Mom should be ashamed for supporting teen daughter in year book pix drama!

So, I caught the tail end of a segment on the Today Show this morning where an 18 year old, Sydney Spies, was appearing with her mom and fussing about a picture not being included in her high school year book.  I did not see the pix, but it sounded quite trivial for a morning news show.  So when I got to work I pulled up the website to see if I could see what made this newsworthy.

This is what I found:



And this:



Now what parent would let their 18 year old take this picture or better still publish it in the year book.  Is this what you want your daughter to remembered by?  What message are you sending???  What parent allows their daughter to dress like that in high school?  College going to a party maybe, but high school?  Is this a sign of where society has gone?

Let me back up and address the article piece by piece.  Sydney claims to be an aspiring model.  Of what?  Someone needs to tell Sydney that most models are in the height of their career by the age of 18.  But more importantly, why is that young girls believe wanting to be a model is synonomous with "provacative pictures?"  Is this the message that we are sending our little girls?  That in order to be models or considered pretty that they have to be scantilly clad?  In the first picture she doesn't even have a shirt on, she has a shawl tied in the front. 

Sydney told the Today Show that she "honestly think (the pictures) describes who I am."  Who is that Sydney?  I wonder if her mom asked that question?  Mom says the picture is "artistic" and "stunning."  Really? 

Sydney even said that "It's illegal for the administration to get involved, so that's why we're even considering (legal action),"  Mom you should have made Sydney do more homework and less picture taking because it is clear that she has no clue as to what is illegal an quite frankly mom has no clue about what is inappropriate. 

It is truly saddening to see these type of potrayals of young women.  What are we teaching our children?