beth83:
I sincerely doubt her school dress code would allow her to come to school attired as she is in the picture. As far as cheerleaders are concerned, the ones in my district would also not be allowed to show a bare midriff like she is showing. Since far too many parents seem to have abdicated the responsibility of teaching their children about appropriate time and place to do things, wear things, or say things, unfortunately that job has fallen on the schools. Sometime down the road, this young lady may wish to have a responsible job with a responsible company. If she shows up for the interview like that, she's not going to get hired at most places, and not too many places will allow her to wear such an outfit on the job, unless her goal is to work in a gentlemen's club or similar establishment.
IMHO it's not the function of the public school system to become a 'surrogate parent' to children, they way that it did so in the old Soviet Union. Currently, public schools have been provided with neither the authority nor the resources to resolve deep-seated social problems, yet many people--especially state legislators and government bureaucrats--claim that dealing with overarching societal defects is basically the sole responsibility of public schools.
Since dealing with this critical social crisis is a complex, expensive and difficult challenge, politicians don't want the government in general (at any level) to have to do so, hence they describe the dysfunctionality within the urban underclass as exclusively 'an educational issue': "If only we had better public schools, we wouldn't have most of these problems." AFAIC struggling school districts are more the victims of societal collapse than the causes of it, because students are frequently sent to school lacking self-discipline, decent manners, respect for authority and especially educational efficacy (the concept that economic and personal success is directly related to one's education level).
While I believe that the young lady's photograph is inappropriate for a formal yearbook picture, I'd opine that its extreme informality doesn't necessarily mean she couldn't dress appropriately for a job interview... --C.K.