Outrage over high-school yearbook’s references to drugs, sex, drinking

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Look closely at high-school yearbooks and you’ll find inside jokes and pop cultivation references only the kids understand.

Look closely at the Lake City High School yearbook in Coeur d’Alene and you’ll find all that

The psychedelic-themed yearbook hit the hallways last week, prompting a few students to ask their money back after discovery sexual insinuation and subtle

“I know teenagers are just renowned towards pushing limits,” said Hazel Bauman, Coeur d’Alene School District superintendent. “But there seems to be more isolated issues scattered through this yearbook than one would chance of the desired end in that kind of project.”

The $40 hardcover book resembles a Jimi Hendrix album cover, patience the title “The Lake City Experience” and featuring tie-dye and funky lettering on its parsimoniously 200 pages. The introduction page to the younger rank section is titled “Junior Haze all in my brain,” a regard to Hendrix’s hit song “Purple Haze.”

A few parents and students have complained approximately the cover and theme, but Bauman said it doesn’t appear students intended the thorough book to allude to drug use.

An apparent reference to being high on Ecstasy and the quotes from students touting marijuana obviously chouse. So hostile, four or five students have returned the main division for well stocked refunds, said Lake City Principal John Brumley.

“Unfortunately these are very unique pieces of memorabilia,” Brumley said. “There’s no do-over on it.”

Students James Thomes and Jeremy Guzman picked out several pictures and quotes in the book that they said have kids talking. One shows a swim team portion holding a stuffed animal’s leg in a sexually suggestive manner. A quote near the end of the book features the yearbook editor saying, “Puff quick blast pass … Oops did I just presume that in the yearbook?”

A photo of a group of friends has “rolling with the homies” written thwart it, with “I need a glass of water” aloft. Ecstasy users often say they are “rolling” when high on the unsalable article, which causes dehydration.

Coupled with an onslaught of spelling misprints, photos whose subjects are misidentified and excessive photos of staff members and their friends, the book has upset quite a few students, Guzman said.

Brumley wouldn’t comment on rumors that a yearbook staffer had switched out several pages at the last minute, but he said the objectionable parts appear to subsist “some fairly deliberate issues on the part of at least individual bookish man.”

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