Fine lesson in censorship there Piercy.
A Vancouver Island board of education has decided to reprint a middle-school's yearbooks after a teacher took scissors to 150 copies last week and clipped out the photo of a Grade 10 student because of comments he made about the school principal.
Comox Valley board chair Susan Barr told the Vancouver Sun the decision to reprint the yearbook was made after a public outcry that included hate mail sent to principal Lori Carpenter, even though she had not been involved in the decision to remove Brandon Armstrong's picture.
Barr said she does not know what it will cost to reprint the yearbook, but there will be no charge for students.
"It is a cost the district will gladly bear," she said. "We want to put things right."
Teacher Ken Piercy, who was in charge of the yearbook committee, cut out Brandon's photo and comment because he said the boy had falsely accused the principal of spending money on a fence instead of textbooks.
"I will not allow anything to be published that is hurtful and untrue," Piercy stated in an insert placed in the defaced yearbooks.
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