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Back in my day, this is what a decent yearbook photo looked like.

We all went to the same photographer, we all had the same pose, we all faked the academic achievements. Color? Bah! What did we care about color; we were all going to end up in Vietnam anyway.

It was a simpler time -- except for the war, choking smog from the mills, a river that ran red with the dye from the paper company, the lack of seat belts in cars,  and the constant threat of a nuclear bomb and all. Yearbook photos? Who had time to care about such trivia?

They sure care about yearbook photos out in the Red River Valley where, not having to spend any time worrying about a nuke dropping any minute, they can concentrate on whether the school must constitutionally accept a yearbook feature no matter how silly it's going to look at the 40th reunion.

Back in my day, a parent would pull the kid aside and say, "son, you've got a stupid-looking picture here."

Instead, the parent is calling for the principal's head at Fargo North because -- and you'll want to sit down for this -- the principal said, basically, "son, you've got a stupid-looking picture here."

Of course, Andy Dahlen couched it all in principal-speak, 

Mike McFeeley at Forum Communications writes today

The young man's father has turned to Facebook for support and -- you'll want to sit down for this, too -- 

The parent will meet with the  Fargo Public Schools administrator tomorrow, according to McFeeley.

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They sure care about yearbook photos out in the Red River Valley where, not having to spend any time worrying about a nuke dropping any minute, they can concentrate on whether the school must constitutionally accept a yearbook feature no matter how silly it's going to look at the 40th reunion.


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