A high school in Florida will refund the cost of its yearbooks after a member of staff digitally altered images of dozens of female students to hide their chests and shoulders. The decision by Bartram Trail high school to censor 80 photographs, many with crude digital editing, angered parents and students. “They need to recognize that it’s making girls feel ashamed of their bodies,” she told the New York Times. In some photographs, square blocks of garments the girls were wearing were copied and pasted haphazardly to cover shoulders or chests. They said their daughter had collected about 5,000 signatures seeking the change, a petition sparked by a crackdown in March in which 31 female students were disciplined.

Source: The Guardian May 24, 2021 18:11 UTC