Student Places 'F Word' in Yearbook as Prank
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Updated: 9:27 PM May 27, 2009
Student Places 'F Word' in Yearbook as Prank
A Fort Walton Beach High School student is taking some heat for a prank that administrators say isn't funny. The senior slipped an obscenity into the school's yearbook.
Posted: 9:27 PM May 27, 2009
Reporter: Alex Denis

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Students at Fort Walton Beach High School aren't lining up to buy yearbooks like years past.
That's because administrators were forced to delay sales.
Principal Charlene Couvillon says a senior prank is to blame.
"Our AP Stats teachers sent me an e-mail saying there's no way this could be a random act. I thought ‘what is she talking about’. She said look at the book. There, sure enough, was the inappropriate caption."
Sprawled across two pages, a combination of red letters spelled out the "F word".
Couvillon immediately halted yearbook sales and launched an investigation.
She says the senior yearbook editor admitted the prank was her idea.
"If someone had asked me to write a list of all the students who could possibly have done this, where would she be? She would be at the bottom of the bottom quartile. I was devastated," Couvillon says.
The girl's parents paid the yearbook company to print stickers with new captions, to cover the obscenity.
As part of her punishment, the student had to apply those stickers to the remaining yearbooks.
The yearbook staff is known for creating award-winning yearbooks. Administrators say despite the 4 letter slip up the yearbook is still outstanding."
"To have four little letters that take up less than an inch have such an impact is devastating to all of us. The book is phenomenal and the students have worked terribly hard on it," says Yearbook Advisor Susan Teare.
Despite the student’s efforts to fix the prank, Teare says the damage is already done.
"I've always told the students that this book is a history of the school and it will be on shelves forever."
Couvillon says the student will be able to walk in her class’s graduation ceremony, but is still facing more disciplinary action.


Latest Comments

Posted by: Jessica Location: F-Dub on Jul 26, 2009 at 11:14 PM

they made such a big deal out of it... so unecessary... i think it was funny..
Posted by: Beard Location: Panama City Beach on Jun 19, 2009 at 05:13 AM

Leave the student alone. If this was all we,as a society,had to worry about how fortunate we would be. I can think of a long list of things that have occurred in the past 2 years that would have been worhty of the f bomb as a response. It is a word nothing more. Let the student express herself freely. Free speech as long as you say what they want you to! Have a nice day!!!
Posted by: Kat Location: Virginia on Jun 18, 2009 at 12:27 PM

LOL that is hilarious!!!! Go high schoolers!!! I agree, that is a great way of memories!!! LOLOLOLOLOLO
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