Poor: Not Pictured

If you didn't submit a professional picture to Nathan Hale High School's Yearbook, you didn't get in reports the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:

------------------------------------New Nathan Hale High School graduates who flip through their yearbooks this summer may be surprised to find something missing: about a quarter of the senior class photos.

Nearly one in four Hale seniors weren't pictured in the annual because they didn't submit professional portraits, the only kind accepted by the school this year for inclusion in the yearbook.

Hale Principal Lisa Hechtman called the omissions "an embarrassing gaffe" that had created "some definite heartache on behalf of at least some of the students" who weren't pictured.

Getting professional photos taken is often part of the pomp and circumstance of senior year, and many seniors choose to purchase elaborate photo packages. Hale seniors could submit one of their "senior photos," or pay $15 to have a yearbook head shot taken at school in the fall.

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I think I have to lay most of the blame at the feet of the yearbook staff. Putting "Not Pictured" in that many times should have told them that something was wrong, and policy or not they needed to find a way to fix the problem.