High School Photoshopped All Females' School Photos By Removing Traces Of Their Cleavage

Bartram Trail High School in St. Johns County, Florida, ended up at the center of a yearbook controversy after school officials edited photos of female students they said showed too much cleavage.

The school district said about 80 pictures did not meet the dress code, while boys' swim team photos and other sports images were left untouched. Parents and students were stunned, and the backlash spread fast online.

Now the edited yearbook photos are drawing even more attention, and the reaction has been anything but quiet.

Reporter Ben Ryan investigated the high school that edited the photos of 80 girls in its yearbook album.

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Here we can see one example of the editing done by the high school.

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Riley O'Keefe, a student at this high school, decided to speak up, and he was spot on.

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The edits did not go unnoticed.

Ben looked at the yearbook and talked to the parents and students, discovering just how many pictures were edited.

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Not only are they edited for no reason, but the editing is also atrocious.

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Just another one of the students who had her cleavage covered up for absolutely no reason.

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The high school issued a statement saying that the photos which were edited were in violation of the school's dress code.

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And, of course, no one was available for an interview with Ben.

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That explanation did not calm anyone down.

The students never had any issues wearing the exact same clothes around the school.

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Ben found and posted the dress code for the high school.

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And here's the rest of it.

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This is the same kind of drama as a group vacation split blowup after changing costs without consulting everyone.

Ben worked hard to try to get some answers, but no one would confront him.

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The backlash kept building from there.

Needless to say, nobody was happy with this.

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People on Twitter weren't hesitant in sharing their opinions.

Nezalhualixtlan

This is exactly that: a case of sexualizing young girls for no reason.

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God forbid someone sees a girl's shoulders.

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However, not everyone had the same opinion on this matter.

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Some people pushed back just as hard.

This is just spot on.

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Opinions like this were met with a lot of criticism.

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The meaning of modesty is different for everyone.

kekepania71 YourBlackTabby

Making an issue out of nothing.

SMRiveraVasquez

No reason to ruin someone's yearbook.

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Reminder: the boys' photos weren't censored in any way.

MissLindner

Just some ordinary clothes.

karenkawrites

Something we can all agree on.

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Embarrassing young girls for absolutely no reason.

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These are just some of the opinions people on Twitter had about this scandal, and we can see that there are people agreeing with the school and the actions they took. The definition of modesty is different for everyone, and that's what the problem here is.

Regardless of whether or not the girls were showing too much, this was definitely not the right way to address the issue. Editing the photos without letting the girls know what was happening is not the right way to go about this, and that's the biggest issue here.

The yearbook controversy still leaves plenty of people shaking their heads.

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