California high school yearbook refers to minority students as 'trash collators'
theGRIO REPORT - Berkeley High School were upset when they got their yearbooks only to find that someone had changed the text to leave what they believe is a racist remark. The text description of the school's Academy of Medicine and Public Service, or AMPS program, changed the word "innovators" to "trash collators."...
Berkeley High School were upset when they got their yearbooks only to find that someone had changed the text to leave what they believe is a racist remark.
The text description of the school’s Academy of Medicine and Public Service, or AMPS program, changed the word “innovators” to “trash collators.”
Senior student Robael Gizachew said of the change, “I believe it’s racist because they don’t expect highly of us.”
He also noted that remarks like this and other forms of racism were common in his high school.
Watch a full report on the yearbook incident below:
When students alerted the school of the problem on Tuesday, the yearbooks were recalled so that the school could update each yearbook with a sticker on the page in question so that the sticker-ed text had the right words.
“We’ve collected most of them back,” said Mark Coplan of the Berkeley Unified School District. “We’re putting a sticker over with the correct text.”
There is still no word on who made the change or why it was changed after the yearbook was approved for print. But school officials did say that the person responsible for the change would be punished if caught.
In the meantime, the students are expected to get their yearbooks back next week, this time with the correct text.
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