<p>My D’s h.s. doesn’t distribute yearbooks until fall of the following year, which always seemed a bit odd to me (other three kids all got them in May or June). But now that she’s a senior, it’s really annoying. She’ll be in college so I’ll have to go to the high school to pick it up and she misses that whole “sign the yearbook” memory.</p>
<p>Do other high schools wait until the fall for year book distribution? Does anyone know why it would be? We haven’t been given any legitimate reasons for it by her school and no other county schools do it this way. Just curious…</p>
<p>My kids HS did this, it enabled them to include the entire year’s activities. It seemed odd to me, but they were not upset, they did not know any better</p>
<p>My kids’ HS did this also. They included photos from graduation. My kids didn’t care & probably didn’t realize other schools distributed them out earlier.</p>
<p>This happens at DS current school and it happened at my school. In my year, we received “Senior Memory Books” where it had pages for $ for gas prices and movies that were popular, like a scrapbook. We all signed these books throughout the year.</p>
<p>The reason to wait is to include events from the second half of the year. Our kids get the hard cover yearbook at the end of the school year, then the following fall they get the yearbook supplement which is a soft cover “addition to the yearbook” with all of the spring sports, proms, events from the end of the year covered. Best of both worlds.</p>
<p>To me half the fun of a yearbook is spending the last week of school writing notes to your friends in them. What my high school did was publish a little supplement that they mailed to us that included highlights of the end of the year. I thought that was a great solution. I see post #6’s school as the same arrangement.</p>
<p>My high school did them the following fall too. They did it that way they could get the prom photos, graduation photos and whatnot in them. What my school did though was give you the signature/note writing pages at the end of each year that way everyone could write on them. They had a sticky thing on the edge and then once you got your yearbook you just added it in. Seemed to work well.</p>
<p>When I was in high school, we got our yearbooks in the spring, and they didn’t include the last couple of months of activities. However, the yearbook staff kept collecting photos, etc. and we received a “spring supplement” sometime in the summer. As I recall, they had a gummed strip along the spine so that they could be pasted inside the cover of the hard-bound yearbook. For some reason, they were printed on colored paper which made them a bit hard to read. Maybe it was a '70s thing?</p>
<p>Mine and my kids’ schools did what Happymom’s did - we got a supplement in the summer with prom, graduation, spring sports and plays, etc. Worked out well.</p>
<p>The HS here distributes the yearbooks in early June, so activities like spring sports, spring musical, etc. get shorted. The prom and graduation actually appear in the next year’s edition which seems odd to me.</p>
<p>In my own HS days (1970’s) my HS did the hard copy/supplement thing which has been described above. I think it is ideal, but when I mention it to people here they act as if I am nuts.</p>
<p>I have always hated that the yearbooks come after school is out…but d doesn’t seem to care. I found my old Senior yearbook and (after she had a good time admiring my early 80’s style!) she thought the signatures, heartfelt letters and piles of 2 good 2 B 4gotten notations to be delightful…but she didn’t feel sad that they don’t have that opportunity. There will be pictures from prom and her graduation and such, but I know we LIVED for when the yearbooks came in so we could sign each other’s volume.</p>
<p>At the high school I attended, each year the yearbook staff had to decide whether to distribute the books in June – allowing for yearbook signing but omitting coverage of prom, graduation, spring sports, etc. – or in August, which allowed for coverage of the whole year but made signing difficult. My class chose August distribution and arranged for a signing party, where everyone who was available picked up their books at the school at the same time and people passed their books around for signing. However, a lot of people couldn’t come to that event, so the collection of signatures in my book is rather sparse.</p>
<p>NJTheatre, you are correct. Two of my daughters were yearbook editors at schools where the yearbooks are distributed in the fall. They each put in approximately 40 hours post-graduation finishing the yearbooks. Each had a co-editor who also worked on the yearbook after graduation.</p>