From the Ypulse WTF Files

The Associated Press is reporting that after a photo spread showing students with body piercings and tattoos was published in Crothersville (Indiana) Junior-Senior High School yearbook, the principal now must approve all yearbook content before it is published. From the article:

"School Board member Ralph Hillenburg said he received three calls from people upset by the text and pictures and wanted those responsible for the design punished.

'To me it's a poor representation of our school to have these appear,' Hillenburg said.

Yearbook sponsor Zabrina Nicholson said the decision to report on piercings and tattoos was made when a number of teens came to 300-student school with new piercings and tattoos.

Terry Goodin, superintendent of the school district some 40 miles north of Louisville, Ky., said the yearbook must be approved by the principal.

Goodin said there is no content-based board approval needed for publishing the yearbook, which is largely funded by advertising sales.

Principal Tom Judd said he would review all yearbook pages in the future.

'It will never happen again,' Judd said.

Hillenburg said he believed students in the photographs were violating the school's dress code.

'If it's inappropriate in the dress code, it's inappropriate in the yearbook,' he said.

Nicholson said the dress code did not include a ban on facial piercings or tattoos."

WTF????

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