Should I buy a yearbook?
By Lynn Greenberg
With social media and cell phones, parents and even students wonder if it’s even worth it to buy the yearbook. We all have access to all kinds of memories and photos in seconds, so why buy a yearbook?
For many of us, buying a yearbook was a “no-brainer” because it was the only way we could see photos of our school experiences, but today’s students have the ability to capture almost any moment themselves, and they are available right in their hands. There are still some places and times they cannot get a photo and that’s during a school day or when they participate in an activity.
Here are some other reasons to buy a yearbook:
A yearbook is a memory book. It captures one year in one book of the life and events of a student body and school community.
A yearbook is like a time capsule capturing trends in fashion, music, hairstyles, events, achievements, clubs, teams and friendships.
A yearbook includes references to friendships through the signatures and notes written by your friends and classmates at that time.
A yearbook can look at the year from a third-person perspective, where students, teachers, staff, and families can look at everything outside of their point of view.
A yearbook can help remember friends and teachers.
A yearbook helps students show their families what life was like when they were in school.
The yearbook offers the ability to see in one book a year in the life of the people who lived it with details like dates, descriptions, and names to look back on in the future long after they have been forgotten.
The ability to look at the events you weren’t a part of, activities you were a participant in, or from a different view. Not to mention being able to see what your friends and classmates were doing when you were busy with other things and your life.
Yearbooks are a reminder of the connections you had with teachers, staff, friends, and classmates you lose touch with when life moves on or connect with long after you are no longer in school together or when you didn’t even know each other until later in life.
Yearbooks are a fun way to connect with family to see the style of clothes and hair or just to connect with your children to show them what life was like when you were their age.
Is a yearbook worth it? The answer is YES, especially when I see my children making new friends each year and then using their yearbooks as a reference to look them up in previous years or my children who have graduated going back to look at friends. I am also one to go back to show my kids something, discover something new about my former classmates, and read all the signatures and notes…There’s nothing like reliving a moment through a K/I/T with a phone number that no longer works.
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