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Sound off - the yearbook senior picture contro in Durango!
I have no sympathy whatsoever for this girl because it's a no-brainer - if you're not allowed to wear it to school, what makes you think you can have it in the school yearbook?
Controversy erupts over rejection of yearbook photo
 Sydney Spies, 18, wanted to use this picture for her senior portrait in the yearbook at Durango High School. Yearbook editors rejected it. Spies claims a violation of her freedom of expression. |
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The picture 18-year-old Sydney Spies wants to use shows her in a short yellow skirt and top that leaves her shoulders and midriff exposed.
The four yearbook staff members say the clothing in the picture violates dress code at the school.
The editors defended their decision Thursday, saying their vote was unanimous. But they say the photo can run in a section reserved for paid senior advertisements where family and friends express messages to the students.
The principal, Diane Lashinsky, says she was aware of the editors? decision and she supports it.
Sydney Spies says she thinks the editors made their decision based on pressure from administrators.
She says the picture is a good representation of her personality because she?s interested in modeling and photography.
Does she think the picture is suggestive? "Not to me personally, I just think it's artistic."
"I don't think it's that bad of a picture. People who know me know I'm fun...I'm a fun person. I'm going through all this effort and all I want is my picture in the yearbook."
She says the decision rejecting the photo violates her freedom of expression.
Miki Spies, Sydney?s mother says on her Facebook page that she urged her daughter to choose a different photo, but she?s 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.?
Miki Spies believes the school administration overruled student editors? original decision to allow the picture, and she thinks the photo should be allowed.
The school administration denies any involvement in the decision regarding the photo.
Sydney Spies planned to meet with the principal about the controversy Friday.
Re: Sound off - the yearbook senior picture contro in Durango!
ITA with ac*m*mg - she wants the attention.
I think she is drooling over the chance to show her "modeling photos" to any news agency that catches wind of this.
When I was in HS, we had some flexibility in photos, but we still had basic requirements to follow anyway.
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I love that so many schools are staying away from the boring drape shots. You get zero personality from those. We could always submit our own and I loved that. Why this school didn't have policies in place as far as what was okay and what wasn't kind of blows my mind though.
I would totally mind it if I was the mom/dad - you know how many people are going to write "Most Likely to Work on Colfax" or worse things next to her picture?! I'm honestly sad by the fact that a HS senior girl looks at herself as mostly a sex-object and not really much more. She has to have some other pictures that are more appropriate and show her personality/interests. My neice has some really great pictures with her snowboard, in her favorite hiking spot, etc. and she's the same age. I think I have a lot to learn about high school girls.
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LMAO!
Yeah, if she wants to attempt to start her career as an underwear model or whatever, she can find other places to use that pic - there is no reason she needs to look like sexed up trash in a yearbook.
I think for ours if we wanted to submit a privately taken photo, it still had to be the typical head-and-shoulders-only kind of format anyway.
She doesn't have a a scantily clad leg to stand on in this battle.
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they were talking about this on the radio show I listed to this morning, and the news story said that they did have policies in place - chest, abdomen, back, and sides had to be covered in the photo. the reason this picture was allowed through is that the 4 yearbook editors voted to allow it, knowing it violated all the rules the school put forth.
the whole thing is ridiculous. she wants the attention and her mom is a fool for handling it this way.
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Appropriate:
Porn ad
Gentlemen's Club ad
Escort service ad
Inappropriate:
school picture book
The whole thing smacks of "I'm a hot tart and don't you forget it." Seriously, WTF?
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After she gets her boob job and is a big time porn star she's gonna be SO glad they didn't let her publish this picture as she'll be ashamed of her once less than perfect body.
I don't see why it's a controversy. It's obviously inappropriate.
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She looks like she wants to be a porn star.
No. It isn't appropriate for a school-published yearbook. There is no freedom of expression, by the way. (I hate when teenagers try to be all "it's my right!" and they don't even know what they're talking about) It's called freedom of speech and she loses that right when it causes a disruption to the learning environment. This disrupts the learning environment. Done.
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That's interesting, I've read a few articles and they've all said that was their dress code, but not specifically for the book.
Her "freedom of expression" or whatever she's arguing doesn't apply to the yearbook. The yearbook and newspaper staffs in HS publications get to make the editorial decisions with guidance from their teacher and maybe from the administration. It's fairly similar to any publication around, those producing and publishing the document have a say in what can and cannot be included. This is actually a really great learning opportunity for those on the yearbook staff, as they are having to make tough decisions, stand by them and understand they may get backlash for it.
If she want to show off her personality, she can hand out pictures to all her friends instead.
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There's nothing wrong with working on Colfax. Just sayin'....
Yup. "Interested in modeling" - why not start getting some press now?
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Oooooh, I think I know what kind of pictures you are referring to....you know, the ones handed out on the Vegas Strip, right?
I agree with this.
She definitely took it too far, but I really don't think everyone should have to suffer through a boring drape photo now just because of her.
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This. I am so over stupid people screaming "It's my right to..." all the time. Yes, sweetheart. You do have the right to open your mouth so the world knows how stupid you are but that's about where it ends. Rights do not = entitled to do anything you want all the time.