Yearbook Photo: Ok or not ok?

kreeper611 · January 2012

What are your thoughts on the yearbook photo issue? Here is a link to the article.

http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/colorado-student-banned-yearbook-over-racy-photo-201606793--abc-news.html

I'm watching the girl & her mom on the Today Show and I don't think it is appropriate for a school yearbook. I am also not sure that if she were my daughter, I would have been thrilled with those photos. Yes, she's 18, but most likely the mom paid for them. I just don't know that I'd hang that on the living room wall...maybe I'm a little too prudish, though.

missjake · January 2012

NOT appropriate for a HS yearbook photo. Good for those students for making the call.

melrrr · January 2012

I'm not a prude, but that is absolutely ridiculous! Is the photographer a guy? Trying to get his foot into the porn world? I don't think any school would allow that picture in a yearbook!

FinallyKrisB · January 2012

There is no way that any of my offspring living under my roof are having pictures made dressed like that with my consent and they sure as heck are not displaying them publicly.

And if they had them done without my consent and I found out about it there would be serious consequences.

halfpintaggie · January 2012

I haven't seen the photo, but based on the description in that article it sounds inappropriate to have in a year-book. But I am a proudly self-proclaimed prude.

However, the yearbook staff said that they'll allow the picture elsewhere in the yearbook, just not as her senior photo. That distinction makes no sense to me, if she's allowed to have it in the year-book, I don't understand why they won't use it one place, but will in another.

FinallyKrisB · January 2012

halfpintaggie · January 2012

Thanks Kris! Having now seen the picture, I can confirm that my original gut instinct was correct. Not yearbook appropriate. But again, I don't understand why it can be in the yearbook at all.

odear · January 2012

Hell to the no. That photo is not appropriate for anywhere in a HS yearbook, nor is it appropraite for "senior photos" at all. It is ridiculous that these people think otherwise.

houstonkdw · January 2012

Totally inappropriate. You PAY for those Senior ads. They are not mandatory and the editors have the right to say "no". Good for them.

almond1123 · January 2012

odear:
Hell to the no. That photo is not appropriate for anywhere in a HS yearbook, nor is it appropraite for "senior photos" at all. It is ridiculous that these people think otherwise.

Yes

michellebelle · January 2012

houstonkdw:
Totally inappropriate. You PAY for those Senior ads. They are not mandatory and the editors have the right to say "no". Good for them.

well isnt she advertising in this photo? lol.hellz no that would not be acceptable for M. i thought the feather boa head shot we were all required to use was risquee back then. i wanted to wear my graduation robe and NHS hood.there was a shot the photographer took of me in a long sleeve dress and it felt too sexy because it accentuated my figure which was already 36 23 35.

melrrr · January 2012

There were plenty of pictures of girls in bikinis in my HS yearbook, but it was always students on spring break, standing around with the arms around each other, being silly, etc. 95% of the problem with that picture is the pose.

kreeper611 · January 2012

After watching them on the Today Show, I also think the mom falls very far into the category of "I'm your friend, not your parent."

KelleyA · January 2012

Honestly it's the pose that bothers me more than the clothes. If she was in a playful pose/location then the clothes might work. Her pose gives off the "come hither" impression and that has no place in a yearbook. Shame on that mom for letting her daughter think that it's appropriate and good for those mature young men and women for making an appropriate decision.

michellebelle · January 2012

totally agree with Melrrr on the pose. Looks like a Maxim cover.

Mrs.JulesH-S · January 2012

I don't care if she is 18, it is not appropriate for a high school yearbook.

houstonkdw · January 2012

KelleyA:
Honestly it's the pose that bothers me more than the clothes. If she was in a playful pose/location then the clothes might work. Her pose gives off the "come hither" impression and that has no place in a yearbook. Shame on that mom for letting her daughter think that it's appropriate and good for those nature young men and women for making an appropriate decision.

