My DS's school has always had a policy of allowing parents to take photos at events. They have the usual permission forms so that they know that people are happy for their children to have photos taken by the school, but also that they may appear in other family's photos in the background.
Today we have received a letter from the HT saying that it has come to her attention that people are putting pictures of their children at school events onto Facebook and that she wants parents to remove them immediately (unless they only involve their own child, no other people in the background). She has included a new revised form about permission to take photos which now includes a new bit about not using the pictures on social networking sites.
Do other schools have policies like this? How is it enforcable? For some people sites like Facebook are the only way they correspond and communicate with far away family and friends etc so are a very good way of sharing photos and news about their children. The school's own website has no privacy settings so absoultely anyone could access photos of the children on there so what's the diffrence??
What do other MNers think? I'm actually not sure where I stand on this....I personaly have no problem with my child being on other people's photos as these are school events and can often end up with photos in the local paper...so I don't really see what harm the same pictures on Facebook are doing....
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JellyBelly10 · 08/12/2010 16:46
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