The year book should be about the students, not their families. There is little difference between a student who poses with their child or one that poses with a sibling or a parent, uncle, aunt or grandparent.
In my opinion, the school was correct in rejecting the picture.
I tend to agree. If you agreed on this...why not have your dog in the picture, or some nephew?
Agreed. Being pro-life does not mean accepting/tolerating this “lifestyle choice.”
If they were supposed to be posed with something representing them and their “achievements” or something in which they take pride or find inspiration... then I do not think it was inappropriate to have the picture with the baby.
I am guessing this is in a different section than the “senior portraits”. Some of the students probably were posed in sports uniforms or some action photo of them participating in some type of activity.
Students were told to pose with something that is important or inspires them. She chose to pose with her kid. The school was wrong to say no. My son’s school is a lot better than this school. Senior pictures can be about whatever makes you, you. One classmate is in her cheer uniform, Logan got his pics taken at his church camp with a big cross by him. A classmate of his has a senior picture in her yearbook of her looking down the barrel of her dad’s AR 15. Another classmate had her pic taken in camo paint and a uniform crawling on the ground as she is enlisting after graduation. This is no different. Johnnie loves guns, Jen is defined by the military, Brennan loves to cheer, Logan loves God, this girl loves her child and is defined by her, no difference.
The instructions were to have the picture taken with "something that best represents them or an achievement." This young mother followed this instruction to a T. Having a child and still staying in school and graduating is truly a major achievement. Children require serious caregiving, and if she could be responsible enough to do that and still reach her academic goals, it's the most meaningful thing to her.
As you for your comment that it's no different from having your picture taken with "a sibling or a parent, uncle, aunt or grandparent" --- OK, what of it? What if a students had to carry out responsibilities toward a handicapped sibling, a hospitalized parent, a disabled grandparent? Family responsibility is honorable. And besides, the selection of how to do the picture was her choice.
It wasn't criminal, it wasn't fraudulent, it wasn't indecent. More power to her. Take the picture.