Sickles High School in Trouble for Crotch Shot Photo
Another Sickles’ goof or goof-up?
When I first heard about the bare vagina on display in the pages of Sickles High School’s 2009 yearbook, I laughed out loud.
One of those deep belly laughs that last for five minutes. My tongue hangs out. I grab my sides. The works. I could just picture the yearbook advisor catching shit. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. Oh yes. Another grand example of a Tampa teacher’s piss-poor judgment.
Funny stuff.
Suddenly, I stopped laughing.
A sixteen year-old had posed for a club picture without underwear and her hoo-ha was on display for the world to see. That’s what I’d been told. Who in their right mind would greenlight such a spread? Why would someone in the district support distributing the yearbook and suggest the Sickles junior “laugh it off?”
A few years ago, someone spotted a kid with the word “Fuck” on his shirt in a Sickles yearbook. Administrators went apeshit and demanded final say over all future yearbook editions.
Well, I thought, this changes things. What was going on at my old school?
A few friends offered to email me a scanned picture of the aforementioned crotch shot.
I declined because, you know, child porn is gross. And illegal.
Like any good blogger, I drove over to Sickles High School today to see the picture for myself.
I hadn’t been back to Sickles since leaving Tampa for Colorado almost two years ago. I swore I’d never go back, but, what can I say? Nothing piques the public interest like pussy and I wanted to check it out.
I opened the yearbook to page 219 and found the Pottery Club photo. I stared. I squinted. I held the book at arm’s length and then brought it to a few inches from my eyes. I made sure all the lights were on.
Then I looked around.
“That’s it?” I asked.
I hadn’t been that let down since John took a bullet for Yoko.
So I started laughing again. Tampa Bay’s 10 latched on to a story that wasn’t even really a story. Talk about a news organization desperate for viewers. Looking at the picture online, you will probably say to yourself, “Self, this isn’t a good scan because I can’t see a thing.”
Oh no, the scan is fine. You really can’t see a thing.
Why didn’t the girl tell everyone she *was* wearing underwear and let it go at that? Why didn’t she and her mom ignore the hype or handle it? Suddenly, I stopped laughing.
This picture isn’t a big deal. But the girl’s mother is making it a big deal. She’s exploiting the issue and her little girl, by demanding attention and suggesting that Sickles recall all yearbooks and re-distribute them without the picture.
This woman, whose daughter went to school in a short skirt without underwear because she didn’t want to be photographed with pantylines, is demanding a solution from the school system that could cost thousands of dollars. Taxpayer dollars. Your dollars. My dollars.
All Mom really had to do is this – tell her embarrassed teenager that our actions have consequences. Encourage personal responsibility. And maybe teach this little Britney Spears-wanna-be how to sit with her legs *closed.*
Instead, she’s hiring an attorney.
Oh yes. Another grand example of a bad parent’s piss-poor judgment.
Only this time, it ain’t so funny.
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Pottery club? Teenage vadge roaming free?
Figures.
My God, people, has Brit-brit taught us nothing?!?
This is all the mother’s doing. The daughter should have known better than to go to school minus underwear. She says she didn’t want to be photographed with panty lines but who takes photos of people’s asses for the yearboook? She should have known better and the mother needs to calm down.
You got it almost right when you said ‘encourage personal responsibility’. Better yet, require personal responsibility of your children and inform them that we must all live with our decisions. Americans are losing the concept of personal responsibility and as a result, instances of frivolous lawsuits has skyrocketed.
Seems the family has been hit hard by the recession and needed a little money to buy panties for their 16 year old daughter and what better way to get some is to have your child’s hooha hanging out to breeze and then call the lawyers for a payoff maybe?!?!?
give me a break!!! Lesson learned. Cross your legs like a real lady does!!!!
Let’s see . . .
1) It’s picture day.
2) She wears a short dress without panties.
3) She sits on the front row for the picture.
4) She doesn’t cross her legs.
If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, & quacks like a duck, it’s a “show your hoo hoo on purpose” duck. Blame the poor judgement of a 16 year old.
Oh, puh-leeze. First things first, your John y Yoko reference made me cringe. Can’t be making light of that, I say. Secondly, are you really suprised that some *average* citizen is going to milk the incident for all it’s worth? “Dollar signs $$$$, I see $$$$$ signs…” I’m so sick of people acting so offended over non-existant calamities when there are legitimate ones to be had. Remember when the Latino “community” was so disgruntled by the Taco Bell Chihuahua? There are many more, I just can’t think of them right now i.e. no offense to the Latino’s in the crowd.
Please, there are people in this world who believe that what the mass media feeds them is Truth and if they are reporting it then we should take it seriously. Get a Life. Grow a pair. Recognize that a)you cannot guage your reaction by what the mass media reports b)learn not to be dominated by the lust for celebrity or money c)mistakes happen everyday.
By the way, I did not look at the pic, but I will take your word for it. Puh-leeze people, get a life.
where can i see an unedited picture of this???
I heard the principal of the school threatened to suspend anyone who talked about this.
You can see the picture here:
http://itryporn.blogspot.com/?zx=88a6cff89e943dbf
And indeed, there´s nothing to see. Some people do random things to get there 15 minutes. You can see the mum is loving it. Just exploiting her daughter, she should be sued.
you’re right, just a mom taking a page from sarah palin’s playbook and exploiting her kid for attention and profit