Caitlin Tiller teen mom banned from yearbook for photo with baby
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A North Carolina teen mom was banned from her high school yearbook because school officials felt the photo she took promoted teen pregnancy.

Wheatmore high school senior Caitlin Tiller is the teen mom to a 1-year-old boy named Leelin. For her high school yearbook photo Tiller the teen mom and the rest of her classmates were supposed to take a photo with a prop of their choosing. The prop was meant to represent a special achievement in their young lives or represent who they are.

Last year Caitlin Tiller became pregnant and gave birth to a son. For her yearbook photo, which is now banned, the teen mom thought it would be a nice idea to use her son as the prop for her picture.

"I wouldn't be the person I am today without him," Tiller said to Fox 8 News. "So I brought my son, thinking that he could be in the yearbook with me and two days before the book was due I find out he can't be in."

Tiller told Fox 8 that other students from her high school were allowed to bring whatever they liked to the photo shoot. The teen mom said one student even brought the family pet as a prop. School officials told the teen mom her photo was banned because they felt the image promoted teen pregnancy.

Caitlin Tiller does not feel her photo glamorizes teen pregnancy. While she loves her son and cannot image life without him she says being a teen mom is hard. She wanted her son in her yearbook photo as a sign of everything she has accomplished.

The 17-year-old mom works 30-hours a week at a part time job, takes care of her son and not only graduated high school but is attending college this fall. She says her now banned yearbook photo was meant to show responsibility and love.

"The love that I have for my son and how he helped me achieve my goal to help me graduate high school."

Fox 8 said that the high school would not elaborate on why the teen mom's photo was banned. All the school told the reporter was that "the yearbook should be all about the student, not an extension of the student's family."

Tiller's mother told Fox 8 the school should be proud of a student that took responsibility and kept going, working hard in order to graduate.

Fox 8 reports the teen mom decided not to submit another photo to the yearbook which is now being printed. Tiller said if the school was not proud of all she accomplished than she wanted nothing to do with the yearbook.

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