Administrators at Wasatch High School in Heber City, Utah, have come under fire for digitally altering students’ pictures in the school yearbook—often adding virtual clothes to make students look more modest. Some girls who wore sleeveless tops for their pictures now have sleeves. Others found their necklines had been raised digitally.

School superintendent Terry Shoemaker said the changes were made to keep pictures in accordance with the school’s dress code, and that students were warned at the time that pictures might be altered.

“It was a large enough sign that other people clearly remember it, and certainly it should have gotten their attention that that was a possibility,” Shoemaker told the television station KSTU.

He did, however, apologize that the changes were a bit arbitrary: The photos of some students garbed in code-breaking tops made it into the yearbook unscathed.

“I feel (as if) they put names in a hat,” said sophomore Rachel Russell to KSTU. “There were plenty of girls (who) were wearing thicker tank tops and half of them got edited and half of them didn’t.” (ABC News)

Paul Asay has written for The Washington Post, Christianity Today, Beliefnet.com and The (Colorado Springs) Gazette. He writes about culture for PluggedIn and wrote the Batman book God on the Streets of Gotham (Tyndale). He recently collaborated with Jim Daly, president of Focus on the Family, on his book The Good Dad. He lives in Colorado Springs with wife, Wendy, and his two children. Follow him on Twitter.