[update]Should this picture be banned?

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A Colorado teenager whose yearbook picture was rejected for being too revealing is vowing to fight the ban with her high school’s administration, but the editors of the yearbook insist it was their decision alone on the photo.
The five student editors of the Durango High School yearbook in Durango, Col., told the Durango Herald they were the ones who made the call not to publish a picture of senior Sydney Spies posing in a short yellow skirt midriff and shoulder-exposing black shawl as her senior portrait.

“We are an award-winning yearbook. We don’t want to diminish the quality with something that can be seen as unprofessional,” student Brian Jaramillo told the paper on Thursday.

Spies was joined by her mother, Miki Spies, and a handful of fellow Durango High students and alumni in a protest outside the school Wednesday after, she said, administrators informed her the photo would not be permitted because it violated dress code.
“I feel like they aren’t allowing me to have my freedom of expression,” Spies told the Herald. ”I think the administration is wrong in this situation, and I don’t want this to happen to other people.”
The five editors, who said their decision was unanimous, said Spies’ blame was misplaced, in both targeting the administration, and believing that it was a dress code issue.

They also offered her an opportunity to include the photo in the yearbook, just not as her senior photo.
“If she (Spies) chooses to, the picture will run as her senior ad, not her senior portrait,” Trujillo said.
Despite the clarification from her peers into how and why the decision was made, a meeting Spies initiated between herself, her mother, and the school’s principal, Diane Lashinsky, was held today as planned.

“The editors all turned their backs on me and changed their minds,” she told the Herald. “I really do feel like they were intimidated by the principal.”

Neither Spies nor the school responded to ABCNews.com‘s requests for comments today on the meeting’s outcome.
The Durango School District, which oversees the high school, issued the following statement to ABCNews.com
“The editors of Durango High School’s yearbook informed a senior student in December that her photo in question would not be included as a senior portrait in the yearbook and asked her to submit a replacement. Durango School District 9-R’s administration supports this decision.”

Prior to today’s meeting, the Spies family told local media they planned to meet with a civil lawyer in Denver to review their daughter’s case.

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Woman looks like a hooker. Those who are supporting her are most likely perverts or people she is forcing to support her. I like to know how school officials even allowed her to take the pic in the first place.
 
DS, I believe you mean that the little girl looks like a hooker, because that is what she is, and a hooker is exactly what she looks like. If this were a woman, then she'd still look like a hooker, but as she'd be a woman, that would be her right..

Anyway, there is a time and a place for everything and the school made the right call on this one.
 
No offense but she looks like a total cheap pornstar. Atleast take care of your dressing.
 
That is just not right and especially for a yearbook. I agree with the officials on this one to be honest. Looks more like something you would see on a porn magazine or an advert for dating, not something you would see in a yearbook.
 
here is an update:

The Colorado teenager who made national headlines when her racy senior pictured was rejected by the editors of her school yearbook has been the victim of bullying and discrimination and will continue to fight after the school rejected a third photo and used her school ID photo instead, her mother says.
Miki Spies, the mother of Durango High School senior Sydney Spies, told Westword magazine that she and Sydney's father plan to file a complaint with the Durango, Colo., school board and superintendent in the hope that they "acknowledge that there's been a lot of mishandling of this situation."

"Sydney feels very bullied, by the entire school, basically," Spies, 44, told Westword. "The school has been awful and the kids have been awful. She's received very little support in any way from anybody. There's been a ton of cyber-bullying, where people can say whatever they want without looking the person in the eyes. It's been extremely hurtful for our entire family."

Spies, 18, was notified last month by administrators at Durango High that a photo she submitted of herself posing in a short yellow skirt midriff and shoulder-exposing black shawl would not be allowed to be used as her senior portrait.

Spies fought back, holding a protest with her mother and other students outside the school and meeting with administrators whom, she said, banned her photo because it violated dress code.
While Spies placed the blame on school administrators, the yearbook's five student editors insisted it was their decision alone on the photo.
"We are an award-winning yearbook. We don't want to diminish the quality with something that can be seen as unprofessional," student Brian Jaramillo told the Durango Herald last month.

Spies' appeal, including the threat of a lawsuit and surrounding media coverage, did not sway the school so she submitted a second photo, this one of her posing in a strapless black dress, according to the Westword.
When that photo was rejected, also for violating dress code, the Spies family says, she submitted a third, "model-type photo" that was rejected as well, this time because she missed the deadline, according to Spies.

"The yearbook adviser and editors have decided to use my school ID picture as my senior photo. Since I went to NY, then had the flu they said I was too late to submit another Sr. picture," she wrote on her Facebook page. "They ALSO decided that I couldn't use the 'controversial' picture in my ad anymore that I had already paid for, so I requested my money back. I also dropped my yearbook class because its become a hostile environment. What a lovely Sr. year this has turned out to be…"
The yearbook's editors had originally offered their fellow student the opportunity to include the original photo in one of the ad pages in the back of the yearbook, just not as her senior photo.
Miki Spies also commented on the situation on her own Facebook page.

"This whole yearbook photo has me thinking again. A lot of people are questioning my parenting skills. My kids tell me everything and I try to guide them as best as I can. But in the end I allow them to make their own decisions resulting in their own successes or failures," she wrote. "I don't see what resulted with all of this as a failure at all. Sydney has had the world see her photo. In my opinion the fact …that she would love to be a famous model someday shows that she made a pretty interesting decision! No matter how all of this turns out my daughter made her own choice and is ready to make her own way."
Neither Spies nor the school responded to requests for comment placed today by ABCNews.com.

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at this point, the parents and this kid are complete idiots. Or there out for national attention which there getting.
 
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