Redallnite
12-15-01, 10:22PM
From an old woman's view Girls just wanna have fun
A co-educational boarding school has been criticized for producing a glossy calendar showing its pupils in provocative poses, newspapers reported Saturday.
The 12 pictures in the fund-raising calendar include one of a 16-year-old girl with her arms crossed over her topless cleavage.
Another shows a teen-age girl from Sexey's School in Somerset, west England, lying back seductively in a sleeveless black dress, her finger pressed to her lips.
Chris Hollis, regional director of child protection group Childline told the Daily Telegraph, "It is ill-considered and gives out mixed messages. The photographs are provocative and seductive, to put it mildly.
"Our concerns would be it is presenting individual children in the photograph and young people as a whole as sex objects."
The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children said it was inappropriate for a school to publish such material.
The 400-pupil state secondary school published 500 copies of the calendar, entitled "Sexey's Hot Twelve," and most were bought immediately for five pounds ($7.25) each after going on sale Monday, the paper said.
The school's head of marketing, Jackie Fairhurst, told the paper: "We have had no complaints about the content of the calendar."
Somerset County Council said: "The education authority is fully supportive of schools marketing themselves and exploring ways of raising money. But we do not consider that this is an appropriate way of doing so," it was quoted as saying.
:rolleyes:
A co-educational boarding school has been criticized for producing a glossy calendar showing its pupils in provocative poses, newspapers reported Saturday.
The 12 pictures in the fund-raising calendar include one of a 16-year-old girl with her arms crossed over her topless cleavage.
Another shows a teen-age girl from Sexey's School in Somerset, west England, lying back seductively in a sleeveless black dress, her finger pressed to her lips.
Chris Hollis, regional director of child protection group Childline told the Daily Telegraph, "It is ill-considered and gives out mixed messages. The photographs are provocative and seductive, to put it mildly.
"Our concerns would be it is presenting individual children in the photograph and young people as a whole as sex objects."
The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children said it was inappropriate for a school to publish such material.
The 400-pupil state secondary school published 500 copies of the calendar, entitled "Sexey's Hot Twelve," and most were bought immediately for five pounds ($7.25) each after going on sale Monday, the paper said.
The school's head of marketing, Jackie Fairhurst, told the paper: "We have had no complaints about the content of the calendar."
Somerset County Council said: "The education authority is fully supportive of schools marketing themselves and exploring ways of raising money. But we do not consider that this is an appropriate way of doing so," it was quoted as saying.
:rolleyes: