Do kids not sign each other's yearbooks anymore?

[Anonymous]

My middle schooler said hardly any kids got a yearbook and no one is signing them. He has a ton of friends. Is this just not cool anymore?!?!

[Anonymous]

Now they're more likely to sign t-shirts

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Now they're more likely to sign t-shirts

Who has t-shirts? Our school doesn't

[Anonymous]

My kid is just in elementary, but I was shocked no one signed hers. They handed them out at the very end of the day and they said they were to take home. My kid didn't really remember signing them before because they missed the last two times because of covid.

[Anonymous]

My senior’s class distributed the yearbooks only a day before graduation so there was hardly any time to get signatures.

[Anonymous]

Kids don't care about anything but the phone they stare into all day. Mine hasn't even looked thru her yearbook. I paid $35 for a thin piece of crap. Lesson learned.

[Anonymous]

My kid mumbled a halfhearted yes when I asked if he wanted a middle school yearbook a few years ago. After not opening it for the first month he ended up looking at it quite a bit for the rest of middle school. So in the end it was a worthwhile purchase.

But nobody signed it. I don't think he knew that was a thing.

[Anonymous]

My HS kid’s won’t arrive until the summer.

[Anonymous]

My MS had exactly one signature in hers.

[Anonymous]

I was just talking to DH about this as a sign of how behind these kids are. When we were in middle school, everyone wrote corny but heartfelt/funny messages to each other. Or even "have a great summer, it was nice knowing you" messages. At our kid's school, the 8th graders did sign each other's yearbooks...but they literally just scrawled their first names, and a ton of them are barely legible -- like BEN or LIAM written in kindergarten handwriting. Almost to a kid, the handwriting is that of a little kid, huge and shaky. You wonder when these kids last held a pen.

A few of the teachers signed and wrote normal yearbook type messages.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was just talking to DH about this as a sign of how behind these kids are. When we were in middle school, everyone wrote corny but heartfelt/funny messages to each other. Or even "have a great summer, it was nice knowing you" messages. At our kid's school, the 8th graders did sign each other's yearbooks...but they literally just scrawled their first names, and a ton of them are barely legible -- like BEN or LIAM written in kindergarten handwriting. Almost to a kid, the handwriting is that of a little kid, huge and shaky. You wonder when these kids last held a pen.

A few of the teachers signed and wrote normal yearbook type messages.

I just posted this and it's not even just the handwriting, I just have doubts about whether any of them *could* compose a simple message.

[Anonymous]

Both my kids hardly have any signatures in their yearbooks. Not even one

2 Good
+2 Be
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4 gotten

[Anonymous]

Yes, but mine is a senior.

We bought all the ES and MS yearbooks, but they are so expensive in HS, so we are only buying the Jr ans Sr ones (though my Sr forwent last year's b/c there wasn't much in it due to COVID). Thought about getting one for my Soph b/c she popped up in a few places, but even if they printed more, she wouldn't have the opportunity to get it signed, and that's most of the fun.

Pretty sure mine had friends sign in ES and MS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Both my kids hardly have any signatures in their yearbooks. Not even one

2 Good
+2 Be
_______
4 gotten

Hahaha. What about HAGS and LYLAS

[Anonymous]

It’s sad how little it means to them. But then again, I made my mom get a ton of wallet photos of my school pic so I would write nice messages and hand them out. That was always a fun week at school. Still have every photo given to me.