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Yearbook Contains Anti-Semitic Message

POSTED: Friday, June 4, 2004
UPDATED: 1:11 pm EDT June 4, 2004

Students at Key Biscayne Elementary will have to hand over their yearbooks today to have a message of hate removed.

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An eighth-grader wrote an anti-Semitic remark in German in the comments section. Though misspelled, translated, it means, "Death to the Jews." About 450 copies of the yearbook had already been distributed by the time a parent noticed the phrase and contacted the school.

"It's surprising that it would slip by, but in this case it did," said John Schuster of Miami-Dade County schools.

Students who already had their yearbooks were told to rip out page 66, which is where the words appear. School principal Dr. Ana M. Rasco also sent a letter home to parents. In part, it reads, "In spite of careful editing to ensure that everything printed in the memory (book) is proper and in good taste, some inappropriate material slipped by us."

The eighth grader thought to be responsible has been suspended for the rest of the school year, which ends next week.

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