Controversy Over Florida School Employee Editing Year Book Photos
It’s a fun school time of the year….Graduations, planning for summer, and getting the high school yearbook.
What would you do if you opened your yearbook and saw that your photo had been edited.
Females at a high school in northeast Florida were shocked to see that someone had edited their class photos. Want to see an example?
High school alters more than 60 yearbook photos deemed 'inappropriate' https://t.co/fdiVYNz2vP
— KMOV (@KMOV) May 23, 2021
That’s ridiculous!
They haven’t identified the particular instructor, a female teacher who is the school’s yearbook coordinator in the St. Johns County School District. But the actions have really bothered and hurt the students’ feelings.
Ninth-grader Riley O’Keefe described how she felt upon seeing the edits. “The double standard in the yearbook is more so that they looked at our body and thought 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’s really upsetting and uncomfortable.”
“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,” O’Keefe also pointed out. “The dress code and sexualization of young girls’ bodies has been happening for a long time,” she said. “All the messages I get about people being thankful for me speaking out are worth it, and I’d do it a million times.”
Another ninth-grader, Zoe Iannone, said, “They opened up the yearbook, saw pictures and that was the first thing they worried about. It was unfair and I was horrified. I was disgusted.”
A school representative said they will be refunding the cost of the yearbook to parents and students who had an issue.
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