Racy photo banned from yearbook

[Kheldarson]

^ Because as her mother so lovingly put in the article, her daughter's 18 and she can't do anything to stop her!

Which we all know means "I never parented my child and so am now hiding behind her legal status to pretend it's not my fault".

[blas87]

I'd love to take this picture to my ex-assistant principal (bitch!!!), shove it in her face, and ask if she'd ever send a girl dressed like that home, the way she had me sent home multiple times due to "teacher complaints" over me wearing low cut shirts with camis underneath for cleavage control that apparently wasn't good enough. This was even before it was fashionable to wear camis under shirts.

[Evandril]

As a general rule, yearbook photos have certain guidelines...and I can't see even the pose, much less the outfit, being allowed within them. She's got her freedom of expression...but the school has the freedom of what they will or will not publish, as well.

The photograph, as a photograph, is fairly well done, IMO...but not appropriate for a yearbook.

[Eisa]

Yeah, I'm not gonna say she looks like a whore or whatever, but it's not really appropriate for school. And the pose isn't really appropriate for the yearbook either. Maybe if it was a different pose, they might feel a little different, but the top combined with the sexy post just...doesn't work.

[Greenday]

Illegal? No.

Belongs in a high school yearbook? LOL Hell no. As AdminAssistant said, it looks like a picture that belongs in Maxim, and as an avid Maxim reader, I definitely agree it'd fit in well. In fact, since she's 18, she'd probably enter the Hometown Hotties competition. If you aren't going to dress like that for everyone in person, it doesn't belong in a yearbook like that.

The mother is absolutely spineless. 18 or not, she's a still a kid and she's still her kid. I'm nearly 24 years old and you bet your ass that if I'm having a friend over, I'm asking my mom first. She'll say yes, but I'm still asking. As long as I'm living in my mom's place, my mom's rules for just about everything goes. This woman needs to learn that and teach her daughter how to deal with authority.

[Boozy]

Both the girl and her mother know that the photo is inappropriate for the yearbook. They were clearly the ones who contacted the press. Now the girl's photo is in syndicated papers around the continent. Free publicity for the budding porn star.

It doesn't qualify as news - everyone knows that seductive photographs do not belong in high-school yearbooks. But they're getting some mileage out of the "controversy" anyway.

I guess they didn't have the stomach to marry her off to a 50 year-old B-list actor. Too bad. Go big or go home! If you want fame, you need to commit!

[Gravekeeper]

Both the girl and her mother know that the photo is inappropriate for the yearbook. They were clearly the ones who contacted the press. Now the girl's photo is in syndicated papers around the continent. Free publicity for the budding porn star.

I was going to say, she's already turned herself into "That Girl" by taking this silly little crusade to the media.

[AdminAssistant]

I guess they didn't have the stomach to marry her off to a 50 year-old B-list actor.

LOL, Boozy, my first thought was, "Wow, she's trying so hard to be Courtney Stodden." And her mother's probably just as much of an attention whore as the daughter. This is what happens when those Toddlers & Tiaras kids grow up.

[Mytical]

The girl is 18 so the mother 'can't control what she does'? That doesn't stop my mother from trying. I'm 38. Now she doesn't do it in the controlling way, but if she has opinions on things I do..by god I know it. Very loudly and vocally.

Again, I guess I am jaded though, the picture I am seeing really does not show that much skin. *shrugs*. I agree it is not appropriate for a yearbook or such, but its not exactly something you hide from children worthy either.

[SkullKing]

Was a dress code for the pictures issued?

because if they didn´t saya nything, I can see the girl taking the time to take a picture she was happy with and them being miffed that it wouldn´t be allowed

[JuniorMintz]

But if the school has a dress code in place (which come on, almost *every* school does), wouldn't it be common sense to assume the dress code would also apply to yearbook photos?

Then again, as I've heard on more than one occasion, "Common sense is so uncommon, it's almost a goddamn superpower".

[ParkingWitch]

Maybe it's just my area, but the posters for/on the strip clubs around here show less skin.

And the rules for all the yearbook photos I've had were for head shots only.

[SkullKing]

I thought the school allowed the students to take their own picture precisely so that they could have pictures different than those that would be taken in the school. Give than a little more freedom to take individualized photos.

Than they taught the girl went too far with her freedom, but since the picture isn´t infringing any restrictions they had made. They had to use the "it is unprofessional".

Personally I think that if she believes the picture represents herself and how she would want to be remembered well, she should be allowed to have it.

But then again I don´t even consider the photo "racy", and we don´t have yearbooks here. So maybe I am just not getting how problematic this photo could be to the school.

Both the girl and her mother know that the photo is inappropriate for the yearbook. They were clearly the ones who contacted the press. Now the girl's photo is in syndicated papers around the continent. Free publicity for the budding porn star.

I think this is a little mean-spirited. I don´t doubt she wanted the photo to call attention. But I can see how she could get exited when told she could take her own photo, liking the idea of doing something special, and then angry that it was taken away.

How important is a year book? are the pictures normally formal?

If it is something important, the kind of thing you keep for a long time as a memento, than I can understand fighting to be remembered the way you want to be remembered.

Ihad a search for "senior ad". She would have to pay extra to have it, or is it something all seniors have?

why are they allowing to print it on the senior ad, and not the book? won´t they both be public and connected to the school?

When I made a search for "yearbook photos" on the web I saw that most of them were focused on the person´s face instead of fullbody, so I would have nothing against them cropping the photo to show just the face and saying that that´s the purpose of the photo(to have the photos of a person´s face)

[AdminAssistant]

At my high school, the 'senior ads' were in the back with the other advertisements and were paid for by the students. Seniors also had a special section towards the front of the book, with pictures in color. We could choose the picture we wanted, but it had to be approved by the yearbook editor. (For example, they frowned on the guys submitting the senior picture where they posed with their collection of hunting rifles.) There were another separate set of pictures that all had to be taken by the same photographer for the thing they put on the wall of the high school.

I worked on the yearbook staff and the student editor, faculty adviser, principal, and superintendent all had veto power. And all of us knew that. The yearbook is designed to not only commemorate the students who come through, but to make the school look good. A lot of schools submit their yearbooks in for yearly contests. They certainly wouldn't want their school represented with a picture of a topless girl who is covering up her hooters with a scarf. (Look closely, that is not a weird shirt. That. is. a. scarf.)

I just took a second glance at my yearbook. Most of us are either in our Sunday best or in jeans with a nice button-up shirt. It's a shame to know I could have gotten a head start on a portfolio for Playboy.

[anakhouri]

It's a great picture of a pretty girl, but not appropriate for a yearbook. And since the yearbook is a privately-published book, the staff gets the final say on what goes in (much like Facebook can tell you what is appropriate to put on your page, because they own the joint). So the young woman doesn't really have a leg to stand on.

Usually when people do senior pictures they have several taken in different poses and outfits (I did not but most people I knew did). Surely she could have used this picture to send to modeling agents or whatever, while having another for the yearbook.