STFU, Durango High School yearbook staff!

Meet Sydney Spies. She submitted the above picture to her high school's yearbook staff to be included as her official senior portrait. Fine, it's a little provocative, but, c'mon, it's 2012, not 1938, a notoriously non-provocative year in American history. So Spies is defying her school's dress code. She's a senior, and as anyone who has ever graduated from high school--sorry, drop-outs and GED recipients--can tell you, seniors have got carte blanche to do whatever the balls they want. If a senior feels like having lunch off campus, that senior has lunch off campus. If a senior doesn't like your face, that senior is fully within his or her rights to bully you mercilessly until you are driven to live-Tweet your own slow suicide by Advil overdose. And if a senior wants to look like a brazen hussy in her senior photo, then you darn well better publish said photo in your yearbook.

But Durango High's yearbook stuff ain't having it. No, they've rejected Spies' yearbook photo. But why, yearbook staff? Why?

“We are an award-winning yearbook. We don’t want to diminish the quality with something that can be seen as unprofessional,” student [and mouth-breathing lame-o] Brian Jaramillo told the paper on Thursday.

NERD ALERT!!!

Award-winning yearbook? What the hell kind of weird organization hands out awards to high school yearbooks? And if there are award-winning yearbooks, there must be a nomination process. And voting. Who has the time and the fortitude to comb through hundreds of thousands of high school yearbooks, nominating the "best" ones, presenting these nominations to an academy of yearbook aficionados to decide which is the very "best," and tallying the resulting votes? Nobody has the time to do this, therefore, your yearbook is not award-winning, Brian. Publish Sydney's picture and get back to your World of Warcraft campaign.

In summation: STFU, DURANGO HIGH SCHOOL YEARBOOK STAFF!