Author Topic: Student's photo banned from yearbook (Read 29339 times)

Monkeyleg · « **Reply #25 on:** January 08, 2012, 01:46:11 PM »

I don't think it's "horrible". I've seen much worse (or better, depending upon your point of view).

I think it's inappropriate for a high school yearbook, I think the editors have every right to say it can't be with the other seniors' graduation photos, and I think her parents are horrible.

MicroBalrog · « **Reply #26 on:** January 08, 2012, 01:49:38 PM »

At my school, legend has it a student in her final grade took her graduating exam in Physics wearing basicallly two narrow strips of cloth as a top and a bottom.

At first the exam overseer protested. Another student quipped:

"This is a physics exam. As she gets hot, it will expand."

The exam concluded in peace.

MicroBalrog · « **Reply #27 on:** January 08, 2012, 01:51:26 PM »

Of course I also have to ask:

This is the age of digital cameras embedded in every single form of electronics.

Couldn't they have just snapped a dozen photos of various degrees of raunchiness ranging from "Nun" to "OH GOD WTF IS THAT A PINEAPPLE" and emailed them to the staff? It would have taken about a minute.

HeroHog · « **Reply #28 on:** January 08, 2012, 02:10:45 PM »

The school has no problem with cheerleaders and dance teams wearing less and dancing VERY provocativly to stripper music but THAT was over the top? PLEASE! If wa are going to throw stones, let's level the field first people.

cassandra and sara's daddy · « **Reply #29 on:** January 08, 2012, 02:24:25 PM »

Quote from: HeroHog on January 08, 2012, 02:10:45 PM

The school has no problem with cheerleaders and dance teams wearing less and dancing VERY provocativly to stripper music but THAT was over the top? PLEASE! If wa are going to throw stones, let's level the field first people.

what school has em wearing less than that? much less putting a pic in the year book?

BlueStarLizzard · « **Reply #30 on:** January 08, 2012, 02:49:45 PM »

Quote from: HeroHog on January 08, 2012, 02:10:45 PM

The school has no problem with cheerleaders and dance teams wearing less and dancing VERY provocativly to stripper music but THAT was over the top? PLEASE! If wa are going to throw stones, let's level the field first people.

I think you are confusing college with high school.

or fictin for reality.

Nobody, at any high school I know of would get away with that.

The cheerleaders are much more conservative then that. Showing belly button is not the same as wearing what amounts to a bikini top.

And micro, consider that most high school seniors are still underage for at least most of the year. Dress codes are not evil and generally don't compare to what you make it out to be in either the public or private sector.
Freedom of expression and showing more skin then you'd find on some beach goers are two diffrent things.

MicroBalrog · « **Reply #31 on:** January 08, 2012, 03:00:56 PM »

Oh well, since they are 17 rather than 18 that makes it all okay then.

Jamie B · « **Reply #32 on:** January 08, 2012, 03:17:37 PM »

This about covers my thoughts on this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RnqTTNO3nI

freakazoid · « **Reply #33 on:** January 08, 2012, 05:45:09 PM »

I remember back in high school the cheerleader uniforms showed more than what was allowed for normal cloths.

Monkeyleg · « **Reply #34 on:** January 08, 2012, 06:10:16 PM »

My wife went to a Catholic junior high. The dress code wouldn't allow mini-skirts, so she'd roll the skirt up at the waist to raise the hemline. That was a big deal, and got her in a a lot of trouble.

It's also a far cry from what the girl in question is wearing.

Zardozimo Oprah Bannedalas · « **Reply #35 on:** January 08, 2012, 06:48:55 PM »

I knew this thread would be about a girl.

Also, I saw less revealing outfits in the Craigslist hooker section.

If she wants to look like the school bicycle, I don't care.

Lee · « **Reply #36 on:** January 08, 2012, 06:54:34 PM »

I wonder if she was voted as most likely to suckseed.

Boomhauer · « **Reply #37 on:** January 08, 2012, 07:26:57 PM »

Jesus Christ, Micro...give it a rest...

Jamie B · « **Reply #38 on:** January 08, 2012, 08:45:57 PM »

Quote from: Monkeyleg on January 08, 2012, 06:10:16 PM

My wife went to a Catholic junior high. The dress code wouldn't allow mini-skirts, so she'd roll the skirt up at the waist to raise the hemline. That was a big deal, and got her in a a lot of trouble.

