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Too Sexy For My School of the Day: Controversy at Durango High School in Colorado, where student editors of the yearbook rejected a photo of senior Sydney Spies for being too sexy.

Students at Durango are allowed to pick their own photos and submit them for inclusion in the yearbook. Spies and her mother chose one that student editors deemed too provocative for the school’s annual book of record.

“We are an award-winning yearbook,” said editor Brian Jaramillio. “We don’t want to diminish the quality with something that can be seen as unprofessional.”

The Durango Herald originally reported that it was the administration’s call, but student editors have since come forward to take responsibility. “If she (Spies) chooses to, the picture will run as her senior ad, not her senior portrait,” said Tevan Trujillo, another editor.

Despite the students’ claim, Spies herself still feels the administration had a hand in the final decision. “The editors all turned their backs on me and changed their minds,” she says. “I really do feel like they were intimidated by the principal.”

Spies added that she feels her freedom of expression is being infringed upon. She and her mother were scheduled to meet with DHS principal Diane Lashinsky yesterday. 

[romenesko.]

These are exactly the kinds of civil liberties fights we need to be focusing on!

Wait, nevermind. The opposite.