Students outraged over high-school yearbook's photoshopping for modesty

Students outraged over high-school yearbook's photoshopping for modesty

Students at a Utah high school are outraged after administrators altered yearbook photos of some female students so that they showed less skin.

Salt Lake City's Fox 13 News reports that the edits to the photos in Wasatch High School's yearbook appeared to be done inconsistently and even randomly. "In one case, two different girls were wearing nearly identical tops: One photo was altered to add sleeves and the other was not," the station reports.

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Jordan Valinsky is the lead writer for Speed Reads. Before joining The Week, he wrote for New York Observer's tech blog, Betabeat, and tracked the intersection between popular culture and the internet for The Daily Dot. He graduated with a degree in online journalism from Ohio University.