Florida High School Alters Girls' Yearbook Pics To Hide Their Chests They altered 80 'immodest' pictures. WTF?!
Bartram Trail High School in St. Johns County, Florida opted to alter the photos of dozens of girls whose picture day attire was apparently deemed to be in violation of the, which says girls’ “tops and shirts must cover the entire shoulder and they must be modest and not revealing or distracting.” The school’s website reads that yearbook photos “must be consistent with the St. Johns County School District Student Code of Conduct or may be digitally adjusted.
Another district mom, Adrian Bartlett, is speaking out on behalf of her 15-year-old daughter Brooke. The teen’s yearbook photo included a poorly photoshopped square of her plaid-patterned shirt placed over her chest.“The school did a horrible job of protecting our children’s mental health by body-shaming,” Bartlett tells. “It’s making our kids feel like they should cover up their bodies, they should be ashamed of them, and it was humiliating for many of them.
Bartlett tells Scary Mommy that the district is stating that they will change the dress code but that “the proposed edits were laughable.” Fabre tells us that it sounds like yearbooks won’t be reprinted, despite parents, including Bartlett, asking for that to happen. “We’ve been given no indication that the school has any intention of reprinting the yearbooks but has acknowledged that the dress code needs to be changed,” Fabre says.