Yearbook listing 'Black Girl' will be corrected
Sources: Associated Press, KHOU.com, Houston Chronicle

WAXAHACHIE – A North Texas school district is having four pages of its high school yearbook reprinted to correct a photo caption that identified a student as “Black Girl.”

All white students are identified by name in the photograph in the Waxahachie High School yearbook, which was distributed on Friday.

Shadoyia Jones, identified as "Black Girl," is the only black student in the photo.

The label apparently was meant to be a placeholder until the yearbook staff could track down the student's name, district spokeswoman Candace Ahlfinger said in Sunday's edition of the Waxahachie Daily Light.

She said using that label was a poor choice, but it was not meant maliciously and was not meant to be printed.

School board president Joe Langley said a student made the mistake. "I'm sure the student is very sorry," he said.

District spokeswoman Candace Ahlfinger said Monday that administrators have asked the publisher to reprint the affected page, its companion page in a two-page layout, and those two pages’ back pages.

“We will never be able to minimize this damage, but this will change it so that it is not a constant reminder, so it won’t be a forever,” Ahlfinger told the Waxahachie Daily Light.

The logistics of replacing the pages in the yearbooks are still being worked out, Ahlfinger said.

The district apologized for the mistake Saturday, a day after the yearbooks were distributed.

Students will be asked to bring in their yearbooks so the old pages can be torn out and the new ones glued in, Ahlfinger said. The district expects to have the reprinted pages by Wednesday. The last day of school is Thursday.