Are Memories Still Valuable?
By Lindsey Piel
Technology has advanced significantly throughout the years. Memories on applications like Snapchat or Facebook serve as a way for people to record and save photos and videos for free. With this development, a question arises: Are yearbooks still in demand?
A poll was conducted among a majority of the Hackett students. It consisted of four questions and four numbered responses. The responses ranged from levels one to four on a positivity scale with levels one and two suggesting a negative response while three and four were positive. 75% of students' responses to all questions were positive.
Of 123 students, 91 are highly likely to buy a yearbook. This shows that there is still a demand for them. However, of the entire student body, only 40% said it was a guarantee. To Hackett’s yearbook, that is a dangerously risky statistic. Perhaps the reason less than half of the students plan on definitely buying one is due to the price. Yet the lower the number of yearbooks sold is, the higher the price becomes.
As for the parents, 70% believe their parents like or love the yearbooks. Meanwhile 26% believe that their parents simply do not care.

Very few students selected the most negative response. Of the entire student body, two students reported that they dislike the yearbook, while over one hundred either like it or love it–including the entire senior class.
Overall, the yearbook is valuable to students–especially to the 91% of seniors who are guaranteed to buy one. One freshman added a comment to their poll after selecting the response indicating that they don’t plan to buy a yearbook. They said, “If I were a senior, I would buy one.” They seem to be an important keepsake, as 74% of the students believe yearbooks are useful. With that, hopefully the number of yearbook sales will increase.
If interested, this is the link to review the data: click here