Florida excessive school criticized for altering yearbook photos

ST. JOHNS, Fla. (AP) — folks and students are criticizing teachers at a Florida high faculty for digitally altering pictures in a yearbook to be able to cowl up college students whose clothes the faculty officials deemed too conceited.

The St. Augustine list reported that eighty students at Bartram path high school in northeast Florida had their yearbook pictures altered devoid of their consent with the intention to cowl up exposed shoulders and low necklines.

Adrian Bartlett referred to her daughter's yearbook picture turned into edited so as to add more shirt insurance.

"I suppose it sends the message that our girls should be ashamed of their starting to be our bodies, and that i think that's a horrible message to send out to these young women which are going via these adjustments," Bartlett talked about.

The faculty's yearbook coordinator, who's a instructor, determined that the photos had been out of gown code and did one of the editing, observed Christina Langston, college district spokeswoman.

Some fogeys and college students have in the past complained that the district's dress code is sexist, noting that greater than eighty% of infractions over the closing three years were issued to feminine college students, and that a photo of male students in swim briefs through a pool made it into the yearbook with out enhancing.

Langston noted a call turned into made now not to edit any group or club photos. The excessive college's site says that each one student pictures in the yearbook "can be digitally adjusted" if they don't conform to the faculty district's code of habits.

"Bartram trail high faculty's outdated procedure turned into to now not include pupil photos in the yearbook that they deemed in violation of the pupil code of conduct, so the digital adjustments had been an answer to make sure all students had been included within the yearbook," Langston spoke of.

The school is offering yearbook refunds to any one who complains about the alterations and needs to turn in their yearbook, the schools spokeswoman pointed out.