Student’s prank leads to ‘molester’ label in yearbook

There’s a lot of buzz about the incident known as the ‘yearbook prank.’ At Mayo High School in Rochester, Minnesota a student takes an end-of-the-year prank too far. His classmates say the school has suspended him and he might not graduate.

“Around Wednesday is when they started going around to classrooms trying to fix everything and that’s when we all heard about it,” Adam Gibson, junior, said.

A senior with access to this year’s yearbook reportedly changed the last name of a younger student, we’ve chosen not to identify to instead read ‘molester’.

“He’s going to be known for the rest of his life as this nickname and that sucks,” Gibson said.

According to the yearbook staff, they are ”…disgusted that their trust was violated, takes the incident very seriously and has taken steps to correct the error.”

Students say teachers asked them to return the yearbooks or fear failing their final exams.

“They were trying to collect them all to black out the name and put a tag over it,” Briana Clement, senior, said”

The yearbooks have since been returned. A sticker with the student’s correct name now covers the derogatory term. That no doubt will leave a more permanent mark on everyone involved.

A school system spokesperson confirms that the senior prankster has been disciplined but wouldn’t elaborate because of student data privacy acts. The spokesperson added that although students say they were threatened with failure if they didn’t return the yearbooks, no repercussions were given.