AIBU - Not allowing school to film my child?

You've got what you wanted and there will now be no photos or videos for any parent so your child doesn't miss out by not being in an activity for 5 minutes. So exactly what more do you want. Validation for you position?
We don't know the reasons for your position, but there are plenty of potential reasons that are perfectly valid, but we can't have any opinion without knowing, and why should we know. We don't know if you ABU unless we know why you hold this position.

There are benefits and drawbacks to filming activities and as part of activities.

You’re unreasonable wanting to be able to dictate exactly what happens. They’ve given an opt out, youve opted out. Opting out means missing out.

You have every right to not give permission for videos and photos.

You can't have it both ways though, either you give permission for media to be taken and accept that your kid needs to sit a few things out, or you allow them to be filmed. Other parents will want photos and videos.

It’s up to you if you don’t want your child to be filmed, but YABVU to complain that your child will have to sit out when filming is happening. This is not school, you have no reason to be difficult to wards the holiday club.

The holiday club is being unreasonable - they shouldn't be excluding children from activities because their parents don't want them photographed or filmed.

My son's school and holiday club both have very strict rules around photos and videos of the kids, mainly for safeguarding reasons (sometimes there are kids who have been relocated away from an abusive parent, and photos increase the risk of them being found, as some parents are clueless about privacy settings, etc).

To be fair, the OP has the right to make this call; the reasons aren’t important.

The scheme should be sensitive about it but ultimately he will have to sit out as like a PP I rather like seeing the photos.

I don't allow my child to be filmed either - there is no benefit to the child so its just a no. And that's before you get to safeguarding and Deepfakes.

Eta, its refreshing to hear that they just won't film, instead of pulling kids out.

Why would they need to video kids? My kids never got filmed at summer clubs. I wouldn't want that either, is it going on their insta? If enrolling is conditional on being filmed they should have made it clear before you paid for your child. If it's only 2 minutes of sitting out that's ok, surely they aren't filming any more than that?

Is there a particular reason you dont want photos?

I want to see photos and videos of my kids at summer scheme. If you dont then your dd sits out for the 5 min they are doing a video.

You aren’t being unreasonable at all. There are all sorts of reasons parents don’t want their child photographing and all are valid.

Can you suggest they take the pics they want to take but blur out your child or put a smiley over their face so they can’t be identified? That way they can get their pics and you can keep your child from being shown on photos.