I gotta admit its pretty funny, but why didn't they just make him stand off to the side and not be in the picture at all?

Oh yeah. FTFA:"While the photographer, David Claussen, would not agree to go on camera, he told WPLG that he never meant to cause such controversy and that he was only following orders"

"We were only following orders" will be carved into the gravestone of humanity, right alongside "This is being done for your protection"

nrdgrl: Florida tag was blurred out, too, I guess.

^ tru dat

"I'm sort of an expert at Photoshop."

Why waste tax payer money by retaking the picture when the kid can just wear that mask for the rest of his life?

I've learned in therapy, you can't change the world, you have to change yourself.

doesn't matter what it is, or how it's handled, black people will find a reason to biatch.

The common sense thing would be to have the kid standing out of the picture on the side waiting to go back to class. Of course had anyone done that, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson would be at the school the next day biatching how a white school excluded a black kid.

*rolls eyes*

TFA says the that was the solution arrived at by the PTA. That's... bizarre if true.

What would not have been degrading? A star, as the photographer suggested? A blank circle? Pixelization like the news did?

A white smiley face?

dahmers love zombie: Well, I fiddled with it and managed to get the other kids' faces unobscured:

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I wonder how the gang's doing. Helga and One Eye'd Jim, Confused Pete...man, I love 'em all.

/I never get tired of that one

accelerus: doesn't matter what it is, or how it's handled, black people will find a reason to biatch.

The common sense thing would be to have the kid standing out of the picture on the side waiting to go back to class. Of course had anyone done that, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson would be at the school the next day biatching how a white school excluded a black kid.

*rolls eyes*

This isn't a race thing and the article didn't suggest it was. Your persecution complex is pathetic. Just laugh at the funny picture, asshole.

PirateKing: What would not have been degrading? A star, as the photographer suggested? A blank circle? Pixelization like the news did?

A white smiley face?

I think the best solution would be slightly blurring his face. You wouldn't notice until you tried to focus on him.

/I almost passed out laughing so hard at the contributions here.

My kids don't need permission slips for school pictures, what the fark is that nonsense about?

b3x: My kids don't need permission slips for school pictures, what the fark is that nonsense about?

I thought that signing the form allowing the school to educate the kids encompassed the school picture. At least, that's how it worked in my school. I'm a little lost seeing any pragmatism is asking parental permission on school photos.

LoneWolf343: Can someone tell me why this photo is "offensive?"

Someone hasn't been reading the news, everything involving...ahem "a person of color" is racist and offensive now. Now go feel your guilt if you are white...or Hispanic now.

/you don't really have to, I don't.

Heh that photo is begging for the ye olde tyme FARK photoshop cliche babyhead. (of which all traces seem to have been scoured from the internets)

LivefromGA: Someone hasn't been reading the news, everything involving...ahem "a person of color" is racist and offensive now. Now go feel your guilt if you are white...or Hispanic now.

Gee I am shocked hearing that resentful thin-skinned complaining attitude coming from the South.

/ No I'm not

Those are some huge second graders.

In my HS Year book, the underclasspeople (is that a word now?) that couldn't be identified, would be captioned with bogus names. Like "Ben Dover, Frank N. Beans, Frank N. Stein," or "Harry Palmer," depending upon your last name.
It's hilarious showing this gem of a tome off to coworkers now, in 2012, and being straight faced about who I went to school with back in the 1970's.

Permission slips.
Sris biddness!

/Actually graduated with a Howard Johnson and and Ivy Castle.
//slashies for the ones who got renamed as "T. Bone."
//Or "T. Rex."

Which one of the kids is the teacher farking?

LoneWolf343: Can someone tell me why this photo is "offensive?"

Because the kid is black and they made the face brown. Not giving him a white face is clearly racist.

accelerus: doesn't matter what it is, or how it's handled, black people will find a reason to biatch.

The common sense thing would be to have the kid standing out of the picture on the side waiting to go back to class. Of course had anyone done that, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson would be at the school the next day biatching how a white school excluded a black kid.

*rolls eyes*

Nope, they're a little too busy right now for this nonsense. Six months ago...

CokeBear: We never needed permission slips when I was a kid. They took everyone's picture. The school had to keep them on file in case a kid went missing. Selling them to parents at 400% markup only came later

Now they take the kid's pictures four or five times a year, I'm not shiatting you. Because how else can they sell people pictures unless they harangue the kids until every one of them has their picture taken?

katerbug72: Those are some huge second graders.

They are, aren't they? Maybe it's just the angle of the photo or something.

thurstonxhowell: accelerus: doesn't matter what it is, or how it's handled, black people will find a reason to biatch.

The common sense thing would be to have the kid standing out of the picture on the side waiting to go back to class. Of course had anyone done that, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson would be at the school the next day biatching how a white school excluded a black kid.

*rolls eyes*

This isn't a race thing and the article didn't suggest it was. Your persecution complex is pathetic. Just laugh at the funny picture, asshole.

Wrong, it's "offensive", I wish everyone had your sense of humor though. I LOL'd and thought it was hilarious. The article says otherwise.

jaytkay: LivefromGA: Someone hasn't been reading the news, everything involving...ahem "a person of color" is racist and offensive now. Now go feel your guilt if you are white...or Hispanic now.

Gee I am shocked hearing that resentful thin-skinned complaining attitude coming from the South.

/ No I'm not

Resentful is the wrong word. TIRED/FED UP/MAD would be better choices. It's ALL WE HEAR ABOUT IN THE NEWS.

Just what Fark needed a new meme.

"This isn't a race thing"


Give it time.

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You've really lost a lot of hair.

Oooska: ... you need a permission slip to be in the class photo these days? What the fark for?

THIS.

Wait, you didn't know how class photo accidents have become very common in the 21st century? It's a pretty dangerous event. Definitely need parental permission for it.

Alien Robot: AbbeySomeone: Hey, at least they cared enough to color match him.
If the fees weren't prepaid permission wasn't given, why was he in the photo to begin with?

I don't understand a lot of this. If he didn't pay I thought the standard procedure was for everyone but him to get a copy of the photo but for him to be photographed since he was part of the group. Why are 'permission slips' needed for a group photo anyway? It's a frickin photo. And why are the other students faces blurred in the news photo reproduction of the original? What purpose does that serve?

Because someone somewhere will get the bright idea that they might be able to sue the school for distributing photos of their child without permission, and MIGHT just be able to find a lawyer slimy enough to pursue it.

LivefromGA: Resentful is the wrong word. TIRED/FED UP/MAD would be better choices. It's ALL WE HEAR ABOUT IN THE NEWS.

Stormfront is "the news"?

LivefromGA: jaytkay: LivefromGA: Someone hasn't been reading the news, everything involving...ahem "a person of color" is racist and offensive now. Now go feel your guilt if you are white...or Hispanic now.

Gee I am shocked hearing that resentful thin-skinned complaining attitude coming from the South.

/ No I'm not

Resentful is the wrong word. TIRED/FED UP/MAD would be better choices. It's ALL WE HEAR ABOUT IN THE NEWS.

Well if you people had never freed your slaves they wouldn't be able to b*tch to the media now, right?

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oh ho ho I do wonder if this stays here :P

Um, don't they have the original digital photo without teh brown smiley face? What good photographer adjusts a photo without an original back up?

I am confused immensely by the idiotic photographer...