1st Submission
In another slow news day, major media outlets are reporting on the plight of a Colorado high school girl whose senior picture was deemed too racy for the yearbook.
After being told her picture was rejected for being inappropriate, she was allowed to submit a second picture which was also rejected. The girl and her mother have protested outside the school, made the rounds of local and national media, and threatened legal action because they insist the pictures are artistic and the girl’s way of expressing herself.
2nd, More Tasteful Submission
I expect her high school newspaper considered describing the story with the following headlines:
Yearbook Staff Name Senior Girl Honorary Vale-strip-torian
Senior Girl Elected ‘Most Likely to Disrobe’
Senior Challenges School’s Undress Code
Yearbook Under Pressure to Change Three R’s to Reading, Writing, and Erotica
Senior Stifles Laugh While Putting Artistic Spin on Excessive Skin
Ethics Teacher Impressed as Senior Boys Take Sudden Interest in Right to Artistic Expression
Local Parents: Students Should be Studying Rounded Figures, Not Studying Rounded Figures
Senior’s Mother Passionately Supports Daughter’s Wasting of School Resources Over Meaningless Fight
Mother Supports Daughter’s Appeal of Right to Reveal
Yearbook Staff Booed for Ban of Near Nude
The Good Greatsby 
Carl D'Agostino
January 13, 2012
I retired in 2006 after 33 yrs 11th grade American History. Think I’ll renew my teacher certificate and move to Colorado.
Hippie Cahier
January 13, 2012
Thirty years from now, she’s going to look at that picture and think, “That hairstyle is soooo embarrassing. What was I thinking?”
The Good Greatsby
January 14, 2012
She’ll be so embarrassed when her kids look at the picture and laugh at the dated hair and the out-of-style clothes she wasn’t wearing.
Invisible Mikey
January 13, 2012
I think you could just say “Girl Most Likely to” and stop there. However did these people get the idea that Yearbook photos could or should be artistic? They are the antithesis of art! It’s a tradition that must be upheld.
The Good Greatsby
January 14, 2012
You got one shot on Yearbook Day and you knew it was going to be terrible. It’s a demoralizing experience we all shared and I shudder to think of a generation that misses out by getting to choose its own artistic Yearbook snaps.
Rob Rubin
January 13, 2012
How about Senior Bares All Over Yearbook Flap.
She's a Maineiac
January 13, 2012
What’s the big deal? That is the exact same yearbook photo I had.
And really, she just looks like she suddenly had to go to the bathroom and was bravely trying to hold it in. She should be commended. Beauty is painful sometimes.
The Good Greatsby
January 14, 2012
It really does seem like art when I ponder what she was trying to express by pretending to have to go to the bathroom in both pictures.
pegoleg
January 15, 2012
She’s seeking a career as a model in the lucrative adult diaper industry.
joehoover
January 13, 2012
She says it represents who she is ie. outgoing . By that token I’d be interested to know what someone who describes themselves as slutty looks like
joehoover
January 13, 2012
Her mother maybe?
The Good Greatsby
January 14, 2012
We’ve witnessed the evolution of the word ‘outgoing’ to also be a synonym for ‘slutty.’
Glynis Sylvia
January 14, 2012
I think it’s not “outgoing”, but “OutPUTting”.
Todd Pack
January 14, 2012
I don’t want to name names, but it looks like SOMEBODY has daddy issues.
The Good Greatsby
January 14, 2012
I did notice the article didn’t include any comments from the father. I’m sure he’s reading the news along with the rest of us and wishing he hadn’t taken that job out of state.
thesinglecell
January 14, 2012
This girl clearly has goals. While her fellow seniors may be graduating with no future career in their sights, she obviously has plans on “making it” as an “actress.” Or possibly working in Silicone Valley. Or both.
pegoleg
January 15, 2012
Looks like she’s already been working with silicone.
ericanexpress
January 14, 2012
Oh Good Greatsby, what would be do without you? Excellent, as always.
lexy3587
January 14, 2012
I’m just… oh so casually… leaning against this brick wall. I’m really just being my natural, outgoing self. Naturally.
I can’t believe this is getting any kind of news coverage.
Laura
January 14, 2012
I honestly can’t tell whether she’s leaning against a brick wall or lying on a brick floor. Either way, she’s probably just exhausted from all the yearbook photo controversy.
susielindau
January 14, 2012
When the story first broke here in Colorado early in the week, I thought she was topless and there was a black bar across her chest! Then I was relieved… There are some crazy graduation photographers out here. My friend’s son had a photo shoot and only one picture was acceptable. I guess the guy directed him to open his shirt or take it off for most of the session!
The Good Greatsby
January 14, 2012
I wasn’t even aware that anyone got to take their own pictures for the yearbook. Seems like schools open the door for a lot of controversy when everyone is trying to push the bounds of what they can get into the yearbook.
