LOL!
In photography, lighting is king!
The school must have been paying the photographer by the hour.
(It takes time to set up lights and umbrellas and adjust them for group shots of people with widely varied skin tones)
If you get it right, its a beautiful “natural looking” photo.
If you get it wrong....
In schools, hysterical, nonsensical racial politics are king.
Sometimes it can be delightful to see the Left trip over the landmines that they have painstakingly installed in the avenues of society.