A high school in Barrie finds itself in the midst of controversy over this year's yearbook.
Nestled between nicknames and beloved memories are quotes students can print as their favorites.
One, in particular, caused complaints to come flooding in to Bear Creek Secondary School.
Automated calls have gone out to parents and students asking for the yearbooks to be returned, new ones will be printed.
The quote that sparked the outrage was posted by a young man and reads "There are only two genders."
"It goes against what we believe as a school board. Our values and so on around equity, inclusion, all of those kinds of things. That does kind of contravene that," says principal Mike Abram. "It's created enough of an issue here at the school and a ripple through the board that, as a school, we have to do something about it."
After receiving the initial complaints it caused faculty to take a closer look at what was inside the yearbook. "If I count them up, I have a total of about eight different quotes that are now going to be eliminated from the yearbook," he adds.
Two of those quotes include "Hickory hickory dock ladies say goodbye to my..." and "Waking up is the second hardest thing in the morning."
A class runs both semesters and a group of students put the yearbook together. "There's a teacher who runs the program and there are student editors, students involved with certain portions of the yearbook. Have we learned a lesson? Yes. There obviously needs to be a better review, better proofing of the book before it goes out. I get that we're walking a very fine line between opinion and so on and so forth, freedom of speech and all of those things. I get that," Abram concedes.
The cost of reprinting the yearbook will come out of the school's budget.