Controversy over poster at Gilbert High School library Arizona News Controversy over poster at Gilbert High School... A poster at a Gilbert High School is raising some eyebrows about male and female stereotypes. It sends a message that if girls dress pretty, boys will not be able to concentrate and get good grades. 
 
 - A poster at a Gilbert High School is raising some eyebrows about male and female stereotypes. It sends a message that if girls dress pretty, boys will not be able to concentrate and get good grades. 
 
 Staff at Desert Ridge High School say the poster was printed at the school and the librarian put it up a few days ago. They acknowledged after speaking with the librarian that it was a poor judgement call. 
 
 
 
 The school has removed the poster, but some wonder why it was put up in the first place. 
 
 FOX 10's Kristy Siefkin talked with parents and school leaders and has this report. ||||| Officials removed a controversial poster from the Desert Ridge High School library in Mesa, Arizona, Thursday after some students took offense at its message that appears to be a humorous attempt to highlight the school’s dress code. 
 
 “I don’t get offended easily, but this definitely crossed the line for me,” senior Alissa Adams, 18, told ABC News. 
 
 The poster, which had a photo and cartoons attached, claimed that girls who came to school “looking pretty cute” made boys see them as “meat, and it’s distracting.” It went on to say that boys would “make lousy grades” as a result, but the girls “end up with one of them anyways because he thought you looked HOT!” 
 
 It suggested that the distractions posed by a girl left a boy “underemployed because he learned nothing in school,” leaving the girl to support him. 
 
 When Adams first saw the poster a couple days ago, she took a pen and wrote on the bottom, “So it’s the girls fault, right? #feminism,” she said. 
 
 Adams said she approached the librarian who put up the poster, but she declined to remove it, saying that Adams was the only person who took offense. Later that day, she said, another student alerted the principal, who directed the librarian to remove it. 
 
 This in up in my school & my librarian claims I'm the only one offended by it?? SERIOUSLY? #DRHSfeminism #Feminism pic.twitter.com/LIj6JfK1U1 — Alissa Adams (@Teen_Girl4Jesus) April 27, 2016 
 
 “Hanging of the poster was inappropriate and very poor judgment on behalf of the librarian,” school spokeswoman Irene Mahoney Paige said in a statement. “It is not reflective of the spirit and community of Desert Ridge High School or the Gilbert Public Schools District.” 
 
 School officials said they had no idea who created the poster, only that the librarian put it up after she found it lying around. The school district declined to make the librarian available for comment. 
 
 Even after it was removed, Adams and other students voiced concern about the message. 
 
 “They shouldn’t have compared boys to animals and girls as meat,” Adams said. “They could’ve done it better.” ||||| MESA, AZ - A controversial cartoon posted in the library of Desert Ridge High School moved several seniors to take action to get it removed. 
 
 The poster is an attempt to be more relatable to students using a bit of humor to send a message about the importance of the school dress code which includes rules about the length of shorts of skirts, the width of shirt straps and no midriffs or revealing tops. 
 
 With captions like ‘You come to school looking cute’ and ‘What the boys see is meat,’ the gist of the cartoon is that when girls dress too revealing, boys can't focus, flunk out and girls end up supporting unsuccessful men as adults. 
 
 Senior Alissa Adams took offense to the cartoon right away. 
 
 "We have girls with self-image issues and this sign definitely did not help. Guys thinking only that they are thought of as animals and that they are not seen higher than that when we have some of the top students in the state," said Adams. 
 
 She says she wrote the message underneath the cartoons that read ‘It's the girl's fault right? #feminism’ and was brushed off by the librarian when she asked the poster be taken down. 
 
 “She actually folded over the section I wrote and stapled it down," said Adams. 
 
 She says by the end of the day, most of her class was outraged and another student went to administrators to express their distaste. 
 
 “I think they were trying to be funny but they just went about it all wrong,” Adams said. 
 
 A spokesperson for Desert Ridge says the sign was taken down as soon as administrators were alerted to the concern. They said it was poor judgment to hang it and the principal has spoken to the librarian though no one knows who actually made the poster. 
 
 The school says it is not reflective of the spirit and community of Desert Ridge High School and that has been conveyed to the student council as well. 
 
 Adams says while the sign was upsetting, she’s very encouraged by the swift action of administrators.
– An Arizona high school had to apologize this week for what some say was an alarmingly sexist poster hung in the school library, ABC News reports. The poster, illustrated with cartoons, states girls who dress "pretty cute" will only be seen as "meat" by boys, who will be distracted and get bad grades. Girls will end up with these dumb boys anyway because "he thought you looked HOT" but will have to support them because they won't be able to get a job. “I don’t get offended easily, but this definitely crossed the line for me,” senior Alissa Adams says. She complained to the librarian who put the poster up but was ignored. Adams tells KNXV that by the end of the day, most of her class was angry about the poster. It was taken down Thursday after another student complained to the principal. “Hanging of the poster was inappropriate and very poor judgment on behalf of the librarian,” ABC quotes a Desert Ridge High School spokesperson as saying. “I think they were trying to be funny but they just went about it all wrong,” Adams tells KNXV. The poster was made at the school, KSAZ reports. But the school claims it doesn't know who made it, and the librarian just "found it lying around."