Brown haired white kids never in photos

I'm not very invested in this but I am genuinely curious - when do you think White Blondes have been discriminated against?

YABU. White with brown hair has to be the least discriminated-against demographic there is.

Is this a private school?

Kindly, I think that the chip on your shoulder that you mentioned is speaking here.

It’s a sad fact of life that pretty babies, children, teens and adults get photographed more / produce better photos than ordinary looking ones.
I don’t think it has anything to do with hair colour, unless whoever chose the photos for your prospectus was biased towards blondes. But I don’t think it’s a general thing.

Can't say I've ever noticed or felt the need to pay attention to that

I'm blonde I was always an angel in the school plays but my tiny sized brown haired girls was horrified when she was picked to be an elf in her school play 😂🤣😂

No I agree. It’s always the children with unique features who appear as the ‘chosen’ children for the school. They choose children of other races to show they’re diverse and the children with disabilities to show they’re inclusive. A boy in my son’s class has a large birth mark on his face and he’s the child that is the poster child each year for the class/school. My son is pretty ordinary (in terms of features and standing out appearance wise) so he never appears on the newsletters let alone the website etc.

@Disasterclass I was Mary because she didn't have any lines.
I didn't speak much back then 😂
(It was Carnival of the Animals so Mary was just watching the animals perform)

My sister has three blonde daughters. The eldest one, now 8 is losing her blondness and becoming much darker. My sister is really upset about it. I, who am brunette, challenged her on this but she couldn't really articulate why she felt like this. I do think blondeness is favoured in kids, especially girls.

The kids who get photographed in my children's (very mixed race) school are the ones who can behave for the photo shoots lol. So it's all a good mix of students used, just the ones who behave! You're sore over nothing. Who cares.

In my experience the confident, middle class kids get the main roles in the plays in primary- in DDs primary it tended to be 2 white kids, one with brown hair, one with red hair

#firstworldproblems

I was Mary one year. I have mousy brown hair.
In another play the character of "Dutch Mother" was played by a boy and when we did Joseph and his Technicolour Dreamcoat Joseph (plus about half of the brothers) and Pharaoh were played by girls.

My DD is in the photo that is used on the school website/ in comms. 5 kids:
2 Black
2 Asian (one with a headscarf)
1 White with light brown hair

I did notice that throughout my kids' nursery and primary school years, all nativity Marys had long blonde hair. All of them. I don't think it was deliberate, but I do think the teachers thought "hmm Mary = pick the most sweet and innocent looking girl" and that unconsciously means long blonde hair. To their credit, one year a girl with a prominent facial mark was chosen as Mary and I know they were making an effort to be more thoughtful and not exclude her. But she still had long blonde hair!

It's one of those things people don't realise they're doing IMO. When they try to be inclusive and diverse. people often try to include people they think of as minority or excluded. They don't think "just include everyone".

I just checked our school website and found the following numbers. Broken down it looks like a fair representation of our school. If anything brown hair kids are a little over represented.

African 7
Indigenous 14
Asian 13
Indian 9
Maori 2
Caucasian w brown hair 15
Caucasian w blonde hair 7
Caucasian w red hair 1

And btw both my children have mousy blonde hair. DS left before they posted pictures of children online.

When I produced a school prospectus I just looked for children doing something interesting/purposeful/fun
Their features/colouring didn't come into it

Yeah. Almost as ridiculous as thinking your demographic is deliberately excluded.

I've never noticed it's usually a mixture of all I'm sure they choose the most photogenic and natural in front of the camera. My DD went to a SEN school there was a few pictures of her on the website. They don't have a school prospectus. Because children have to be referred there by the department for education. We don't really have much say in what school they go to.

My DD's school website has children of all weights and hair colours, and I wouldn't say they seem to have been selected for being especially beautiful, just ordinary looking children doing interesting activities. There are a pair of SE Asian identical twins who are featured quite prominently but I can't really blame the school/photographer for that considering they are probably the only non-white children in a very white area and they are also adorable.

As for the two local private schools, one features all hair colours but they definitely try to get one of the very few non-white kids in most shots, and one has around 12 children per year so I'd say nearly all the children are on the website. That one is surprisingly diverse for the area actually.