Shaker Heights Yearbook Cover Has Hidden F-Word (Photos)

Posted on June 17, 2009

Ohio’s Shaker Heights High School yearbook cover has people talking! A high school senior designed a hidden message with the F-word on the yearbook’s cover. Offensive or funny? Read more below.

The cover was designed by an outgoing high school senior and students discovered the hidden f-word message in the design pretty quickly.

“You have to turn it upside down and then it is right there,” said incoming senior Katie Rownd. The hidden message contains the “F” bomb.

After the Shaker Height’s principal learned of the obscenity, he sent home a letter to parents. And attached to that letter was an apology from the student who designed the cover.

The student wrote, ” I cannot begin to explain the miserable feeling I brought upon myself, when I betrayed the trust of all of you. I apologize for offending anyone and everyone. It is unfortunate that I did not recognize the big responsibility and honor given to me when asked to design the cover of the Shaker Heights yearbook. I offer my sincere apologies.”

The school stopped issuing yearbooks when they learned of the hidden message and the school is now distributing “cosmetically altered” versions of the yearbook.

Students can also bring in their original yearbooks and someone will cover the obscenity for them. One senior, though, says she plans on keeping her yearbook just the way it is.

“Thirty years down the road, it’s kinda funny to flip it upside down and be like, oh look what’s hidden!” she said.

So what are your thoughts on the Shaker Height’s High School Yearbook? Do you find it creative and amusing or offensive?

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