My God this story about the class photograph is appalling!

[Needsomebloodyperspective]

Link here.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce5epgp2zdno

Parents given the option to have disabled children removed from their photograph.

Who on Gods green earth thought that was a good idea?!

@IdaGlossop I suppose in many circumstances it won’t be obvious why some children are in a photo and others aren’t, if more than one choice is given.

So the photographer was given one group of children to photograph and then other children were brought in to be photographed with the initial group. So that would explain the 2 versions.

The detailed requirements of the school would very likely not be discussed with Tempest but with the individual photographer.

Tempest have had the market for school photos for years, so they will be shitting themselves.

@crumblingschools you're right about differences between shots perhaps not being obvious. Whatever the sequence of events in this case, Tempest are in trouble as this has happened on their watch. What a nightmare for the PR person/team.

Then don't tell a child with very thick lenses in her glasses (which she can't see without) to take them off so she can be 'pretty' for her mummy

And in other news...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13252727/Photography-firm-deleted-disabled-children-class-picture-asked-girl-five-crucial-super-strength-glasses-mummy-like-photo-looking-pretty.html

And they don't let you reply...

How many more discriminatory incidents are going to come out?

It's outrageous.

If you read the BBC story, it says they actually brought the DC with additional needs into the same group to take pictures after^^ the others had first taken a picture, so it's clear it was a deliberate attempt to exclude them.

Shane they forgot that the link to purchase pictures would also go to the parents of DC with additional needs 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Well, they've made their groveling apology
Firm apologises after parents offered school photo with no complex-needs pupils (inews.co.uk)

But I don't think they need to have any concerns about being "committed to implementing meaningful changes to prevent such an occurrence in the future", as I think they've just had their Gerald Ratner moment, and won't be taking (m)any more school photographs.

Now is probably a really good time for enterprising photographers to set up a school photography service, as there's likely to (rightly) be a massive gap in the market now.

Like probably many parents of a child with additional needs, I don't even have the energy to read this full thread. It's not surprising and won't be an exception.

Yep- the schools don’t want ofsted to see how badly supported the disabled children are, and the effect that has on them and all the other children.

A school photo needs to be look a certain generic standard way,

No it doesn’t.

@Justrolledmyeyesoutloud your posting that…

We knew she wouldn't cope with the change of schedule

…then-
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You will be pleased to hear she stayed all day and coped with it

demonstrates nicely how much teachers often think they ‘know’ about disabled pupils, and how much they actually know.

Also demonstrates how she had an option to go home if not. Choices!

Really not the point (and anyway you always have a choice to not send your kid to school or collect them early- it’s a school not a prison camp).

It absolutely is the point.
This child was violent and aggressive when triggered and a change in routine was a huge trigger for her.
As l said before, her care plan said to avoid any triggers where possible.
Hmm school isn't really optional is it?!

Yep, it is- as everyone knows. Home education is legal.

What isn’t legal is a school not providing the education they are contracted to provide- they can’t just decide not to have disabled students when they think they will be inconvenient.

Editing disabled children out of photos at school is just a solid example of the general attitude in society that disabled people are disposable.

The point of my post was that schools claim to know xyz (like you knew she wouldn’t cope), but actually they are entirely wrong (demonstrated in your case by the child coping perfectly well).

Since when? Unless you homeschool?

I’ll repost it for you-

Yep, it is- as everyone knows. Home education is legal.
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What isn’t legal is a school not providing the education they are contracted to provide- they can’t just decide not to have disabled students when they think they will be inconvenient.
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Editing disabled children out of photos at school is just a solid example of the general attitude in society that disabled people are disposable.
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The point of my post was that schools claim to know xyz (like you knew she wouldn’t cope), but actually they are entirely wrong (demonstrated in your case by the child coping perfectly well).

Sorry comment added to wrong post. It is hard to educate someone when they are lobbing chairs across a room and swearing at you but we never give up on her so do our very bedt for her and her family.

Unfortunately that is pretty standard. As is winding up a child with ADHD/autism when a specialist is coming in to asses them.

Totally agree with your good post @Justrolledmyeyesoutloud

Yes
"It is very hard to educate if you have a pupil disrupting the class lobbing a chair and swearing 🤬 or doing some other kind of drama."
@MyMotherThouArt

So… send them home when ofsted come in, and airbrush them out of photos, why not. They are hard work after all. Bloody disabled people, expecting to be included in society. We should watch our entitlement.

Saw this story and it made me think of this thread

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68692977

I was literally just going to post the same thing.

The world is becoming smaller and smaller (and increasingly more difficult and inaccessible) for disabled people.

Im Autistic, DD is Autistic, and my (late) sister had Downs Syndrome. The attitudes in the 1970s were appalling. I hoped we had left those days behind, but It's not much better, now tbh.