By Katie Kindelan
Jan 6, 2012 3:15pm
Colorado Student Banned from Yearbook Over Racy Photo
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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.
“We are an award-winning yearbook. We don’t want to diminish the quality with something that can be seen as unprofessional,” student Brian Jaramillo told the paper on Thursday.
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.
“I feel like they aren’t allowing me to have my freedom of expression,” Spies told the Herald. ”I think the administration is wrong in this situation, and I don’t want this to happen to other people.”
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.
I visited this woman's facebook (the mother) and my god, the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree. I feel sorry for the girl, having such a moron for a parent.
why would someone would like to have a photo.like that in a yearbook, did you want to remember or show to your kids that you was the biggest **** of your school.
She looks like a model, not a ****. Like seriously, she's not putting her finger in her mouth like Lindsay Lohan in her Speak album cover or holding a knife like one of Katy Perry's pics.
I thought it was going to be like her in S&M and Latex or something from the article.
