Pregnant Teens' Yearbook Photos Showing Baby Bumps Banned At Michigan's White Cloud High School

[The Straight Story]

Pregnant Teens' Yearbook Photos Showing Baby Bumps Banned At Michigan's White Cloud High School

Two pregnant students in a small Michigan town probably wouldn't need a yearbook photo to remember such a significant moment in their lives. But administrators at White Cloud High School aren't giving junior Deonna Harris and senior Kimberly Haney that chance.

The two girls were not allowed to use yearbook pictures that show their pregnant bellies, according to WOOD TV 8, and they believe they are being discriminated against by school officials.

Harris told WOOD TV 8 that she was pulled out of class on Tuesday by a yearbook staff member, who relayed a message from the yearbook teacher: Harris would have to re-take her photo, because she was visibly pregnant in her current portrait, which shows Harris and a few friends in a truck outside school.

"It's not like I was holding my belly. I wasn't promoting it in any way. It's just a full body picture," Harris told the local news station.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/16/pregnant-teens-yearbook-photo-white-cloud-kimberly-haney-deonna-harris_n_3285722.html

[GeorgeGist]

1. Sue baby, sue.

Ignorant hateful phucks.

[MineralMan]

2. More school administration morons.

They will lose the case if the girls sue, and it will cost the people in that town money to pay the judgment.

What's next? No ugly kids' photos in the yearbook? No openly GLBT kids? Welcome to Abercrombie & Fitch High School, students.

[Initech]

3. Can we please eliminate the phrase "baby bump" from our vocabulary?

But even still - it was wrong for the school to do this. I hope they sue.

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. The superintendent realizes there's "no difference," but "doesn't want the parents to complain..."

Who's damned yearbook is it anyway?