Colorado Student Banned from Yearbook Over Racy Photo

[Blue_Tires]

A Colorado teenager whose yearbook picture was rejected for being too revealing is vowing to fight the ban with her high school’s administration, but the editors of the yearbook insist it was their decision alone on the photo.

The five student editors of the Durango High School yearbook in Durango, Col., told the Durango Herald they were the ones who made the call not to publish a picture of senior Sydney Spies posing in a short yellow skirt midriff and shoulder-exposing black shawl as her senior portrait.

Spies was joined by her mother, Miki Spies, and a handful of fellow Durango High students and alumni in a protest outside the school Wednesday after, she said, administrators informed her the photo would not be permitted because it violated dress code.

The five editors, who said their decision was unanimous, said Spies’ blame was misplaced, in both targeting the administration, and believing that it was a dress code issue. They also offered her an opportunity to include the photo in the yearbook, just not as her senior photo.

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

I've seen some entitlement-minded brats before, but this could be a hall-of-fame candidate...

[chrisa]

1. Another thought - why would she want that in her yearbook?

[femmocrat]

2. And yet they "offered her an opportunity to include the photo in the yearbook"---

WTF?

[likesmountains 52]

9. They offered her the choice to put her pic in the section of the yearbook that is private ads paid

for by families...usually this section has baby pictures of the graduates and congratulatory messages from their families.

[XemaSab]

24. Which is appropriate

'cause it sure looks like she's advertising something.

[blueamy66]

17. Can you say lawsuit?

Parents these days think that their little darlings are perfect and are hell bent on hiring lawyers to protect them and make $.

My Mom would have smacked me upside the head if I posed like that for my Senior pic. Hell, my stepson wore a tux. He looked good.

And to answer your question....No, the mother has no common sense.

[nadine_mn]

4. I feel so old - after looking at the picture

I can't believe that she is a high school student! I remember what I looked like in the late 80's early 90's (and my fellow classmates) - if we tried that we would have looked hillarious, not sexy.

My mom helped pick out my outfits (lots of sweaters - high neck) and was with me on my shoot and also had final say over all my pictures (of course I was only 16 when I started my senior yr). Maybe times have changed, but what parent approves of that?

Nevermind - look at the Kardashians, instead of being appalled at her daughter's sex tape, Kris has launched a whole empire on her daughter's backside. That is the culture now, sheesh I feel like a fuddy duddy.

[mythology]

14. I'd say that she looks ridiculous myself

I think she's trying way too hard to try to look sexy and winds up looking like a little kid who is playing dress up. I tend to think that if you're working that hard to be sexy, you lose the fluidness and spontaneity that I think is at the core of sexy.

[FloridaJudy]

5. That would be more than a little embarassing

If she ever tried to run for political office or get a high level job later. If I were her parent, I'd discourage her from posing like that, not because I'm a prude but because that kind of shit can come back and bite you on the ass.

[Orrex]

6. I would have banned it, too

That background is much too busy.

[flying rabbit]

7. She should get the same crappy-from-the-shoulders-up

-airbrushing-the zits-out-with-the-lame-background-senior-photo like everyone else. Or do they do it differently now?

[PassingFair]

18. You have to PAY for the picture now.

So unless you want to pay for the crappy "school picture" pictures,
you have to shop around for a photographer.

Expensive.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

8. I'm not sure on this one.

She's a young woman, not a 'little girl' anymore, and while the picture might be considered 'sexy', its not obscene. I wonder if there was some jealousy or other motive behind the student editor panel's decision.

[Major Nikon]

10. I don't think it's really a matter of obscenity or not

If this were my kids' yearbook, I wouldn't want that picture included with the other seniors simply because it's not an appropriate picture for that venue. It would be like someone posing in their PJs or a clown outfit. Just because it's not obscene, doesn't mean it's appropriate for that setting.

[Gabi Hayes]

11. after seeing that picture, I wouldn't be surprised to be seeing a lot

'less' of her in the not too distant future

you go girl

right here:

[Grantuspeace]

12. Girls didnt look like that when i was in school. n/t

[hunter]

25. Yeah. She has clothes on. And makeup.

I was in high school at the peak of the streaking fad.

As graduation and summer vacation approached, the fashion at our school was to wear as little clothing as possible and to look like you just crawled out of bed, or you'd just had sex and a smoke in the park.

Graduation pictures weren't especially fancy. The vice principal struggled to get everyone to wear appropriate shirts and blouses. A few kids ended up with the shirts, blouses and jackets provided by the school because they'd showed up on picture day wearing something inappropriate. A few guys pushed the envelope and were allowed to wear big ruffled collars, turtlenecks, or sequins; a few girls managed to show off some cleavage...

Frankly, the school I graduated from was a zoo. Maybe it was some kind of post Viet Nam War exuberance. The draft was over.

[CatholicEdHead]

13. It is a mute point now

It is all over the press and she now has way more exposure than if they did nothing.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

15. Sydney Spies -- good name

for a stripper.

[Art_from_Ark]

16. My friend from Austria had that beat hands-down--

There was a picture in his yearbook of everyone in his class skiing down a mountainside in Switzerland naked

[WolverineDG]

19. Publicity stunt

Those pictures are way too racy for a high school yearbook. So she wants to show everyone she's a model--there are tons of poses out there that can show she's a model & won't make her look like a tramp.

[Blue_Tires]

21. publicity stunt/attention whoring....

[WolverineDG]

22. Whatcha wanna bet that

Agents are calling her now? Mission accomplished.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

20. Her second pic was denied as well.

[HopeHoops]

23. If that's "racy", Durango must be one boring ass place to live.

It might be a little provocative, but certainly not obscene and I really don't think it qualifies for "racy" either. She'd probably regret it in 20 years, but that's her decision. It's sort of the opposite of a dorky yearbook picture, but I don't see any reason to ban it.

[bluedigger]

26. Update: now with sexy booking photo; Mom, too. "Mother, daughter arrested at loud drinking party"

Sydney Spies, the former Durango High School student who gained international attention for her submission of a racy yearbook photo, was arrested early Monday in Durango, along with her mother.

Spies, 18, is suspected of obstructing a police officer, a misdemeanor. She was released early Monday from the La Plata County Jail on $500 bail.

Her mother, Denise “Miki” Spies, 45, was arrested on suspicion of contributing to the delinquency of a minor — a felony, and obstructing a police officer and resisting arrest — both misdemeanors. She was released early Monday on $10,000 bail.

Miki Spies declined to comment on her arrest.

http://www.cortezjournal.com/article/20120816/NEWS01/708169995/-1/News01/Mother-daughter-arrested-at-loud-drinking-party

[Blue_Tires]

27. brilliant