High school under fire after it secretly Photoshops yearbook pictures to make girls 'LESS sexy'

  • Wasatch High School in Utah altered the images of certain female students to show less skin without them knowing about it
  • Some girls have complained, and said they also feel upset because the photos weren't altered consistently
  • However, the school has defended the general decision to edit images for modesty

By Daily Mail Reporter

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A Utah high school has used Photoshop to censor its yearbook photos because it deemed some female students' pictures too sexy.

Wasatch High School is under fire after it altered the images of certain students to show less skin without them knowing about it.

When the students received the much anticipated yearbook, they were shocked to see they appear to be wearing a different outfit.

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A Utah high school has used Photoshop to censor its yearbook photos because it deemed some female students' pictures too sexy

A Utah high school has used Photoshop to censor its yearbook photos because it deemed some female students' pictures too sexy

Upset: Sophomore Kimberly Montoya said her shirt 'was a cream color, and the color of the cover-up was completely white. It looked like white-out on my skin'

Upset: Sophomore Kimberly Montoya said her shirt 'was a cream color, and the color of the cover-up was completely white. It looked like white-out on my skin'

Some have now complained, and said they also feel upset because the decisions whether to alter the photos or not were not made consistently.

'I feel like they put names in a hat and pick and choose who,' Sophomore Rachel Russel told KSTU-TV.

'There were plenty of girls (who) were wearing thicker tank tops and half of them got edited and half of them didn't.'

Russel's original picture showed her wearing a sleeveless top. But the version seen in the yearbook has black sleeves added on.

Sophomore Kimberly Montoya added: 'My shirt was a cream color, and the color of the cover-up was completely white. It looked like white-out on my skin.'

The apparently random editing process is what angered the girls the most.

In one case, according to the TV station, two different girls were wearing nearly identical tops but only one was altered to add sleeves while the other was printed as it was.

Tattoo: The school decided this student's tattoo was too provocative

Tattoo: The school decided this student's tattoo was too provocative

Sneaky: Wasatch High School, pictured, altered the images of certain students to show less skin without them knowing about it

Sneaky: Wasatch High School, pictured, altered the images of certain students to show less skin without them knowing about it

Students raised the issue with high school administrators, who said the yearbook couldn't be changed after printing.

Wasatch County School District Superintendent Terry E. Shoemaker later defended the general decision to edit images for modesty.

He claimed students know the dress code and there was a sign warning them that their pictures may be altered.

However, Shoemaker admits the school school have taken a more consistent approach.

'We only apologize in the sense that we want to be more consistent with what we're trying to do in that sense we can help kids better prepare for their future by knowing how to dress appropriately for things,' Shoemaker said.

The school district dress code's ban on 'extreme clothing' lists 'revealing shorts, skirts, dresses, tank shirts, halter or crop tops, spaghetti straps, etc.'

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