Spinoff- High school Yearbook

[WVMomof3]

Just wanted to see how many people get there yearbook before the end of the school year. When I was in school, we got ours the last week of school. I think we got a spring supplement later. My daughter's yearbook is given out usually the day or so before school begins the next year. I see some people are saying this also. That just seems weird to me. She will likely be an editor when she is a senior, I keep telling her she should suggest a change in the distribution dates. Most of the seniors are already off to college when they are given out, so a lot don't bother to buy one.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

I went to 3 high schools. 2 received in late spring. 1 waited to include prom and graduation. I moved, so my friend picked mine up and had my friends sign it before she sent it to me. I don't remember what they did for seniors.

Personally, while it was a bummer to not get the book until fall, I much preferred the CURRENT year graduation and prom and not the last year's stuff. So all these years later, I would have liked my graduating class ceremony's pics in there. I don't care quite as much about the signings.

ETA: you forgot an other so I cannot answer the poll. ;-)

 

[NHdisneylover]

We always got our yearbooks during the last week of school.

The fun of the yearbook is having your friends sign it--how would seniors (or anyone who moves) be able to do that if you didn't get it until the next year

20+ years later, I will still flip though mine every year or so, and it is those wacky things my friends wrote to me that I stop to read--not any of the yearbook articles.

 

[usd2bmd]

I and my daughter rec'd it before the end of the school year and there were never pictures from graduation or prom included. Not even from the previous year.

 

[kgsmith]

When I was in school, we received yearbooks before the end of the school year. In the summer, they'd send out a supplement with prom and graduation photos. There was an adhesive strip on the supplement so we could attach it to the last page of the yearbook.

Now my son doesn't get his until October of the following school year.

 

[ashley0139]

I was editor-in-chief of mine, and we distributed them a couple weeks before the end of the school year. Graduation was never included.

 

[barkley]

we always got ours about a week before school ended-same with my kids. I don't think either had any prom photos-and defiantly not graduation photos. I don't really see the sense of graduation photos since the seniors always tend to get a proportionally higher number of pages in the book anyway.

 

[bigbabyblues]

We got ours late in the summer or right after school started the next year. How else would graduation be included? The school I work in now is the same way. The last submit date for the publishing company until June 1, and school was out May 23.

 

[LBIJim]

Received mine the last week or so before graduation. Seniors carried it around for all their friends and teachers to sign.

Cap and gown graduation photos, taken about the same time as yearbook photos the previous spring or fall, were included in the graduation program.

No prom photos included in yearbook, nor were any supplements issued.

Jim

 

[cfriend416]

Always the last week or so of school. There were never graduation pictures, but prom pictures from the previous year were included. We only had a junior prom, so it wasn't like there were pictures of people who had already graduated.

 

[luvsJack]

DD gets her's several weeks before school is out, it was the same when I was in school. The last couple of weeks are spent getting all her classmates to sign them, especially any seniors she is friends with.

 

[Gumbo4x4]

DD was on the yearbook staff for Middle School this year & they got theirs about a week before school let out. All my HS ones came a month or so into the following school year.

 

[powellrj]

I got mine at homecoming the fall after graduation. My kids went to a different school than I did and my DD went to a different school than her brothers and hers is the same way.

 

[mamacatnv]

Before the start of the following year seems stupid to me. We never had prom or grad pictures in ours, it was everything else that went on during the year and we got them a week or two before the end of the year, same for my DS and now DD. I'd be annoyed to have to wait until the next school year - people move etc and summer is the big change schools season.

 

[Wendy31]

Our yearbooks were distributed during registration week of the next school year - graduation & other end-of-the-year events were always a part of the yearbooks, so we had to wait.

I was assistant editor my junior year & editor my senior year - those last couple of weeks of school were always fun trying to get everything done & ready to be published. We would even meet a couple of times after the school year ended in order to get those final events in the yearbook.

The school still does it this way - although now it's all on the computer, of course, so it's easier to get everything laid out & completed. I remember having to do everything w/ wax pencils, rulers, & triplicates! One mistake, & you had to start all over!

Anyway, the 1st week of my senior year was when we got our yearbooks from our junior year. And that's the yearbook that had all the signatures from my senior year. My yearbook from my senior year actually has just a few signatures.

And the unfortunate thing is my junior yearbook was destroyed when our basement garage flooded one year. I had all my yearbooks from 1st grade through my junior year of high school stored in a cardboard box in our garage... and they were all destroyed. The only one I still have is my senior year yearbook which was stored w/ some other stuff - but, again, there aren't really any signatures in my senior yearbook.

Funny aside... DH & I went to the same school & graduated together, but we weren't "together" at the time. In my yearbook, he wrote, "Have a nice life." LOL!

Thank you; I did. We are.

 

[keiraliz]

At my high school, we got our yearbooks a couple of weeks before the end of the school year. Graduation photos were never included in the yearbook. All graduating seniors received their professional photos (one class photo [I went to a small school], one cap and gown photo, and one photo of the graduate receiving his or her diploma) during the summer.

 

[indimom]

Ours was always delivered about a month after school started the following school year. I was on our yearbook staff and we worked very hard on it all year.

The yearbook staff attended journalism camps in the summer to learn more about putting out an excellent yearbook, had a full class period every day to work on it, and still spent a lot of time outside of class completing the book (especially the spring sports and events).

When I was a senior, I worked on the yearbook every period of the final week that I didn't have a final exam. We usually finished editing the book and turned the final pages in about two-three weeks after school ended because some of the spring sports hadn't finished. We had sports teams going to state after the school year had ended, you bet we wanted to feature that in our yearbook.

I'm pretty surprised how many things must have been left out for these yearbooks to be published BEFORE the school year ended? Were these hardback books or just those tiny soft-sided products? Ours was hard sided and over 200 pages, it had an index so you could find every page you were quoted on or had a picture on, and we sold ad space at the back of the book to cut down on the cost to the students. We sold ads for the yearbook before school started each year and for about a month into the school year.

Our yearbook won several awards during the years I was in high school.

 

[cfriend416]

Ours was hard sided and over 200 pages, it had an index so you could find every page you were quoted on or had a picture on, and we sold ad space at the back of the book to cut down on the cost to the students. We sold ads for the yearbook before school started each year and for about a month into the school year.

Ours were exactly like that and still came out at the end of the school year. Major spring sports events were put in next year's book. I would have much rather had some events missing and get it at the end of the year than have to wait until the next school year for it.

 

[dsneprincess]

Ours were exactly like that and still came out at the end of the school year. Major spring sports events were put in next year's book. I would have much rather had some events missing and get it at the end of the year than have to wait until the next school year for it.

Agreed. I have never heard of the next school year until I read through this thread. Aha, the things I learn on the Dis.

 

[mjkacmom]

Hmm, at our schools, there are 3 yearbooks - 6th grade, 8th grade, and senior year, and all come out during the last couple of weeks of school, so they can be signed.