High school is a tough time. You’re adjusting to life with real responsibilities and also trying to have as little awkwardness as possible. Oh and also sometimes you forget to wear panties during yearbook photos so your cooch ends up showing for all the world to see.

NOTE: Not the photo in question. this is just what a life of early vagina showings gets you.

Tampa, Florida – Page 219 of the brand new school yearbook is all the talk at Sickles High School in Citrus Park.

“There’s a picture of a girl in the club pages,” said senior Xander Morehouse.

The picture is of a student with, what some are saying, are her private parts showing.

And it is published in the school yearbook.

“When I saw it, I kind of flipped out. I was like, ‘Oh my God’, but I think that she’s probably like really horrified,” said sophomore Caitlin Darden.

10 Connects caught up with the 16-year-old in the photo – and her mother Jeanette. The young girl admits she didn’t wear underwear that day but says it was because she didn’t want her panty lines to show. She says she did not show herself like that on purpose, “Absolutely not. It is ridiculously embarrassing.”

“All of the administrators are trying to downplay it and saying I should really laugh it off and come back to school but I’ve been humiliated,” said the junior who will not return to school for the rest of the year.

Now while it’s pretty much against everything I stand for to say that we need to allow a young woman to keep her vagina hidden from public view, telling her she needs to just “laugh it off” is kind of fed. Having your cooch flopping around or whatever verb it is that vaginas do is pretty embarrassing. Especially if she were, um, less than groomed as she may be based upon reports of it “being a shadow.” Because if it is that fuzzy and afrolike, it shouldn’t be seen in public unless it has a pick in its hair and says lots of jive talking expressions.

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