From the article describing her offense, the young lady is comparable to many magazines and television programs which she would likely see on a daily basis.
Interesting story. Since her website (actually, it’s a blog) was deleted, my curiousity got the best of me and I found a cached Google page of it. And here’s her blog profile.
She seems kind of like a silly girl, actually, but it’s her blog, created in her free time.
They have Krispey Kreme donuts in Australia? This country has a lot to answer for.
It just seems like she was having a bit of fun- I mean, it wasn’t as if she was posing nude for the pictures, or something. Although maybe part of the problem is that she was wearing the school uniform. Still, however, everything vital seems covered and it doesn’t seem that bad. I’d bet the school uniform will suffer a sudden rise in neckline, though.
I don’t want to say that I approve of the head’s decision, but I suspect the concern isn’t so much about the suggestive pose, as the fact that the suggestive pose is made in the school’s uniform. For a private school, a reputation for studiiousness associated with a easily recognized uniform is like any other trademark, in many ways. They don’t want it tarnished. Considering the girl in question had been doing much other modeling with no problem from the school, I doubt that the problem was really the suggestive pose.
Coming from a place with a school uniform culture, I can agree with this. We were expressly told that bad behaviour while in uniform would affect the school’s reputation and therefore our standing when we left school and had it on our resumes. I dated a boy from a Catholic school who was a prefect and was supposed to go around after school making sure no one was smoking downtown while in uniform. My mother, admittedly some years earlier, was told that she had been seen walking through shops while in uniform and that this would not do for a young lady from her school. I think the principals of any of the schools in my town would have hit the roof over photos like this - and they’re not even as exclusive as the school in question.
All a bit odd, in retrospect, but that was the culture - and Sydney, from what I saw while I lived there, and reading the Herald pretty much daily on-line these days, can be very gossipy about what goes on at private schools.