DON'T MESS WITH MY YEARBOOK!

     Back in high school, one of the most important days for a student was taking yearbook pictures. Girls would get all gussied up and the guys would come in with their best shirts. What if I were to tell you that it didn't matter what you wore because the yearbook staff would only end up editing your photo anyway? You'd probably be pretty pissed that they doctored your photo at all besides covering up a blemish here and there. That's what happened at a Utah high school, who recently came under fire for secretly Photoshopping yearbook photos to make the girls in the school look less sexy. Yes. That happened!

     Teachers at Wasatch High School have sparked outrage after they manipulated pictures of some female pupils so that they showed less skin. Students made the discovery when they opened up their yearbook to see they were wearing different outfits. One sophomore at the high school, who had her photo altered to add black sleeves to her top, said, "I feel like they put names in a hat and pick and choose who. There were plenty of girls who were wearing thicker tank tops and half of them got edited and half of them didn't." Another sophomore at the school also had her shoulders covered up with a white top. 

     What seemed to really piss off those affected, however, was the apparent random editing process. In one case, two girls wearing nearly identical tops saw only one of them altered, while the other top remained the way it originally looked. Wasatch County School District Superintendent, Terry Shoemaker defended the decision to alter the photos and said that the yearbook would not be re-printed. He did admit, though, that a more "consistent approach" should have been taken and that there was a clear dress code. He also stated that students were warned that pictures may be altered.

     Hey that's fine if you want to alter yearbook photos because the girls did not abide by the rules, but the yearbook staff would really need to alter all of the photos that did not adhere to the dress code. Superintendent Shoemaker did say, "We apologize in the sense we want to be more consistent with what we're trying to do." If all of the photos were doctored in the same fashion, I guarantee there wouldn't be a problem right now. Then again, why bother wearing any clothes at all when your taking a yearbook picture. They can apparently add any clothing to you after the fact. This is so ridiculous! They should just allow kids to be kids and let them dress however they want for their yearbook photo. If they want to be represented in that way, that is their decision. They will have to live with that photo many years later. Trust me, I wish someone could go back and Photoshop some of my high school pictures...But that's just me!