Probably the cover was misaligned on her copy. She flips through it in case there are any surprises. Whimsically scribbles ", and commitment to print quality" at the end of OUR VALUES.

A quiet thump to her right signals somebody plunking their bag on their desk as they scoot their seat in. 

"Anything interesting in there this year?"

"The hat ban has been clarified to include all non-religious headgear other than small functional accessories including barrettes but not including elastic or fabric-covered headbands. Riveting."

"Ah, the dress code. Maybe this year is the year I get somewhere with the administration on that. Or get expelled for too many dress code violations in protest."

"I think as worded this might technically forbid ponytails held together with anything other than a rubber band but somehow I don't expect it to be enforced on me! I'm not sure you can get all the way to expelled for dress code violations without showing up to school actually naked and that might get you put on a sex offender list too, though."

"I am not planning to show up to school in anything that would be actually unreasonable to wear, that would be entirely contrary to the point. Unless I can find something totally unreasonable to wear that manages to not be a dress code violation, to serve as contrast showing how ridiculous the whole system is, but probably not even then, I don't trust them not to take it the wrong way and just add more rules and call it good. I'm definitely not going to get myself arrested over the school dress code. If I get myself arrested as part of a peaceful protest it'll be protesting something way more important."

"I think it would technically not be a dress code violation to show up in..." Bella peers at the dress code. "Okay, 'distracting' covers a lot, that's unfortunate, they could say anything was distracting."

She makes a face. "Guess it's back to Plan A: Short Shorts until they get tired of sending me home. Good thing we live in Arizona, I don't think that tactic would work somewhere they have more in the way of seasons."

"It really wouldn't. I've seen a couple people wear short shorts over leggings and not get coded, though, it's not really consistent."

"I wore bandanas for weeks before somebody called me on it last year..."

"It's almost like they can tell you're not in a gang!"

"Gee! Almost like!"

She glances at the cover of Bella's handbook and makes a face. "Yikes."

"Yeah, mine got kinda -" She flips back to the cover to run her nails over it illustratively.

"Jeeze, don't they have rules against that or something? I wonder how it didn't get caught."

"It's not illegible and it's just the cover anyway. It's not a big deal."

"Yeah, but you know how big of a stickler the school is about these things. Remember last year when they insisted on reprinting all the yearbooks because there was a typo in one of the club names?"

"- I do not."

"People were bitching because they had already started passing around the misprinted ones to sign and everything."

Bella flips back to OUR VALUES.

The values statement printed in the book now ends with "and commitment to print quality." Printed in the same typeface as the rest of the statement. 

"Whatthefuckingfuck," breathes Bella.

"Huh?" 

Edie flips to the same page, not seeing anything weird. "Is yours as badly done inside as out?"

"No, it - I -"

She fumbles her pencil, catches it, strikes through the remark about print quality, looks back over at Edie.

Edie is frowning at the dress code page. "This is ridiculous, people dress like this outside of school all the time and it doesn't impair anyone's function," she bitches. 

"Hey Edie can you summarize our conversation so far for me real quick."