A female student wearing a hijab was misidentified in her yearbook photo as "Isis" at Los Osos High School in Rancho Cucamonga, sparking online anger. (KABC)
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By Melissa MacBride | May 8, 2016
RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. -- Yearbooks are on sale at a California high school, where most students consider it keepsake.
But one Los Osos High School student photographed wearing a hijab, the yearbook is an insult.
She is not 11th grader Isis Phillips. But that's how her picture in the yearbook identified her.
She posted the picture on Facebook with the caption: "I am extremely saddened, disgusted, hurt and embarrassed that the Los Osos High School yearbook was able to get away with this. Apparently I am 'Isis' in the yearbook. The school reached out to me and had the audacity to say that this was a typo. I beg to differ, let's be real."
Eyewitness News is not releasing the teen's real name, because a friend tells us she and her family are not ready to address the media at this time.
The misnamed photo is getting a lot of attention on Facebook and Twitter.
Trevor Santellan, one of the students who worked on the yearbook, said there actually was a student named Isis Phillips at Los Osos who transferred earlier in the year.
The school's yearbook account has tweeted an apology, saying it was an unintentional mistake.
"We are extremely sorry for what occurred in the Yearbook. ... It is our fault and this is absolutely inexcusable on our part," the tweet said.
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— LOHS Yearbook (@LosOsosYearbook) May 7, 2016
The school principal has also apologized and said the mistake is being investigated.
LOHS is taking every step possible to correct & investigate a regrettable misprint discovered in the yearbook. We sincerely apologize.
— Susan Petrocelli (@LosOsosHigh) May 8, 2016
The Chaffey Joint Union High School District released this statement:
"We are investigating to figure how this happened and we are certainly sensitive to the young lady. We have been in contact with the family and will continue to work with them to determine how this could happen and how we can remedy the situation."
The Council on American-Islamic Relations has been in contact with the student and her family and said she will likely not return to school "until the issue is resolved appropriately."
CAIR-LA said in a press release Sunday it is calling for a thorough investigation of the misprint.
"We join with the family in their concern about a possible bias motive for this incident and in the deep concern for their daughter's safety as a result of being falsely labeled as a member of a terrorist group," said CAIR-LA Executive Director Hussam Ayloush. "No student should have to face the humiliation of being associated with a group as reprehensible as ISIS."
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