This week at East Brunswick High School, roughly 700 seniors received their yearbooks. In the section reserved for student groups, notably missing were the names of the Jewish Student Union members, and instead of a picture of the Jewish student group, the yearbook ran a picture of a group of Muslim students.
East Brunswick School Superintendent Victor Valeski says an investigation is already underway to find out what happened. He confirmed the issue did occur on the school’s end and was not the fault of the publisher.
“But right now, I don’t see anything that points us to an intentional act. But I’m not ruling that out until we complete the investigation,” he said.
What was done to the high school yearbook – which, I hope, will be re-issued with the Jewish Student Union section corrected – is an outrage.
What was said by the the East Brunswick School superintendent, victor valeski – is idiotic.
What does valeski think? That removing the Jewish presence in the yearbook and substituting Muslims instead was some kind of inadvertent accident????
Further on in the article, we have this:
Abigail Aronovich, a member of the Jewish Student Union, says antisemitism is blatant in the school.
“I find it hard to see it as an error … We’ve been having an issue with antisemitism at the school. That’s why we’re here today. It’s a build-up. It’s a cause and effect”
But valeski doesn’t see anything that points to an intentional act? Is this man brain dead? Or, worse, ok with overlooking it?
According to the CBS article, the one-page correction can be accomplished within the existing yearbook, and if all 700 are brought back the cost will only be $1,000. Personally, I find this hard to believe.
But whatever the cost, if they can find whoever did this to the yearbook I hope he/she/they are made to pay for the yearbook’s re-issue. And prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
As far a Valeski? At the very least I hope there is some serious checking to find out whether other such instances have occurred at East Brunswick High School…and, if so, what he has (maybe hasn’t is the more appropriate word) done about it.
If the answer is that there have been and he’s buried those instances? The day this is determined should be the last day of his employment as superintendent of schools.
