Sydney Spies, 18, girl too sexy for Durango High School yearbook
Updated: 07 Jan 2012
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Banned: Sydney says her school refused to print this photo because of her attire
Protest: Senior Sydney Spies, center, and her mother, Miki Spies,right, protest the elimination of Sydney Spies senior portrait from the school's yearbook with graduate Alayna Woomer, left, at Durango High School
Angry: Sydney Spies, 18, pictured here on her public Facebook page, says the school is stifling her right to express herself
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.
Sydney and her mother Miki, who joined her in the protest outside the school on Wednesday, argue that until the school creates a formal policy about yearbook photos, it cannot reject hers.
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.
Mrs Spies told the Herald: 'The yearbook adviser is saying she can’t use the picture; so the students are left with no voice in it.' The law clearly states that it is the student’s right to decide.'
The mother and daughter are working with a civil lawyer in Denver to review the case, Mrs Spies said.
Adam Goldstein, attorney advocate for the Student Press Law Center, said Spies’ allegations against the school’s administration may be valid as Colorado state law states that students have the right to exercise freedom of speech and press.
SOURCE: Daily Mail
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.
Sydney and her mother Miki, who joined her in the protest outside the school on Wednesday, argue that until the school creates a formal policy about yearbook photos, it cannot reject hers.
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.
Mrs Spies told the Herald: 'The yearbook adviser is saying she can’t use the picture; so the students are left with no voice in it.' The law clearly states that it is the student’s right to decide.'
The mother and daughter are working with a civil lawyer in Denver to review the case, Mrs Spies said.
Adam Goldstein, attorney advocate for the Student Press Law Center, said Spies’ allegations against the school’s administration may be valid as Colorado state law states that students have the right to exercise freedom of speech and press.
SOURCE: Daily Mail
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ningbostranger Commented on 17 Feb 2012
Imagine what she is going to say at her 25th high school reunion. My mother made me do it!
NetDomains Commented on 10 Jan 2012
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