
It sends the message that our young girls should be ashamed of their naturally growing bodies. “My daughter has been hospitalized twice this school year due to the stress and pressure this past year has brought upon her, including body image issues, which she is still seeking regular treatment for,” Adrian Bartlett, whose daughter’s photo was edited, said in an email to the Record. “And now, the school has made a decision that is now drawing attention to her body in a negative way. While the school is offering refunds and “receiving feedback from parents/guardians/students on making this process better for next year,” Langston told the Record, some parents are demanding the school reprint the yearbook without digitally altered photos. Now parents and students’ outrage has mounted.
#High school yearbook photos altered code#
Augustine Record that the school’s yearbook coordinator made the edits because the students were “deemed in violation of the student code of conduct.” While school administrators did not respond to the Times’ requests for comment, district spokeswoman Christina Langston told t he St. Under the school’s dress-code policy, female students’ shirts “must be modest and not revealing or distracting” and conceal the “entire shoulder.” Additionally, girls are prohibited from wearing shorts or skirts that are more than four inches above the knee.

The students and their parents got furious, and so did the public. After their yearbook was published, 80 female students reported that their photos were altered to remove any hint of cleavage. Her stepmother added, “They’re all good students, and we’re going to focus on whether you have too much shoulder showing? It’s out of control.” Johns County, Florida recently came under fire for photoshopping girls’ bodies in yearbook photos. “They need to recognize that it’s making girls feel ashamed of their bodies,” Riley O’Keefe, a ninth grader at the school who had a big black bar pasted on top of her chest in her portrait, told the Times. Meanwhile, parents say that no photos of male students were digitally altered. The New York Times reports that in the school’s yearbook from the past term, the photos of at least 80 female students had been conspicuously and clumsily edited to conceal their chests and shoulders. Now the school is facing sharp criticism for Photoshopping yearbook portraits of female students. Some of the girls were asked to lift their arms to see if their shirts raised to expose their stomach one student told a local outlet that a male teacher instructed her to remove her zip-up jacket in front of other staff and students because he seemingly considered her sports bra to be in violation of the school’s code. Earlier this year, the school made headlines after administrators issued 31 citations for infractions of the policy in a single day. The Bartram Trail High School yearbook coordinator made the decision to alter 80 photos of female students that appeared in the school’s yearbook, the district. Johns County, Florida, has long faced criticism for its strict dress-code policy, which parents and students say is enforced inconsistently and unfairly against female students. Parents are demanding an apology after 80 yearbook photos of girls at Bartram Trail High School in Florida were altered to cover cleavage and low necklines. Drawing a line is one thing but the artist prepping those photos likely had a couple of minutes on each image and most of it was edited without much conscious thought.Bartram Trail High School in St. Should there be no editing at all? I don't know I ever had a student not ask for a giant quarter-inch wide zit scab removed, but some were fine with obvious long-term acne scars because they considered them part of their personality. and student center have been relocated more than once, and the East wing was substantially altered in the large 2006 renovation. One of the few available photos of this building is on the cover of the 1910 Quill yearbook. It's sometimes hard to tell who wants what done. East High School, often locally referred to as East or East High, is a public secondary.
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Though he said he enjoyed the work, he felt uncomfortable doing it. Greatfreedom claimed that photoshopping all the students became routine to avoid fewer complaints and change requests.

Fifteen and sixteen year olds with wrinkles and bags under their eyes? Also removed all as a matter of course."
#High school yearbook photos altered skin#
Female student with visible facial hair? we'd take it back to skin tone. "The sheer number of people not happy with their own photos and who requested changes when they were offered meant we got into the workflow of fixing the same common things on every pic. Responding to the student's story, Reddit user Greatfreedom - who claimed to have worked for photo agencies in the past, but not the one in question - said a large part of his job was altering school yearbook images just as seen here:
