Florida high school issuing refunds after editing yearbook photos of 80 female studends for modesty

[PSPS]

A Florida high school is issuing refunds to families after editing yearbook photos of 80 female students so they'd appear more modest

A Florida high school is issuing refunds to parents who bought a yearbook with dozens of edited photos of its female students. Bartram Trail High School edited the photos of 80 female students, according to the St. Augustine Record. The photos appear to have been edited for modesty. "There's a black box over my chest and the cardigan on the side like moved over and it looks really awkward and I was very confused," a student told News4Jax.

News4Jax reported Ben Ryan posted an example to Twitter of a student whose breasts were covered for the photo.

Link to tweet

More at: https://www.insider.com/florida-high-school-issuing-refunds-after-editing-yearbook-photos-2021-5

[catrose]

2. I thought when I first heard that these photos were activity photos with wardrobe malfunctions

These are official school photos, and the young women were allowed to wear the clothes to school. Then the yearbook perv-editor decides no?

[Volaris]

3. Thats not immodest, it's a TANK TOP.

Only republican perverts who wanna ogle a 17yo's cleavage would have any issue with that.

They're luckey they didnt get sued.

[Jim__]

4. Given the opportunity, those same editors would vote to return Matt Gaetz to congress. - n/t

[lpbk2713]

5. Bosoms!!11!

Oh noes.

[ProfessorGAC]

12. Two Of Them Don't Even Show That!

The second & third example are bizarre!
I don't see anything in the "before" photo that anybody would find immodest.
They cropped the photo of the one young lady to show less neck?

[FakeNoose]

6. Well you know how those teenage boy are

They'll get excited over literally anything!

[MuseRider]

7. OMG

The girls have....BOOBS!

Good grief. These are racy? Too much?

Trashy is not this.

Maybe next year they will provide them with robes and maybe after that hoods and/or face covering?

Maybe it is just me but I saw nothing wrong with the girls and everything wrong with the chosen solution..

[Hekate]

8. This is ancient history, but our senior photos were probably airbrushed a bit to improve the zits...

...on some of the kids, which was a kindness.

But on the few photos presented here, that’s not what the so-called editors did. Aside from adding to a tank-top, they did a clumsy job of blurring a girl’s teeth to hide the braces, and for some unfathomable reason they decided another girl’s face was too broad and spoiled her good looks by making it thinner.

Idiots.

[DFW]

9. Diseased minds n/t

[Ms. Toad]

10. No. Click through to the full pictures.

All 3 pictures were edited to cover cleavage. The rest is just a low resolution photo of the edited version and taking a picture of a page at a slight angle (which appears to narrow the face)

[Hekate]

20. Okay, I see. What a clumsy mess.

Also, there’s 20 minutes of my life I won’t get back from trying to find the correct link out of many, and dodging the incredible number of ads.

[Ms. Toad]

22. Luckily, I managed to click through easily from twitter.

I tried to get a link to one of the images, but couldn't get a jpg link. Sorry!

Horrible mess - and close to kindergarten level editing.

[Make7]

30. You can edit Twitter image addresses to display here.

Just delete everything from the question mark to the end and then add a period plus the image format. Example:


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/​E13VMy5XoAUAxfx?format=jpg&name=small

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/​E13VMy5XoAUAxfx.jpg

[Ms. Toad]

33. Thanks! n/t

[MagickMuffin]

11. The "photo editors" were really BAD at their job

Check out the young lady in the top photo above. The edit of the shirt you can see her shoulder. They didn't even try. Just cover up the cleavage, because someone might get a little too excited!

Whoever made this decision should be fired and never allowed to be around young women.

[Hekate]

27. If I understand correctly from the full article, it's all down to one female teacher, who did the...

...photoshop butchery herself, in addition to making the decisions. One girl’s shirt was one she had worn frequently to school that year, and never been flagged for breaking the dress code.

It’s really galling that the “refund offer” is only for returned books that have never been signed — that is, students are deprived of even a memento their friends can all sign. Personally, I think the school should eat the cost for the entire fiasco, and let the kids keep their books.

As for the teacher, She really needs to be reassigned to some area more in keeping with her capabilities.

[MiniMe]

13. It's boobs and shoulders

God forbid you show some naked shoulder

[tanyev]

17. Girls nowadays!

Oh wait....

[hunter]

14. A lot of this bulk Photoshop work is exported to nations...

... that have standards of female "modesty" very similar to those of U.S.A. Evangelicals.

Patriarchal fundamentalist religions and cultures are twisted -- not in a good way.

[csziggy]

15. Not a single one of the examples is revealing

Other than showing normal cleavage in a modest way.

I was expecting something like Barbara Eden's outfit on "I Dream of Jeannie" or a midriff top showing the belly button. Not modest tops with a tiny bit of cleavage.

It gets worse - here's an article with more badly edited pictures of young women:

https://www.staugustine.com/story/news/education/2021/05/21/st-johns-county-parents-angery-yearbook-photo-edits-girls-clothes-bartram-trail-high-school-florida/5199666001/

It also discusses how the dress code is sexist being stricter for girls than boys.

[Delmette2.0]

18. So the young women were allowed in school for the day,

and not sent home. Yet the yearbook pictures were edited.

[csziggy]

21. I don't know how that school does it

For all but our senior year, photos were taken in school. Our senior pictures were taken at a photographer's office and the girls were given "drapes" that probably would not have met this school's dress code since they left our shoulders partially bared.

I HATE my senior year picture - Mom forced me to have my hair "done" which involved an allergy attack because of all the scented products. Then she and my sister put make up on me - another step on the allergy scale since in 1970 there were no affordable hypo-allergenic make-up lines.

Then, instead of the plain velvet drapes like my older sisters had worn for their photos, that year they decided that girls needed to have frilly drapes. They made us wear these frothy, frilly things that just look stupid. My husband says he likes the "fire" in my eyes in the pictures - I was pissed as hell and ready to grab the camera and beat the photographer with it - he kept trying to get me to smile when I was absolutely miserable with the scratchy frilly thing, the stiff hair, and the gawdawfull makeup.

When I was finally free, I went home and took a nice hot shower, getting all the crap out of my hair and the cakey makeup off my face. Mom never forgave me for washing out my hair after the money she spent on it.

I've been in a beauty salon twice since then - once to have my hair washed when I couldn't do it due to shoulder surgery (after that, my husband helped me wash it after each surgery), and once to have it trimmed - which I totally regretted. I trim my long hair with paper scissors every few months and I haven't worn makeup for forty years. I also don't wear anything frilly - jeans and tee shirts are my normal dress.

[Delmette2.0]

23. I am class of '71.

We had the V-shaped drape and feathers for our proofs to review. I ultimately went with my own dress. I can't stop wondering what that school would think of the feathers.
LOL.

[csziggy]

24. We had no choice - their drape was it

Feathers would have put me over the edge. My grandmother had given us down filled comforters and I could not sleep under them without wheezing. I would have been sneezing my face off with a feathered drape!

I wish we'd been able to wear our own dresses - I would have picked the one I had to make for Home Ec, or maybe the dress Mom sewed for me to wear to the prom. Of course, my prom dress would NOT have been "appropriate" for this high school - it showed just the tiniest bit of cleavage {GASP}!

[Hekate]

28. In 1965 the photographer supplied the outfit for the senior-class girls: a backwards sweater...

... and a necklace with a single pearl. The backwards sweater was a thing just then, presenting a smooth knit front with no buttons. The boys wore a white shirt, tie, and sport coat ensemble — it is possible the studio kept some loaners on hand for them, too, because not everyone’s family had a coat and tie in the budget.

There are group photos from various girls’ clubs that have a uniform off the-shoulder-top like the ones in the photo someone supplied here — and those “flip” hairdos and the bouffant ‘dos. They were trying to look grownup and sophisticated, yet demure. So cute.

I forgot: everything was black and white.

I am so glad I didn’t go through an ordeal like yours. Lordy. As for the “fire in your eyes,” LOL. My grandma’s grad photo from 1908 shows a lovely young woman with her hair done up, wearing a locket, and to me she always looked pleasant — yet it was my mom who told me that that particular expression was “her really angry look.” Seems my grandma’s mama ordered her to carry the bouquet of the boy who was just a friend because he gave it to her first, and not the bouquet of the boy she actually fancied. I think high school graduation can be a rather fraught rite of passage.

My son wore a mohawk in his graduation photo. How times change, eh?

[csziggy]

29. Oh, a backwards sweater would not have worked here in Florida!

Way too hot and prickly. I made a deal with my parents - I went to my high school graduation on the terms that I would never have to attend another graduation ceremony. WIN!

[Takket]

16. maybe this is the outfit they are looking for...

.webp

[MiniMe]

25. Either that or Burkas

[Towlie]

19. That's way up in North Florida, about 30 miles south of Jacksonville. Not surprising.

 
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Bartram Trail High School

[rockfordfile]

26. DeSantis and his type are a un-American pos.

[Nexus2]

31. If they were going to have strict dress code for the Yearbook, why not just tell the students.

not do this clandestine stuff and end up spending more for editors?

[WarGamer]

32. back in my day...

they just refused to publish the pic and gave you a "Photo Shy" message where your photo would be.

Or they had a day that was "make-up" portrait day.

I have no problems with dress code but this is arbitrary and frankly... weird.

[MustLoveBeagles]

34. There's nothing wrong with what these girls are wearing

I think this sends a damaging message to girls.

[BlueWavePsych]

35. What's next? Florida may require all women to wear modest clothing, like hijabs, niqabs and burkas!

One step closer to Gilead!

[shrike3]

36. That's just plain weird.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

37. Are they doing that to boys pictures as well ?

Yeah thought not!

Wow hope you don't have to pay extra for that editing, hate those upcharges