Students at a high school in rural Nebraska are now allowed to pose with guns in their senior portraits.
The Broken Bow School Board voted unanimously, 6-0, Tuesday, October 21, 2014, to approve a measure allowing students to pose with their weapons.
“When we do senior portraits, we ask our students to consider an activity that they’re interested in, that they’re passionate about,” photographer Brian Baer said in an ABC report.
The decision to allow guns in the portraits was, at least in part, motivated by the popularity of hunting and other shooting sports in the Broken Bow area according to school superintendent Mark Sievering, the report said.
Before the school board vote, there was no policy governing guns in senior photos in Broken Bow.
The only rules for the portraits were that the photos had to be “tasteful” and had to be taken off campus because guns were still illegal at school.
About half of all school districts in Nebraska reportedly allowed such photos according to a report from the Omaha World-Herald.
