David,

I don't know if it's still the case, but way back in the Stone Age when I had my senior yearbook photos taken they were done by a professional photographer outside of school hours. If that's the case here then students couldn't have been "sent home" since they wouldn't have been in school in the first place.

That being said, the comment from Kristin pretty much hits the mark. If the school doesn't have a specific and clearly defined policy against the wearing of such garments, then what business is it of ANYONE to decide which female student's dress is appropriate or not?

This reminds me of when a friend in Thailand had photos taken for his driver's license. He had bad acne at the time, but the acne was edited out by someone along the line. He was nonplussed when he saw.

I'm not sure Slut Shaming is the appropriate term to use here. Unless you are just trying to generate hits (then it's perfect I guess).

Kids today. Next thing you know, they'll be showing their ankles.

Salt Lake Tribune headline: "Students say altered yearbook photos meant to shame them."

Slut-shaming typically refers to women being shamed for enjoying sex. But in the hands of Utah Mormons, it can mean women being shamed for enjoying wearing tops that reveal their shoulders.

Combining the nonsensical dictates of religion and high school administrators is about as bad as it gets.

Thrown in a homeowner's association board and you'd have an unholy trinity of bureaucratic micro-managing.

I worked at a Yr bk photo studio for years and the Catholic schools always made us photo shop out cleavage on the females. The yearbook pose photo that students choose is sole property of the school and they can alter them however they see fit. No to say that we didn't have plenty of those same students comeback tot he studio for private "HS" portrait sittings where parents INSISTED on allowing ample cleavage and skin to be in the photo that they would include in invitations, hang on walls (Hello framed 24" x 48" vanity portraits!). I am surprised that this is only now becoming an issue ...

@1,

Nothing indicates that this is a senior year photo.

@7,

This is a public school, not a religious school.

Just FYI, no high schooler would be wearing garments. They're only for those who have gone through a specific temple rite which is for adults. When I was last involved, church officials usually wanted young adults to wait to perform the rite until they are about to go on a mission or get married. That said, they do encourage everyone to dress as if they were wearing garments, and yes, Mormon girls do call girls in tank tops 'sluts', as if they knew what that meant.

Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and I was in high school (1970's), all the girls had to wear some kind of contraption that made it look like they were all wearing identical strapless evening gowns. Bare shoulders were *required.*

"Another girl wore the same skirt without reprimand, while Montoya was ordered to change into sweatpants emblazoned with the words, "I support Wasatch High dress code." "

I suppose the sweats with 'SLUT' printed on them were in the laundry.

I remember back in middle school, this one girl came to school wearing what were essentially booty-shorts. They made her put on her gym uniform shorts for the rest of the day. She was pissed.

Folks, I live in Utah and lemme tell ya... this is just the tip of a huge shitty iceberg of idiocy with these people.

@15 - I will never forget a friend of mine showing up to school in the 4th grade wearing a "Van Halen Kicks Ass" t-shirt. It wasn't until after first recess that he finally got sent home. It was the talk of the playground for a month, total scandal.

@9 - public school IS religious school in Utah. If you're not Mormon, you either go to Catholic or Lutheran school, or you adjust to the fact that you're never going to win any school office or prom anything because you don't have a wardhouse to solicit votes and popularity at. You find the few normal people in your school who don't go to Seminary and shun you because you're Gentile and those are your friends. It's better than it was - at least in Salt Lake - but woe to those non-Mormon kids living outside of the SLC area. For all their preaching, they're not very nice to non-Mormon kids.

And no @8, that was the Provo-Orem area - Utah County, home of BYwho and the Missionary Training Center, aka Happy Valley - aka Housewife Meth Heaven. This took place in Wasatch County, home of Heber City.

@18: Is there anything at all to recommend Utah? I mean, it just sounds like such a total shit sandwich of a place.

Skiing is great, hiking is great. Gorgeous national parks, national monuments, even state parks when the Boy Scouts and their leaders aren't out toppling goblin rocks or setting fire to the wilderness or leaving food out to attract bears then killing the bears.
In other words, a good place to visit, but if you're not Mormon, not a great place to live.
Although if you didn't have to attend school there, or have kids in school there, and didn't watch the local news, read the local papers, or have anything to do with politics there, and are fine with outrageous booze prices when dealing with the church-state owned liquor stores and/or drinking 3/2 beer, you might be OK to live there.

@12 - I believe it was called the "drape". It was optional in my high school, but most everyone got it done as one of their poses. In my mom's HS yearbook, every gal had the drape.

Hey, in addition to the skiing in the Wasatch Mtns, don't pass up southern Utah! The Moab area is worth a trip - Arches National Park is quite a treasure as are Zion National Park and Bryce Canyon on the western side. Great vacation spot if you love the outdoors. Maybe not so awesome to live there if you aren't LDS...

I'm the father of Kimberly Montoya. I attended wasatch high. growing up I played sports. I attended dances. and so on. until about 9th grade. Then I got my first lesson in Utah's small town ways politics and favoring. last name,bank account and religious believes are everything. even if your religious if it's not the one on every other block. your not much. Discriminating in this community has been going on generation after generation. my mother told me about how girls on her bus used to tell the bus driver she wasn't on the bus. he would pass her stop and have to walk miles. her brother my uncle Ronald. was teased because he was mentally challenged. He was slow and thay didn't wear the right clothes. and the family didn't attended church every Sunday. my dad was discriminated against because he was darker and had the last name Montoya. not to mention his religious believes. my older brother got the same as did I. Now my daughter and son are getting the same. It hasn't changed for the better as a matter fact it's getting worse. When bishop owns the power company. And you have to ask the Bishop for help to pay the power. and if you know the right people or cops you can do anything you want and its ok. Or sick them on others that are not part of the inner circles of the community. life can be hell. Well my daughter has a chance to change all that not just for the small town and county or state but possibly everywhere. So I'm filing a lawsuit not for money but for change. My daughter doesn't want to sue. she's scarred of feeling repercussions of the community shunning us and running us completely out of town.