New York high school senior prevails in fight to pose with gun in yearbook photo

[The Legion]

An upstate New York school district has shot down a high school that said no to a senior’s yearbook photo because it shows her posing with a gun.

Rebekah Rorick submitted the picture for inclusion in the 2015 Broadalbin-Perth High School yearbook only to have it rejected by a faculty member on the yearbook committee due to the weapon.

 

“And I was like, ‘Why?’ And they are like, ‘Because there’s a gun in it,’ And I’m like, ‘But it’s a hunting rifle. I’m wearing camo. I have my dog with me,’” Rorick told WTEN-TV. “I was ready to cry. I didn’t know what I was going to do. The only thing I thought to do was address it.”

The photo shows a smiling Rebekah in a classic hunting pose. She is kneeling next to her dog as she holds a hunting rifle upright in her left hand.

Accompanied by her father, Rorick appeared before the school board Monday evening to appeal the rejection.

“We are in the foothills of the Adirondacks,” Michael Rorick told the school board, according to the Gloversville Leader Herald.

He and his daughter also pointed out that a senior’s photo in the 2012 yearbook showed him with a rifle.

After meeting behind closed doors, the school board ruled Rebekah’s photo appropriate for the yearbook.

“There wasn’t any reason not to (allow it),” president Robert Becker told the newspaper. He said he understood the school’s initial reaction to the photo, saying it was due to what he called “heightened sensitivity” to firearms in schools.

Superintendent Stephen Tomlinson told WTEN the photo does not violate the district’s policy against weapons.

“She is not holding the gun in a malicious manner,” he said. “She is not pointing it anywhere. It’s to me, in my opinion, a nice photograph of a young lady in the Adirondack region that enjoys hunting.”

 

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/12/20/new-york-high-school-senior-prevails-in-fight-to-pose-with-gun-in-yearbook/

[Omega]

I guess their not all idiots.

[hipower]

I guess their not all idiots.

I'm not so sure about that. It took family pressure, 2 meetings, and looks like a little press coverage to get them to come to an appropriate decision.

[bersaguy]

I'm not so sure about that. It took family pressure, 2 meetings, and looks like a little press coverage to get them to come to an appropriate decision.

 

Yep, but the most important part is she won the fight....................... :up: :up:

[hipower]

Yep, but the most important part is she won the fight....................... :up: :up:

 

That's true....and she's a little hottie to boot.   Wait...is that wrong to say?

[bersaguy]

That's true....and she's a little hottie to boot.   Wait...is that wrong to say?

Hmmmmm, and how old did you say you are?....................................... :hiding:

[hipower]

Hmmmmm, and how old did you say you are?....................................... :hiding:

 

Old, feeble, and borderline infirm. But not blind.

[bersaguy]

Old, feeble, and borderline infirm. But not blind.

 

Well, I got you beat...................I am old, feeble, and for the most part blind till I get new glasses or can find the ones I have so I can quit using these darn reading glasses.................. :rofl: :rofl:

Edited December 20, 2014 by bersaguy

[Hozzie]

I'm not so sure about that. It took family pressure, 2 meetings, and looks like a little press coverage to get them to come to an appropriate decision.

 

And you think it would have been different here?  I don't think so.  All it takes is one person in the right position to make it difficult and I can guarantee the same thing could happen here.   I would argue that the people up where this took place are as much, if not more, of outdoorsmen as anyone in TN.

Edited December 21, 2014 by Hozzie

[battleop]

"And I was like" "And they are like" "And I’m like"    

 

Some how I was expecting this to turn into a Sir Mix A Lot song...