Binky
January 14, 2012
She likely doesn’t have to worry because a Hollywood agent has probably already signed her up.
katecourysfarmhouse.com
January 14, 2012
Wow! What a great photo to hand out to all your boyfriends so that he can show it to his parents upon them asking….”Let me see the girl your going out with tonight Johnny”…..
Glynis Sylvia
January 14, 2012
Does the poor girl have Scoliosis? Seriously. Stand up !
The Good Greatsby
January 14, 2012
It would be sad if we’re judging her and it turns out she has a physical ailment that forces her to arch her back and stick her butt out all the time.
The Byronic Man
January 14, 2012
It’s the protesting that’s my favorite part. “What are you protesting? Starvation? War? Corruption?” “The yearbook won’t print a picture of my daughter looking like an ad for a strip club.”
The Good Greatsby
January 14, 2012
I’m sure it’s exciting as a parent when your child finally takes an interest in something, and you want to be supportive, but this seems like the wrong issue to take a stand.
Tori Nelson
January 14, 2012
Listen, I’m all for auditioning for Playboy or The Pink Pony or, hey, even 16 & Pregnant, just not in a yearbook. I especially like that her mom is high-fiving her whore-dom.
Ahmnodt Heare
January 14, 2012
Another headline could be “Senior Girl Raises More than Expectations”
It might have been rejected because they want to discourage pedophilia. (Even though she was 18 when the picture was taken.)
Imagine the “naughty school girl” fantasies men are having.
omawarisan
January 14, 2012
I foresee a trail of men in her wake saying things like high maintainance.
Ape No. 1
January 14, 2012
I presume the controversy is that neither outfit exhibited the school colors prominently enough. Now if she was wearing the school extra short blue hooker skirt with the official stupidly tight red skank boob tube all would have been fine.
Ape No. 1
January 14, 2012
… school sanctioned extra short blue ….
Thank you Apple spell check for correcting my spelling by just deleting the offending misspelt words 😦
qwinkly3
January 14, 2012
Thank you, Apple, for allowing the misspelled word “misspelt” to get through. Ape, you paid how much for this product?
Ape No. 1
January 14, 2012
Haha. Well spotted qwinkly3. The answer to your question is too much.
Ape No. 1
January 14, 2012
Though I think you will find that misspelt is actually correct.
Glynis Sylvia
January 14, 2012
Oops. Sorry. Lesson learned. I hate those “also correct” words. But seriously, how does a word like “spelt” come into existence? I suspect it’s one of those dumbing down to common mistakes things, like busses/buses and traveller/traveler.
Ape No. 1
January 15, 2012
To be fair misspelt is more common in the UK and Australia and misspelled in the US so I understand your view. If you would like to see what horrors could have been I thouroughly recommend having a look at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Spelling_Board
Perhaps Mr Greatsby could produce a post using the simplified spelling proposal.
HoaiPhai
January 26, 2012
Why does everyone forget that Canadians are on the Commonwealth Spelling Plan, too?
EllieAnn
January 14, 2012
So she wasn’t wearing a cheerleader outfit while in this pose–how very unartistic.
thelifeofjamie
January 14, 2012
I love that her mother thinks its appropriate too. What’s that I smell?…..ah yes, it’s a frivolous lawsuit…
Annie
January 14, 2012
If she really wants to be a model (which is what she said on the news) then she needs to figure out how to do a few other “looks”.
nevercontrary
January 14, 2012
I am surprised they didn’t have a naked sit in protest.
Lunar Euphoria
January 14, 2012
A lovely girl making the most of her assets. Seems an effective strategy for getting publicity.
qwinkly3
January 14, 2012
That second shot is not just against a wall, but she’s standing (if that’s a stance) in a corner ! She must have been very, very naughty.
Thomas Stazyk
January 14, 2012
I don’t often say this, but WTF?
Spectra
January 14, 2012
The original shot they were going to submit was an exact replica of Marilyn Monroes nude calendar shot on red velvet, but then her mother realized she’d get more publicity and a modeling contract (in those sex operators ads) if the girl squeezed into something less comfortable. Now, that’s a good mother !
StrangeLittleGirl Photography
January 15, 2012
“Senior Girl Confuses Playboy Magazine Entry Photos with Senior Pic Submission.” I heard Hef’s traveling to CO as he just found his 100th “girlfriend.”
flippingchannels
January 15, 2012
*sigh* Every time I think high school can’t get any more ridiculous someone raises their hand (or some other body part) and proves me wrong.
pattisj
January 15, 2012
Her “15 minutes of fame” may have doubled.
Dana
January 16, 2012
Whatever happened to the mandatory (and universally appalling) LifeTouch photos for the yearbook? I was forced to wear a dickie underneath my grad gown for the photo to give the appearance of a while collared shirt… this girl should have to suffer just as much as I did. 🙂
HoaiPhai
January 26, 2012
Brilliant list? But what’s wrong with the girl’s photos? Maybe it’s just me… my school’s yearbook had a centerfold.
HoaiPhai
January 26, 2012
That should read “Brilliant list!” (I was not being sarcastic)