Florida high school altered girls' yearbook photos it deemed immodest
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Controversy surrounds the digital alteration of photos in a northeast Florida high school's yearbook to cover up some skin exposed in the original photos, which school officials deemed inappropriate.
CBS Jacksonville affiliate WJAX reports 80 students – all female -- at Bartram Trail High School in St. Johns had their yearbook photos altered without their permission. Exposed shoulders and low necklines were covered up. Officials of the St. Johns County School District told the station yearbook photos must follow dress code guidelines and they deemed the 80 pictures inappropriate. The officials said the school's yearbook coordinator, a female teacher, made the decision.Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.