This past week we had picture day at Kennedy High School and it was on track to be like every other picture day I had had before, except this would be my last. Not to say that picture day has always been some monumental event for me each year, but nevertheless I felt the need to make my last one special and create a memory that I could carry with me. Innocently enough, a friend and I decided we would buy a purple sweater, a turtleneck, to wear in our photos. We thought that this would be a simple way to remember our final photo day and how we were wrong.
As I said, this all began with only a friend and myself buying a sweater but we decided that it would be even better if more people wore it throughout the day. What ended up taking place was that somebody would take the sweater to the 1st hour pictures, pass it around, then during passing time someone that had 2nd hour pictures would do the same and so on and so forth. Easy enough, right? Well, apparently as the day wore on the beautiful picture people became more and more agitated with our "shenanigans" and told each person with the sweater to take it off. Eventually our administration became involved with the sweater censorship and it was all made out to be a much bigger ordeal that it really was.
Honestly, I wasn't surprised. I kind of figured that somebody wouldn't be too happy with our little game but they really didn't have much ground to stand on. We were wearing a SWEATER so it's not as if the clothing article was revealing in any way, shape or form. There was no provocative phrase or explicit message on the sweater. Perhaps the photo people felt disrespected because they are professionals and we were making fun of their position. But, even if that's the case, you can't come into a high school expecting total maturity. I don't care if it's expected because in reality teenagers are infamous their stunning lack of judgement and poor decision making skills.
This post is a message for all of the fun-killing adults out there who live their lives solely for the prospect of ruining any fun situation that the youth may be engaging in. Sometimes, you just need to let some things go. Where a spaghetti strap tube top that reveals six inches of cleavage and a pair of ass-less chaps may not be acceptable for a school picture, a purple sweater is. Maybe I'm not being clear... All that I am saying is that you, the fun-killers, need to learn is to pick your battles. Try to understand what is and is not a cause for panic and some overboard reaction. It seems as though this year the fun-killers won, but we will have to wait and see what happens next year, when senior pictures are added to the yearbook by submission...0.o
As I said, this all began with only a friend and myself buying a sweater but we decided that it would be even better if more people wore it throughout the day. What ended up taking place was that somebody would take the sweater to the 1st hour pictures, pass it around, then during passing time someone that had 2nd hour pictures would do the same and so on and so forth. Easy enough, right? Well, apparently as the day wore on the beautiful picture people became more and more agitated with our "shenanigans" and told each person with the sweater to take it off. Eventually our administration became involved with the sweater censorship and it was all made out to be a much bigger ordeal that it really was.
Honestly, I wasn't surprised. I kind of figured that somebody wouldn't be too happy with our little game but they really didn't have much ground to stand on. We were wearing a SWEATER so it's not as if the clothing article was revealing in any way, shape or form. There was no provocative phrase or explicit message on the sweater. Perhaps the photo people felt disrespected because they are professionals and we were making fun of their position. But, even if that's the case, you can't come into a high school expecting total maturity. I don't care if it's expected because in reality teenagers are infamous their stunning lack of judgement and poor decision making skills.
This post is a message for all of the fun-killing adults out there who live their lives solely for the prospect of ruining any fun situation that the youth may be engaging in. Sometimes, you just need to let some things go. Where a spaghetti strap tube top that reveals six inches of cleavage and a pair of ass-less chaps may not be acceptable for a school picture, a purple sweater is. Maybe I'm not being clear... All that I am saying is that you, the fun-killers, need to learn is to pick your battles. Try to understand what is and is not a cause for panic and some overboard reaction. It seems as though this year the fun-killers won, but we will have to wait and see what happens next year, when senior pictures are added to the yearbook by submission...0.o
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