A teenager girl and her mother held a protest after the girl’s school yearbook photo was rejected for being too revealing.
Sydney Spies, 18, organised the protest after administrators at Durango High School told her the senior portrait she submitted would not be printed.
She claims she was told it was rejected because her attire in the photo violated the school’s dress code.
The high school in Durango, Colorado requires student to wear tops that ‘fully cover the chest, back, abdomen and sides of the student.’
But the photo Sydney handed in shows her wearing a short yellow shirt with nothing but a black shawl wrapped around her chest exposing her shoulders and midsection.
‘It’s a little different from everyone else’s picture,’ she told the Durango Herald.
But she said she chose it because it was a picture which best represented her personality.
‘I feel like they aren’t allowing me to have my freedom of expression,” she said, according to the Herald.
Sydeny and her mother Miki held a protest outside the school on Wednesday with friends to make their paint by waving handwritten signs.
DHS Principal Diane Lashinsky and assistant principal LeAnne Garcia declined requests for comment from the Herald about the issue.
Sydney said she has arranged a meeting with the principal on Friday morning to discuss the issue.
Sydney Spies, 18, organised the protest after administrators at Durango High School told her the senior portrait she submitted would not be printed.
She claims she was told it was rejected because her attire in the photo violated the school’s dress code.
The high school in Durango, Colorado requires student to wear tops that ‘fully cover the chest, back, abdomen and sides of the student.’
But the photo Sydney handed in shows her wearing a short yellow shirt with nothing but a black shawl wrapped around her chest exposing her shoulders and midsection.
‘It’s a little different from everyone else’s picture,’ she told the Durango Herald.
But she said she chose it because it was a picture which best represented her personality.
‘I feel like they aren’t allowing me to have my freedom of expression,” she said, according to the Herald.
Sydeny and her mother Miki held a protest outside the school on Wednesday with friends to make their paint by waving handwritten signs.
DHS Principal Diane Lashinsky and assistant principal LeAnne Garcia declined requests for comment from the Herald about the issue.
Sydney said she has arranged a meeting with the principal on Friday morning to discuss the issue.
