Colorado Student Banned from Yearbook Over Racy Photo

[ShowtimeSBMVP]

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.



http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/colorado-student-banned-yearbook-over-racy-photo-201606793--abc-news.html

[allen_kcCard]

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/120110011656-sydney-spies-story-top.jpg

[gblowfish]

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

[Easy 6]

Not racy enough imo.

[listopencil]

I guess "Come Over Here And Fuck Me Hard" wasn't the theme this year then?

[Bob Dole]

Yearbooks must have changed quite a bit since Bob Dole was in school. We only got room for a head shot.

[MIAdragon]

http://hungeree.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/sydney_spies_2.jpg

[pr_capone]

That pic has no business being in a HS yearbook. This is a school yearbook... not glamor shots.

[seclark]

looks fine to me.
sin,
doug hutchison

[MIAdragon]

That pic has no business being in a HS yearbook. This is a school yearbook... not glamor shots.

Not sure about your HS but glamour shots were all that were in mine.

[Easy 6]

http://hungeree.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/sydney_spies_2.jpg

DAAAAAAAAAAAANG

Quit yer grinnin and drop yer linen, we're gonna do some sinnin.

[BigMeatballDave]

Yes

[Rooster]

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

LMAOLMAO

[Bambi]

like her

[mikey23545]

Yearbooks must have changed quite a bit since Bob Dole was in school. We only got room for a head shot.

Heh heh...

[QuikSsurfer]

http://www.televisioninternet.com/news/pictures/sspies5.jpg

[Easy 6]

http://www.televisioninternet.com/news/pictures/sspies5.jpg

LMAO avatar rep forthcoming.

[listopencil]

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

"18 year old Sydni Spies..."

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

[QuikSsurfer]

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

"18 year old Sydni Spies..."

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

Oops

[Garcia Bronco]

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

[listopencil]

Oops

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

[Frazod]

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]

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

[HoneyBadger]

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

"18 year old Sydni Spies..."

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

Unless you're participating in No Fap 2012... :banghead:

[eazyb81]

looks fine to me.
sin,
doug hutchison

LMAO

[Reerun_KC]

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]

Too fat/ Omaha

[Hydrae]

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]

“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.



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[Deberg_1990]

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

:facepalm:

[Bowser]

Her legacy is ensured now, either way they decide. Go ahead and let her put the pic in, and everybody can laugh at her when she shows up at the ten year reunion.

[KC-TBB]

We didnt have the internet porn when I was in HS...only sears bra section, natl. geo and the year book and a good imagination.

[BigCatDaddy]

We didnt have the internet porn when I was in HS...only sears bra section, natl. geo and the year book and a good imagination.

Don't forget the SI swimsuit issue. It was like Christmas when that baby came in.

[CHENZ A!]

I'm glad this slut is standing up for her rights.

[Jenson71]

She should watch Young Adult.

[L.A. Chieffan]

Odds she's in playboy within a year -250

[blaise]

Five years from now when she's the cashier at the local CVS someone will say, "Aren't you the girl from the yearbook thing?"

[Mile High Mania]

There's a time and a place for that stuff... I'm not sure it's a Yearbook.

[Pitt Gorilla]

Well, she already has a stripper name.

[Mile High Mania]

There are just so many different ways that a parent can help their daughter... and I'm convinced that pursuing this fight just isn't one of them. They're just trolling for their 15 minutes of fame.

[Caseyguyrr]

No tits, no problem

[lcarus]

We didnt have the internet porn when I was in HS...only sears bra section, natl. geo and the year book and a good imagination.

Wasn't it almost better in a way? I mean, now days nothing is left to the imagination with what you can find on the internet with ease. It's like old horror movies like Texas Chainsaw Massacre, where they didn't show much, but what you imagined was more horrific than anything they could have shown.

[Garcia Bronco]

There is no way I would pay attorney fees over this for my daughter.

[lcarus]

There is no way I would pay attorney fees over this for my daughter.

She can pay the attorney in....other....ways?

[blaise]

There is no way I would pay attorney fees over this for my daughter.

Yeah, they must not be very bright. It's a high school yearbook. A donkey could graduate high school. Some crappy yearbook photo wouldn't be worth $20 to me if I were her parent.

[hometeam]

I'd smash

[talastan]

She can pay the attorney in....other....ways?

I wonder if it is too late to switch my degree to law? :hmmm: ;)

[Predarat]

She is 18 and a definate yes!

[Skyy God]

The ACLU should take this important legal matter of sluts' rights pro bono.

[Pitt Gorilla]

The ACLU should take this important legal matter of sluts' rights pro bono.You said...

[Lumpy]

"Sluts don't have rights... sprayed!"

[Caseyguyrr]

http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w75/caseyguyrr/aqmZf.jpg

[CHENZ A!]

Haha

[luv]

That pic has no business being in a HS yearbook. This is a school yearbook... not glamor shots.

Agreed.

[loochy]

Agreed.

:rolleyes:

[luv]

:rolleyes:

If that was your daughter, would you want that picture in a yearbook?

[loochy]

If that was your daughter, would you want that picture in a yearbook?

No, but it's not my daughter.

If you were a young man, wouldn't you want to gaze upon a very nice looking young woman?

[Stinger]

If that was your daughter, would you want that picture in a yearbook?

If that was my daughter those type of poses/outfit would not have been purchased. Deeper issues here.....

[Backwards Masking]

If that was your daughter, would you want that picture in a yearbook?

I would want my daughter to do Whatever Makes Her Happy. Isn't that what a good parent is Supposed To Do?

[Chief Roundup]

I would want my daughter to do Whatever Makes Her Happy. Isn't that what a good parent is Supposed To Do?

Yes and No. Most teenagers think they know what they want and what will make them happy. But generally what they think is not the way things really are.

[Slayer Diablo]

Interesting how she was allowed to put it in as her "Senior Ad"...editors probably shouldn't have phrased it like that.