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High School Photoshopped All Traces Of Cleavage In The Yearbook Photos Of Girls, And It Sparks Outrage
“I feel disgusted.”
Students, parents, and school staff must abide by the regulations they signed when they entered the premises. However, female students and their students felt wronged by Bartram Trail High School in St. Johns County, Florida, when they found their yearbook pictures having been edited.
This tweet represented the anger students and parents felt from the edits.
Reporter Ben Ryan from Action News Jax shared pictures of a student from the school that had been photoshopped. When compared, the edited picture had blurred off her cleavage and raised the black shirt the student was wearing.
There appeared to be multiple pictures having been edited. All of them had the same reason: inappropriateness from overly exposed skin.
It appears the school had decided to include everyone regardless if they violated the code of conduct or not.
Ben’s effort to interview and gain more insight on this incident had also been rejected.
Deeper dig: students and parents had claimed they’d worn the same outfits and “never got in trouble.”
“You’re not only affecting their photo, it’s not just for protecting them, you’re making them uncomfortable and feel like their bodies aren’t acceptable in a yearbook,” said Riley O’Keefe, one of the students whose picture was edited.
At this point, the school still refuses to comment on the issue.
“It was just completely unfair,” one girl commented.
80 yearbook pictures edited.
— Ben Ryan (@BenRyanANJax) May 21, 2021
80 girls.
Students say they didn’t receive a dress code violation for wearing the same outfits on other days and tell me the double standard needs to be left in the past.
We won’t stop until we get answers.@ActionNewsJax pic.twitter.com/eLjfWkp9Mz
One of the interviewed students said, “The double standard in the yearbook is more so that they looked at our bodies and thought there’s just a little bit of skin showing was sexual.”
“But then they looked at the boys, for the swim team photos and other sports photos and thought that was fine. And that was upsetting and uncomfortable.”
Angered parents wish their girls aren’t being treated like this.
In new updates, Ben tweeted below.
It appears that these edits were done solely by a female teacher who was in charge of the yearbook. She’s asked the help of students to help with the editing as much as they could.
Parents shared their thoughts and experience on the issue. Some were for, while others were against.
