In Florida, United States, the Bartram Trail High School school altered their students’ photo albums to hide the cleavage of teenage girls.
It is a case that angered many parents of students at Bartram Trail High School, Florida, United States, on May 23, 2021. The administration decided to retouch the photographs of 80 teenage girls in the school album. The withdrawals are hidden and parents and their daughters are outraged by this totally conservative initiative which pushes teenagers “to be ashamed of their bodies.” Because, of course, no photographs of boys have been retouched. The New York Times reveals, in fact, that the photographs of male students in tight swimsuits have not received the slightest modification.
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If no member of the administration of this establishment has yet spoken on the subject, a spokesperson for the district explains that these alterations were made in order to include all the photographs in the school directory, because, some did not follow the St. John School District code of conduct, they said. According to the New York Times, Bartram Trail High School regularly reframes its female students on their clothing: shirts, for example, should not be “revealing or distracting” and skirts should not exceed ten centimeters above the knee. A sexist dress code that would have even encouraged some male students to come to school in skirts and dresses, in a spirit of solidarity with their female classmates.
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In France too, the clothing of young girls in school had also been the target of many debates. At the start of the 2020 school year, many students denounced the sexism of their school regulations. The Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer had spoken on the subject to RTL : “Everyone can understand that we come to school dressed in a Republican fashion.” Words that were absolutely not passed on to the students, launching in the wake of the movement # 14septembre on social networks which aims to denounce the sexist regulations of schools and the hypersexualization of adolescent girls in France.