — a Trump utterance — never made it to print.
“I want all the yearbooks reissued. Everybody gets a brand-new yearbook,” fumed Joseph Berardo, whose 17-year-old son, Grant, donned the Trump T-shirt on picture day last fall.
“And I want a letter from the administration explaining why the yearbooks are being reissued, and it should be used as a teaching moment related to the First Amendment in civil discourse,” the father added.
Berardo bought $110 worth of photos of Grant in his “historic” T-shirt, but the Trump slogan was gone when his son received his yearbook on Thursday.
The dad said he made sure there were no dress-code restrictions before Grant wore the MAGA shirt. “It was the first election he took an interest in, and it was an interesting way to memorialize it,” the disappointed father said.
Berardo noted that a student wearing a New Jersey Devils shirt and a kid in a Led Zeppelin tee weren’t censored. Neither was a student in a Reagan-Bush shirt who appeared in a candid group shot. He also recalled Barack Obama T-shirts in past yearbooks.
“I don’t think there was a deep-seated plot here, but I think there’s a yearbook committee and a yearbook adviser, and somewhere in the mix someone or several people decided to censor three students,” Berardo said. “The fact that the committee found it OK to censor the president’s name or anything that wasn’t offensive is just wrong.”
Berardo told The Post he has a scheduled sit-down with Principal Rosaleen Sirchio and yearbook advisor Susan Parsons on Monday.
Parsons told The Post, “We have never made any action against any political party.” When asked if she knew who scrubbed the Trump images, she said, “I’m going to hang up.”
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New Jersey School to Reissue Yearbooks with Students Wearing Pro-trump Shirts Photos were altered to remove President Donald Trump’s name on their clothing Fox News - June 16, 2017 4 Comments
A New Jersey school district announced it will reissue yearbooks after photos of two high school students were altered to remove President Donald Trump’s name on their clothing.
One photo was intentionally altered although it did not violate the school’s dress code, Cheryl Dyer, Wall Township School Superintendent, wrote in a letter to the school’s parents. The other picture was resized to match others, and it does not appear that was intentionally done to remove Trump’s name.
The school district regards free speech and “does not condone any censorship of political views on the part of our students,” Dyer said in an earlier letter.
Grant Berardo, a junior at Wall Township High School, wore a blue graphic t-shirt that said “TRUMP Make America Great Again” but the yearbook photo depicted the student as wearing a solid color shirt
yer has not been able to determine why a Trump quote submitted by the freshman class president, Montana Debrovich-Fago, was not included, according to NJ.com. The quote read, “I like thinking big. If you are going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.”
"The yearbook adviser has been suspended with pay." huh??? that's a paid position???
"The demographic most opposed to President Trump is not a racial minority, but a cultural elite." Daniel Greenberg
"Failure to adequately denounce Islamic extremism, not only denies the existence of an absolute moral wrong but inherently diminishes our chances of defeating it." Tulsi Gabbard
"It’s a movement comprised of Americans from all races, religions, backgrounds and beliefs, who want and expect our government to serve the people, and serve the people it will." Donald Trump's Victory Speech 11/9/16
INSIDE EVERY LIBERAL IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT -- Frontpage mag