COST:

Why does the yearbook cost so much money?

The yearbook costs a lot of money to print. We keep yearbook costs as low as possible to allow for the most number of students to obtain one.

I can’t afford a photographer for my senior portrait.

Every school year notifications go out through email, counselors, and admin about events where your child may be eligible for a free senior photo. The photographers that take student ID photos offer to share their photos with us, our staff can take a quick photo at the school, or you can contact a counselor for photographers who sometimes donate their time to help those who cannot afford a senior portrait. You can also submit a photo you take yourself.

Senior Portraits: If you have a professional photographer take your senior's portrait, you can have them submit the photo (or you can) along with a photo release that gives us permission to print the image. Senior portraits are in a different section from the senior tributes, and are free to publish.

DELIVERY TIME AND LOCATION:

When will the yearbook be published?

Yearbooks are delivered to us in late May, and then sorted by our Yearbook volunteers.

MISTAKES

Why is my name misspelled or missing?

With almost 1000 students at WTMS, we work hard to get everyone’s name where it should be in the yearbook. Some appear multiple times, throughout the book. With our small team of volunteers we would love to be able to say we know each student personally, but we simply do not.

We work to avoid spelling errors and missing students on teams and groups by asking for names to come directly from the coaches, teachers, and staff. We copy and paste what they send us, directly into the yearbook. We do not type out or change name spellings that come to us from these sources. If you have further concerns on this, please reach out to their coach/team leader.

We send numerous reminders and requests to students, staff, and coaches via email throughout the school year and at staff meetings to try to obtain names to match the group photos. When we do not get a response by a deadline we use the alphabetical list available to us from administration. Again, copied and pasted.

Why is my photo not included in the gradle level/team images?

We do not have control over what photos are sent to us from professional photographers, for photos of students for grade level photos (ID pictures), nor sport and activity group photos. If you were absent the day of the team photo, we do not have the editing ability to add you in. Coaches and Team Leaders are responsible for naming those not present. Please contact your team coach or team leader for more information.

All candid photos are taken by volunteer yearbook students as they are able to work the club and team sports into their busy academic schedule and personal life. Again, they are volunteers and not professionals, so if the photo is a little out of focus, or someone got cut off on the edge it was not on purpose. They are doing their best.

We look carefully through each image to look for signals, signs, or oopsies that we don’t meet our family-friendly requirements. We may have to crop and edit to meet these requirements.

We ask administrators to go through the list of non-photo students and ask permission or clarify whether or not they can be in the yearbook. Many parents don't realize if they sign the non-release policy that their child cannot be individually or team photographed for the yearbook. Please speak to an administrator if you want your child's photo in the yearbook (in the future) and you have signed a non-release privacy form.