‘Egregious oversight.’ Quote from hate group spurs yearbook recall, Nevada school says
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A quote from a notorious hate-group leader has a Las Vegas private school asking students to return their yearbooks, Nevada news outlets report.
The quote, by American Nazi Party founder George Lincoln Rockwell, was slipped into The Meadows School yearbook by a senior at the school who falsely attributed it to “anonymous,” the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.
The quote read, “being prepared to die is one of the great secrets of living,” according to the publication.
Rockwell, who coined the phrase “white power,” was assassinated by a neo-Nazi protégé in 1967, The Washington Post reported.
Calling the quote’s inclusion an “egregious oversight,” the school has asked students to return all yearbooks for further review and removal of the quote, KLAS reported.
“We will not allow this quote to remain in a publication that celebrates our students and represents our school,” school leaders said in a letter provided to McClatchy News.
“It is our job to help our students navigate what is morally right and wrong, and we have let not only our student-led yearbook staff down but our community as a whole,” the letter read.
The letter said inclusion of the quote “did not support our values of character and inclusion.” The school also consulted with the Anti-Defamation League.
The student who submitted the quote has been “removed” from the school, KVVU reported.
“Recalling the yearbook was probably a good call,” Lisa Cannito, whose daughter attends the school, told the station. “I would be shocked if it was purposefully put in there. It is possible they had no clue. Kids just repeat what they hear off the internet a lot of times.”
The Meadows School, founded in 1984 by former Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn G. Goodman, has an enrollment of 930 pre-K through high school students, the school said.
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