Bartram Trail High School in St. Johns County, Florida has come under the media spotlight for all the wrong reasons. It turns out, the prudish school has put a weird editing twist on its students’ yearbook photos and covered up all traces of girls’ cleavage.
The news about photoshopped photos, all of which featured girls, broke after a reporter, Ben Ryan of
Action News Jax, shared his investigation of the matter on Twitter. According to the school district, girls’ yearbook photos must follow dress code guidelines and they deemed the 80 pictures inappropriate. Meanwhile, the boys’ pictures from the swim team and other sports photos were left unedited.
Parents upset daughter s yearbook photo was altered at Bartram Trail High School
A 9th grade student was wearing an outfit that the school told her met the dress code requirements, yet the school decided to edit the photo for the yearbook. Author: Leah Shields Updated: 11:37 PM EDT May 20, 2021
ST JOHNS, Fla. Some local parents with kids at Bartram Trail High School are outraged after receiving their child s yearbook and seeing their child s photo had been edited without permission.
The photos below are just one example. Riley O Keefe was wearing an outfit that the school told her met the dress code requirements, yet the school decided to edit the photo that appeared in the yearbook to cover up part of the student s body. O Keefe told First Coast News she believes there s a double standard and pointed out members of the boys swim team were in the yearbook wearing speedos.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla As life begins to get back to normal, children, like adults, are adapting to the new norm. Chatting over Zoom, social distancing and face masks have become commonplace.
Siblings Connor, 8, Baylor, 11, and Madeline Riley, 14, are among those adapting to the changes.
“I went distance learning just so I could have more time myself,” Madeline Riley said.
A freshman at Bartram Trail High, she never considered learning from home before the pandemic.
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Students in St. Johns and Duval Counties are speaking to First Coast News about their concerns of discriminatory language in school dress code policies. Author: Leah Shields, Nick Moron Published: 6:02 PM EDT April 29, 2021 Updated: 6:08 PM EDT April 29, 2021
JACKSONVILLE, Fla Families across the First Coast are challenging their school district’s dress code policies calling the rules sexist and out of date. Dress code controversies have evolved over the years to become a fight against the sexualization of young girls.
“Sexual objectification is a huge thing in our school especially, said Laila Khazravan, a student at Bartram Trail High School.