Glen Cove High School Prints Error-Ridden Yearbook

A yearbook is something that any high school graduate will look back on with fond memories and nostalgia.

For students at Glen Cove High School, this year’s book of memories will be covered with tape to hide the several printing errors.

Members of the community have voiced their thoughts on the issue on social media, and many are not happy that they paid $100 for a yearbook with so many errors.

Others feel that the tape has highlighted the mistakes that, they say, were not that noticeable in the first place.

The Glen Cove School District was aware of the issue and said that a reprint would have “taken too long” and would have “left students without a yearbook for graduation.” The school made the decision to keep the error-filled yearbooks based on this reasoning.

The mother of a Glen Cove senior told Patch that the tape covering the errors made the yearbook look “ten times worse.” She said some of the errors weren’t noticeable and should have been left alone.

Some of the errors covered with tape include:

• Glen Cove High School: the “G” was bigger than the rest of the letters.
• T.V Show Thursday: the second period in “T.V.” was left out.
• Tri M Honor Society: there was no hyphen between “Tri” and “M.”

This is not the first year the Glen Cove Yearbook includes errors. The mother of a Glen Cove senior said she once paid for a yearbook that forgot to include her daughter’s name.

While the students who worked on the yearbook are getting some slack from parents, “It’s really not all their fault,” the Glen Cove mother said.

Local printer Alexander Papas told Patch in a Facebook message that he thinks the community is being hard on the kids.

“Most people have never dealt with editing a large publication, so they don’t understand how difficult spotting errors can be when you don’t do it often,” Papas said. “I know a bit about this kind of situation and these things happen often.”

The Glen Cove School District sent Patch the following statement regarding the issue:

“The district was made aware of mistakes in the yearbook and took action immediately to rectify the issue. The district exhausted multiple alternatives and a reprint of the yearbook would have taken too long and left students without a yearbook for graduation. Instead special stickers were used to cover spelling errors. We now have procedures in place to ensure this does not happen again.”

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