Missed deadline- senior yearbook

If she already says she doesn't care then she will care so much less as the years go on.

I have my yearbooks, was on the yearbook committee, small school of 300 kids grades 7-12, I still live in this small town and I've never looked at my yearbooks.

You could call and speak to the yearbook advisor and see if they have sent the pages in to the publisher yet and if it can still be submitted. This happens frequently so there may be a bit of a give by a few days. It can’t hurt to try.

I would have been devastated. But, neither of my kids would have cared.

Also, if your DD was in charge of it, it's not really on you, is it? Let your mind be at ease.

Is it possible a group of kids have decided it’s uncool to care about the yearbook and have opted out? Something similar happened my older DD’s senior year. They decided that only very odd, abstract photos were “cool” and traditional portraits were too embarrassing. I paid for very well done traditional portraits and DD ended up deciding that one of them looked artsy enough to suit her. But I think I still had to be the one to send it in.

Teenage girls can be very strange.

Eh, I wouldn't stress over this. If she says she doesn't care, she probably doesn't care. If you feel like you need to do something, and have the cash, do the ad. Otherwise, I would just let it go.

At the time I would've been devastated. Not so much now.
If she were my daughter I would do a senior ad - I would want her included.

My son's name was missing out of the graduate list they pass out at graduation.  No fault of our own.  They did print us four sheets for us but the never ending question that day was "isn't Zach graduating?" So it was kinda a big deal then.  Now not even on our radar.  

So yeah, kinda upsetting, but not life altering.  In our case, I was more upset than he was by far. He is a boy and not into that stuff, so there ya go.

Our Senior pictures were due the first week or two after school started.

If you wanted Senior pictures done you had your appointment in the summer.

We did have someone on the Yearbook group who had a nice camera and for those that didn't get professional pictures they would take them outside on the grounds and take a nice picture that way.

Our high school has a picture day for seniors just like the rest of the students so they are included no matter what. I don’t understand why more schools don’t do this.

That’s how it was back in the day when I graduated. We all had the same off the shoulder drape things for the girls and coats/ties for the boys. Not sure when it changed to independent, on location photo shoots with multiple wardrobe changes.

I would have been really pissed to miss mine and would have been really sad to not have my kids' photos in the yearbook. I kind of had to force DS to go get a pic taken on senior portrait day (DD didn't have that, different school and she had a whole portrait session at a studio).

But I would have found a senior ad embarrassing. Only nerds whose parents paid for them had those in my day. 🤣

I'd have been upset for life, but it was more important to people then. We have had regular reunions so I'd have been reminded of my own irresponsibility every 5-10 years. It was important enough to me to get myself to my senior appointment the summer before. I wouldn't have dreamed of asking my mom to sort it out if I screwed it up and she certainly wouldn't have bought an ad just because I was irresponsible.


When professional photographers realized that senior portraits could be an additional revenue stream. About 20 years ago, I worked for another photographer shooting and doing tech stuff. A Minnesota photographer named Fuzzy Dunkel did presentations about his senior portrait business at Professional Photographers of America conventions in a lot of states, including ours. His work was excellent and his business model was sound so on-location senior portraiture took off. You're welcome for the history lesson.

I am not in half of the group photos I should have been in in my Senior yearbook. For some reason picture days were always scheduled when I was on a trip with some other group. Looking back it is actually funny to say, I should have been in that one. My friends insisted I was in the group senior photo. They looked for 15 minutes and could not find me, I said I was gone.