High school yearbooks focus on the fun students had, obscuring the pain people also experienced

High school yearbooks focus on the fun students had, obscuring the pain people also experienced

The Salinas High School (Calif.) girls volleyball team from 1924, as seen in the school's yearbook, 'El Gabilan.' Michael A. Messner, CC BYHigh school students will soon take part in a more than 160-year-old tradition in American education: receiving yearbooks at the end of the school year. In an era of high-speed ephemeral images and social media, some may see high school yearbooks as outdated. But high school and college students have told me …