It's also a far cry from what the girl in question is wearing.

Snort! My daughter in in Catholic school - it ain't changed!

Monkeyleg · « **Reply #39 on:** January 08, 2012, 11:30:44 PM »

Quote

Snort! My daughter in in Catholic school - it ain't changed!

Still have dress codes and brutal nuns?

My girlfriend/wife hated the nuns because of her experience. Once, when we were still teens, we were driving down a main drag in Milwaukee after having just stopped at a drive-in restaurant. Three nuns were walking on the sidewalk. My wife opened the car window and flung her vanilla malt at them.

She still doesn't like the church.

Matthew Carberry · « **Reply #40 on:** January 08, 2012, 11:38:00 PM »

Note that isn't a "top". It's a scarf, just a scarf.

If she moves her arms above the elbow at all it falls off.

I'm no prude but she technically isn't wearing "clothes" as conventionally defined.

230RN · « **Reply #41 on:** January 09, 2012, 07:16:36 AM »

The camera wasn't vertical... or the image was rotated.

I'm appalled.

End of comment.

Azrael256 · « **Reply #42 on:** January 09, 2012, 09:17:28 AM »

She's on the Today show. Her presentation (and her mother's) is exactly what you'd expect.

She won't have to worry about putting an inappropriate photo on a Harvard student ID.

Monkeyleg · « **Reply #43 on:** January 09, 2012, 10:16:38 AM »

Quote from: Azrael256 on January 09, 2012, 09:17:28 AM

She's on the Today show. Her presentation (and her mother's) is exactly what you'd expect.

She won't have to worry about putting an inappropriate photo on a Harvard student ID.

I'm getting a mental image of Kelly and Peg Bundy from "Married With Children". Am I in the ballpark?

Harold Tuttle · « **Reply #44 on:** January 09, 2012, 11:04:49 AM »

successful Troll is on the Today show

15 minutes of fame quota decreased by 5 minutes

Hawkmoon · « **Reply #45 on:** January 09, 2012, 01:12:16 PM »

Quote from: Azrael256 on January 09, 2012, 09:17:28 AM

She's on the Today show. Her presentation (and her mother's) is exactly what you'd expect.

All the elocutionary skills of a, like, valley girl?

makattak · « **Reply #46 on:** January 09, 2012, 01:12:49 PM »

Quote from: Hawkmoon on January 09, 2012, 01:12:16 PM

All the elocutionary skills of a valley girl?

Like, totally.

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #47 on:** January 09, 2012, 01:19:10 PM »

A new take on the whole phenomenon of celebrity-by-sex-tape?

Jamie B · « **Reply #48 on:** January 09, 2012, 02:18:04 PM »

Quote from: Monkeyleg on January 08, 2012, 11:30:44 PM

Still have dress codes and brutal nuns?

My girlfriend/wife hated the nuns because of her experience. Once, when we were still teens, we were driving down a main drag in Milwaukee after having just stopped at a drive-in restaurant. Three nuns were walking on the sidewalk. My wife opened the car window and flung her vanilla malt at them.

She still doesn't like the church.

No nuns these days, and the lay teachers are pretty good.
The principal needs to be on a spine donor list, along with the Pastor.
'Course, my pushy and arrogant approach is easily executed with them!

230RN · « **Reply #49 on:** January 09, 2012, 02:31:02 PM »

So I was "forced" by my curiosity into looking at the Today interview.

http://www.blinkx.com/watch-video/yearbook-photo-too-racy-student-disputes-rejection/I_uA8LKFOAU0uXrhCcflTA

Both she and her mother have rather thin high-pitched feminine voices.

But "Valley Girl" speech?

No, I heard none of that. Not one "like" or "y'know" in there that I recall. Just normal speech, which if it were in text, would be unremarkable. The valley girl comments are just bandwagon-jumping --an interesting pack behavior.

I think the "provocativeness" was minimized somewhere along the line by having the pic rotated clockwise, which tends to minimize the "tush-sticking-out-of" which is typical of a lot of glamour shots. If you will notice, the stairway railing supports are not vertical in the submitted pic.

Dress code? During the Today video I spotted a pic where a boy's shirt was open to the waist which was possibly also against the dress code, but there wasn't a brouhaha about that. In that brief glimpse of the boy's photo, I believe a bellybutton was also shown.

Count me as supportive of Sydney Spies' original pic being included in the yearbook. No big deal.

Terry, 230RN

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