This year at WJPS, students discovered there would be no yearbook class. Although this doesn’t necessarily mean seniors won’t get a yearbook, they’ll still miss out on learning important skills like teamwork and journalism with a more artistic touch than newspaper and broadcast classes.

This is saddening, because if seniors won’t be able to absorb said skills with more freedom and involvement, it’ll be harder for them to do so, as they’ll associate them with boredom and pressure.

Additionally, it leaves the means of yearbook production and the yearbook class’s future uncertain and may reduce room for student input. That would be flawed, since students won’t be able to express themselves in the yearbook beyond photos, events, and senior quotes.

As a solution, a yearbook club has been created. Thus, students contribute directly to the yearbook, and possibly with more genuineness since they willingly joined the club.

WJPS principal Dr. Bacchus said, “We don’t have a yearbook class this year. However, we do have a group of 11th and 12th graders that are working on the yearbook.”

WJPS 12th grader Noah Lim said, “I was looking forward to the class, because my friends that were seniors last year enjoyed it.”