Newspaper taking photos of children at school then selling them to parents

[Palinto]

When DS started school I ticked the box which said I didn't mind him having his photo taken, assuming this would be for school related things.

A term in and a photo of their first day at school is published in our cities newspaper, which we can then buy from them.... I felt a bit about this but obviously didn't want to not buy a picture of my DS on his first day at school.. I was then charged £7 plus £2 postage for a rubbish quality tiny print.

It reminds me of being in Morocco and getting followed by guys with cameras who would then try to sell you the pictures they took, i.e. not entirely appropriate for an infant school. I wouldn't mind so much buying a photo from the actual school, but the newspaper?

AIBU to be annoyed at this?

[Floggingmolly]

mumagain39. They don't actually name the children in the photograph???
You do realise there will be photos of 2 or more classes of 30 children from each school in the borough; in ours there are 6.
So... at least 360 children, in such tiny print that magnifying glasses are needed to make out the individual children. Op's child is not "all over the papers", believe me, and most definitely has not been specially chosen to sell more papers, as she seems to fondly imagine.

[shesariver]

Mumagain - well if youre not worried paedophiles and this is not souly about peodophiles jeez what exactly are you raving on about then?

And as to your sarcastic comment about "everyone" working in child abuse/protection, I can only vouch for myself as Im a Psychiatric Nurse and its common knowledge - as in you don't need to be an expert to understand that children are more at risk from people they know, usually family then friends than the mysterious stranger paedophile...google that if you dont believe me.