Shirts “must be modest and not revealing or distracting,” the dress code states. O’Keefe’s mother, Stephanie Fabre, and stepmother, Taryn O’Keefe, said they planned to attend a school board meeting this week to call for changes to the dress code, which forbids girls to wear tops or shirts that do not cover “the entire shoulder” or from wearing shorts or skirts that are more than four inches above the knee. She said the school was offering refunds and “receiving feedback from parents/guardians/students on making this process better for next year.” “Bartram Trail High School’s previous procedure was to not include student pictures in the yearbook that they deemed in violation of the student code of conduct, so the digital alterations were a solution to make sure all students were included in the yearbook,” Ms. Augustine Record that a teacher who serves as the yearbook coordinator had made the edits. Johns County School District Student Code of Conduct or may be digitally adjusted.”Ĭhristina Langston, a district spokeswoman, told The St. School administrators and district officials did not respond to requests for comment on Saturday.īartram Trail, a public high school with about 2,500 students, says on its website that yearbook photos “must be consistent with the St. O’Keefe and parents who saw the yearbook. No pictures of male students, including one of the swim team in which the boys wore Speedo bathing suits, were digitally altered, according to Ms. O’Keefe said of the altered photos.Īt least 80 photos of female students were altered. “They need to recognize that it’s making girls feel ashamed of their bodies,” Ms.
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They said the altered photos were the latest in a series of crackdowns by administrators who have used an outdated dress code to police the way girls dress. Many students and parents are now demanding an apology. Other girls approached her and said the alterations made them feel sexualized and exposed. O’Keefe said she had been confused at first, then furious. Dozens of other students - all girls - had similar edits, many of them clumsy alterations that covered more of their chests. O’Keefe thumbed through the rest of the yearbook.
A black bar had been added to cover more of her chest, she said.
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