06/12/2017

By: Allison Freeman

A New Jersey high school has come under fire for Photoshopping pro-President Trump slogans off students’ clothes in their yearbook photos.

One kid at Wall High School in New Jersey had ‘TRUMP Make America Great Again’ on his shirt, but it was deleted in post-production.

Another junior classmate of his had his ‘Trump’ fleece blurred and edited.

And a third student, the freshman class president who had chosen a Trump saying for her yearbook quote, said she was shocked to find that it never got printed.

‘I want the yearbooks reissued,’ Joseph Berardo, whose 17-year-old son Grant wore a Trump t-shirt on picture day, told the New York Post.

‘Everybody gets a brand-new yearbook. And I want a letter from the administration explaining why the yearbooks are being reissued, and it should be used as a teaching moment related to the First Amendment in civil discourse.’

Berardo said he had bought $110 worth of photos of Grant wearing what he called his ‘historic’ shirt, but the Trump slogan had been erased from the final edition of the yearbook.

The dad claimed there were no dress code restrictions in place when his son chose to wear the shirt.

He added that a teenager’s New Jersey Devils sports jersey and another’s Led Zeppelin shirt weren’t censored. Neither was another kid, who was wearing a Reagan-Bush shirt in a candid group photo.

‘The fact that the [yearbook] committee found it OK to censor the president’s name or anything that wasn’t offensive is just wrong,’ he said.

Yearbook advisor Susan Parsons told the Post: ‘We have never made any action against any political party.’

When asked if she knew who had edited the Trump pictures, she hung up the phone.