Posted on 01/05/2012 10:55:35 PM PST by beaversmom
DURANGO, Colo. -- A teenager said Durango High School is refusing to publish one of her senior photos in the yearbook.
Sydney Spies, 18, told the Durango Herald that administrators told her the senior portrait she submitted would not be printed in the yearbook because her attire in the photo violated dress code.
The newspaper said the high school requires that tops "fully cover the chest, back, abdomen and sides of the student."
The photo Spies submitted shows her wearing a yellow skirt with a black shawl that exposes her shoulders and midsection.
"We'll get the ACLU involved if they censor," said Sydney's mother, Miki Spies, on Facebook. "Don't say, 'Can't she just submit a different picture?' Censorship is wrong."
On Thursday evening, Miki Spies posted a longer comment on the controversy on her Facebook page:
"I wanted my daughter to chose a different photo but she is 18 and doesn't always listen! I knew this would be hard and it's proving to be. But when SHE chose this beautiful photo on my profile, I was 100% going to support her. Now that I know about Student Press Laws, I'm appalled that the administration disregarded the original vote by the student editors (4-0 in favor of Sydney Spies being able to use the photo) and got involved to overrule the photo. I guess word is spreading about this case all over the state and some people are talking about what a terrible mother I am. Some are upset at the administration is strong arming the students and some just think the picture is hot..."
Or a pole dancing career.
That's one battle you wouldn't have here in Thailand and most of Asia. All students wear uniforms not only in high school but most technical schools and even many universities. In grade/high school absolutely no makeup and only minimal jewelry like earrings and a thin chain are allowed.
One day her kids will be so proud to see their mom dressed as a hooker in the year book.
Strange, when I dated her she didn’t wear the black top! Eat your hearts out losers!
If she’s wearing panties in that shot I’ll eat my hat!
The young lady needs to find a different advertising venue, other than her HS yearbook.
The HS is perfectly sound in denying entry of this photo. They have a dress code, and that logically covers yearbook photos.
Great shades of Kelly Bundy....
The only thing missing from that photo is a phone number and an hourly rate.
This has been going on for a long time. Saw it when I was in high school. Saw it when my daughters were in high school a decade ago. It's really sad the number of moms who feel compelled to compete with their daughters.
Well it doesn’t show her tramp stamp, so whats the problem.
She is pushing that flat chest as hard as she can , but she hasn’t got much in the breast department.
Is this an 8th grade yearbook??? LOL
“She looks like a ho!”
I think more like a tranney posing for her cause.
Maybe mom is in the same business.
......and the problem is? If they don’t like it, they can Photoshop it.
Seems to me she's destined for Australian Intelligence service.
Media whores, looking for their 15 minutes of fame!
With a mother named Miki, the chile’ has been doomed since birth
Our school did that when I was there (’79-’82). They told the girls to wear a bandeau or strapless top and then put a drape across them that I guess was supposed to look like a strapless formal dress. I think for us guys, they put a thing on us that looked like a suit or tux, we didn’t wear suits ourselves. I don’t have my old yearbook handy and that was 30 years ago so I don’t quite remember.
Also, they only did that for the seniors. Juniors and lower just had their pictures taken in whatever normal clothes they wore that day. But the pictures were all shoulders-up anyway, no posing like this girl’s.
}:-)4
Leni
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