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ShowtimeSBMVP · 01-10-2012, 02:07 PM

A Colorado teenager whose yearbook picture was rejected for being too revealing is vowing to fight the ban with her high school’s administration, but the editors of the yearbook insist it was their decision alone on the photo.
The five student editors of the Durango High School yearbook in Durango, Col., told the Durango Herald they were the ones who made the call not to publish a picture of senior Sydney Spies posing in a short yellow skirt midriff and shoulder-exposing black shawl as her senior portrait.

“We are an award-winning yearbook. We don’t want to diminish the quality with something that can be seen as unprofessional,” student Brian Jaramillo told the paper on Thursday.

Spies was joined by her mother, Miki Spies, and a handful of fellow Durango High students and alumni in a protest outside the school Wednesday after, she said, administrators informed her the photo would not be permitted because it violated dress code.

“I feel like they aren’t allowing me to have my freedom of expression,” Spies told the Herald. ”I think the administration is wrong in this situation, and I don’t want this to happen to other people.”

The five editors, who said their decision was unanimous, said Spies’ blame was misplaced, in both targeting the administration, and believing that it was a dress code issue.

They also offered her an opportunity to include the photo in the yearbook, just not as her senior photo.

“If she (Spies) chooses to, the picture will run as her senior ad, not her senior portrait,” Trujillo said.

Despite the clarification from her peers into how and why the decision was made, a meeting Spies initiated between herself, her mother, and the school’s principal, Diane Lashinsky, was held today as planned.

“The editors all turned their backs on me and changed their minds,” she told the Herald. “I really do feel like they were intimidated by the principal.”

Neither Spies nor the school responded to ABCNews.com‘s requests for comments today on the meeting’s outcome.

The Durango School District, which oversees the high school, issued the following statement to ABCNews.com

“The editors of Durango High School’s yearbook informed a senior student in December that her photo in question would not be included as a senior portrait in the yearbook and asked her to submit a replacement. Durango School District 9-R’s administration supports this decision.”

Prior to today’s meeting, the Spies family told local media they planned to meet with a civil lawyer in Denver to review their daughter’s case.

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**QuikSsurfer** · 01-10-2012, 02:20 PM

**Easy 6** · 01-10-2012, 02:21 PM

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listopencil · 01-10-2012, 02:22 PM

http://news.yahoo.com/video/us-15749625/27828136

"18 year old Sydni Spies..."

Commence guilt free fapping y'all. You're welcome.

**QuikSsurfer** · 01-10-2012, 02:23 PM

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Originally Posted by listopencil

http://news.yahoo.com/video/us-15749625/27828136

"18 year old Sydni Spies..."

Commence guilt free fapping y'all. You're welcome.

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Garcia Bronco · 01-10-2012, 02:24 PM

wow...a girl with self-esteem problems. Atleast she's the only one.

listopencil · 01-10-2012, 02:25 PM

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Originally Posted by QuikSsurfer

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I copied the link from the page that was hosting the article. IDK why it's not working.

Frazod · 01-10-2012, 02:27 PM

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Voted "Most Likely to Be Riding a Pole in Clear Heels..."

Yep.

I guess they knew that if they put that picture in, half the yearbooks issued would have those pages stuck together anyway.

Sofa King · 01-10-2012, 02:32 PM

Well she's definitely getting the attention she so dearly craves.

HoneyBadger · 01-10-2012, 02:41 PM

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Originally Posted by listopencil

http://news.yahoo.com/video/us-15749625/27828136

"18 year old Sydni Spies..."

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eazyb81 · 01-10-2012, 02:43 PM

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looks fine to me.
sin,
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Reerun_KC · 01-10-2012, 02:44 PM

You know she has gotten some nudies out there somewhere...

Its just a matter of time before someone hacks her phone or finds them...

SPchief · 01-10-2012, 02:44 PM

Too fat/ Omaha

Hydrae · 01-10-2012, 02:44 PM

3 of the editors for the yearbook are female...they are jealous.
1 of the editors is male...he was unavailable for comment as he was busy in the darkroom.

kc rush · 01-10-2012, 02:45 PM

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“We are an award-winning yearbook. We don’t want to diminish the quality with something that can be seen as unprofessional,” student Brian Jaramillo told the paper on Thursday.

Deberg_1990 · 01-10-2012, 02:46 PM

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Originally Posted by ChiefsandO'sfan

“I feel like they aren’t allowing me to have my freedom of expression,” Spies told the Herald.

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