Excluded and Included: The School Yearbook
June 19, 2008 by Kristina Chew, PhD
Filed under Health
On reading about how photos of a class of special ed students was left out of the yearbook of a school in Placer County, California, I felt that pang of exclusion. From KCRA.com:
“It was not intentional,” said Mark Geyer, the superintendent of the Dry Creek Joint Elementary School District.
Darla Granger said her sons Holden and Hunter, who are autistic, were left out of the Quail Glen Elementary yearbook along with the rest of the school’s special needs children on purpose.
“It is my understanding that a school parent volunteer coordinated the yearbook, and omitted the class photo page,” Placer County Superintendent …read more