Yes

AF84 · January 2012

houstonkdw:
KelleyA:
Honestly it's the pose that bothers me more than the clothes. If she was in a playful pose/location then the clothes might work. Her pose gives off the "come hither" impression and that has no place in a yearbook. Shame on that mom for letting her daughter think that it's appropriate and good for those nature young men and women for making an appropriate decision.

Exactly. Yes

TexasHarmony · January 2012

A scarf does not a shirt make. Just my thoughts. This is Maxim magazine material, not HS yearbook material. As a former yearbook editor, I wouldn't have allowed that to be anywhere in the yearbook. That is just a whorish picture. Shame on her mother for thinking this is ok.

And seriously, the come eff me look while walking up the stairs (presumably to the bedroom) is just skeevy.

halfpintaggie · January 2012

TexasHarmony:

A scarf does not a shirt make. Just my thoughts. This is Maxim magazine material, not HS yearbook material. As a former yearbook editor, I wouldn't have allowed that to be anywhere in the yearbook. That is just a whorish picture. Shame on her mother for thinking this is ok.

And seriously, the come eff me look while walking up the stairs (presumably to the bedroom) is just skeevy.

I'm assuming by bedroom you mean "hourly rate motel room"

darva · January 2012

FinallyKrisB:
There is no way that any of my offspring living under my roof are having pictures made dressed like that with my consent and they sure as heck are not displaying them publicly.

And if they had them done without my consent and I found out about it there would be serious consequences.

Ditto.

I'm pretty sure I was fully dressed in all of my senior pictures. Even one with an SFA sweatshirt that I really liked since that's where I was headed to school. Now that I think about it, I had on jeans/rockies in every single picture. lol

rayskit10 · January 2012

She'll make good money on the main stage.

sarasparks · January 2012

I agree 100% with halfpint - I'm not sure why they are even permitting it in the senior ads. Totally whorish pose with little clothing. But go ahead and waste the tax dollars by brining an attorney into the mix. Joy.

04JaxBride · January 2012

This looks like a great photo to include on your application to become a Hooters waitress. It says, "Hi, I hired a cheesy photographer to shoot me on my apartment complex stairs. Here's my ass, why don't you slap it?"

I would not shoot something like this for a senior. ESPECIALLY if the portrait subject was under 18. I would be super sad if it was in my kid's yearbook!

I love how they act as though the yearbook students were going to allow it at first, but it's the principal who made them think twice... um, GOOD. I'm pretty sure that's the principal's job.

CallMeKel · January 2012

halfpintaggie:
TexasHarmony:

A scarf does not a shirt make. Just my thoughts. This is Maxim magazine material, not HS yearbook material. As a former yearbook editor, I wouldn't have allowed that to be anywhere in the yearbook. That is just a whorish picture. Shame on her mother for thinking this is ok.

And seriously, the come eff me look while walking up the stairs (presumably to the bedroom) is just skeevy.

I'm assuming by bedroom you mean "hourly rate motel room"

I share Harmony & HalfPints sentiments exactly. F#$K no, I'd never let my child wear that in a picture of ANY sort! In fact, the only way my child would be allowed to wear that would be over my dead body.

Shame on that mother!

LMA06 · January 2012

I don't think that picture is appropriate for the year book. And good for the students who run the year book to say so.

CareBear01 · January 2012

I am wondering if they are some sort of model shots? I could see it being something like that. Then maybe she figured she could kill 2 birds with 1 stone and not have to repay for Sr. portraits, so she submitted her modeling shot? I mean, it is a racy photo, but this girl has got to be days away from turning 18, if not already, so I don't think it's too racy for her age - but like I said, this looks like a modeling shot, which would be par for the course. I do agree that it is not appropriate for a school YB, though.

txbootsy · January 2012

melrrr:
There were plenty of pictures of girls in bikinis in my HS yearbook, but it was always students on spring break, standing around with the arms around each other, being silly, etc. 95% of the problem with that picture is the pose.

I agree, the pose is racy with the booty pop!

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