It’s tradition.
Like letterman jackets, overpriced Josten’s trinkets, and uncomfortably itchy graduation robes.
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Because someone was clever enough to monetize the staffer’s prudery and ignorance.
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Florida, nuff said, though soon coming to more poorly administered schools soon.
At what point do students just start publishing their own yearbook to quash this shit? Seems like a great business venture for some entrepreneur!
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Florida Man runs amok with PhotoShop!
After reading the full article, it does feel a bit like the yearbook sponsor has been thrown under the bus for what is a matter of (bad) policy. It is never established that this was her preference, just that the school wants the dress code strictly enforced. It seems odd though that they wouldn’t approach the students for new photos rather than taking the time to edit the image as they did this year or leaving them out as they did in past years.
I work for a college with an active religious affiliation in a fairly conservative region of the Midwest, and even we don’t censor yearbook photos. However, I have spent more time than I care to admit over the last year using Photoshop to pull masks that had slipped below noses back up before sharing them in publications and social media. It was easier than dealing with the inevitable “gotcha” complaints calling into question our strict mask policies. I don’t think any of the students ever noticed their masks had been edited either.
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Nothing about the big stage of life rituals is grounded in practicality. A full length, often nylon, robe is wildly impractical as clothing in June.
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These remind me of a colourised photo of my grandmother (then 17) where it turns out that it wasn’t a collar and buttons on a green undershirt. It was necklace and a rather lot of cleavage. Not sure if the colourist knew they were editing or not.
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What year was taken, if you don’t mind me asking.
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Yes, that showed real talent. She definitely has a future as a Photoshop expert. /s
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Reminds me of the possibly apocryphal story of Noah Webster’s response to a group of prudes congratulating him for leaving out dirty words:
“You mean you looked?”
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Would have been early 1940’s, in England.
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You know, had this teacher simply cropped the photos to a standard close up shot, she would have saved her job and a shit load of embarrassment. Nobody would have noticed the changes and it would be applied across the board. Instead she got full of herself and had the photos photoshopped badly.
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I’m assuming that by “modest,” they mean that all of the Rolexes, Louis Vuitton bags, name brand clothing and other ostentatious displays of wealth were obscured. /s
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Read a news article on this. If she was acting under direction, then the leadership of the public school (not a religious school) where this happened, is throwing her under the bus and saying that she acted completely on her own.
Also, some high school girls have boobs (OMG!), and thus when wearing normal socially acceptable clothes, have a bit of cleavage. Whether or not that registers as “sexual” says more about the viewer than the girls wearing completely normal clothes (and might I add, that makes this whole thing super creepy).
Also, the fact that the male swim team is featured in speedos pretty much rules out any “modesty” defense. So… banana hammocks are fine for the guys, but a teeny bit of cleavage is not ok for the girls? Double standard much?
Also, someone at the source I saw this at earlier found a yearbook from the 50’s, and guess what? The girls there also had unedited “immodest” photos…
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my 1987 yearbook picture was cropped all to hell… it began right at the top of my forehead so that you could not see the mohawk.
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Reminiscent of this:
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While I was originally of the same opinion, I’m not entirely sure the yearbook coordinate Anne Irwin was entirely to blame. It was a bad decision, but if the administration gave her a choice between not including them at all or butchering them in photoshop, she might have been between a rock and a hard place. The school’s statement seems ambiguous on whether she had the option of including the original unshopped photos. Of course the correct course of action in that case would be to protest the sexist shaming on behalf of the yearbook committee and students.
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I don’t want to shatter your whole world but…sexy female clothing goes back all the way to ancient Egypt at least. 
Modern prudes like to talk about “traditions” but they would’ve been prudes in most ages and societies, even Victorians. (Look up: Prince Albert, both meanings)
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