Reported recently about a high school’s 2021 yearbook, parents have complained about Bartram Trail High School’s editing on their daughter’s senior pictures.
There have reportedly been over 60 snaps of photos that have been edited because they were deemed as “inappropriate,” whereas there were a minimum amount of accounts with guys’ photos being edited.
There are pictures going around on the Internet to show that most of the girls’ shirts were photoshopped to bring their neckline up higher, yet boys in skimpy speedos were not touched at all.
Riley O’Keefe, a ninth-grader at the high school, was shocked to see her outfit being altered because the school had already approved her outfit before even taking her pictures.
O’Keefe’s mother, Stephanie, comments “Yesterday she happened to be wearing the shirt again so after school, we went up to the school and asked if she was in dress code and they said yes.”
“So my next question was if the shirt is in dress code and is good enough for school and your school ID, why is it not enough for the yearbook?”
Other students who had brought up the same situation said they felt “sexualized” by the school because their outfits were not inappropriate at all.
Another ninth grader, Zoe Iannone, said she felt “confident that day.” Yet when the yearbook proofs came in the mail, she said that she felt very sexualized from the edits.
The school told parents that they were able to request a refund if they were not satisfied with the yearbook and its photos.
A mother comments that it doesn’t fix the problem at hand, that the daughters of the school deserve an apology because they are embarrassing them for being a girl. The school is currently under fire, and there are no updates of what has happened at this time.
This is not the first incident where editing has caused a scene for a high school yearbook. In 2017, a New Jersey high school had gotten on the news for editing out a Donald Trump t-shirt that a student had worn for his yearbook photo.