To feel a little uncomfortable with the choice of photo in the school newsletter?

[monstermunching70s]

My DD is in nursery and on Friday, via Parent mail I received a PDF of the newsletter. My DD is in one of the photos, with a few classmates, playing with puzzles on the floor. DD is turned to the camera, with her dress hoiked up and her legs wide apart, showing her knickers (whole crotch area). I realise that young kids flash their pants unintentionally all the time however it's the pose she is in which makes me feel a little uncomfortable. AIBU to think that the school should have been a bit more careful about choosing this image to be distributed electronically which can now be copied on? I'm not typically over zealous about photos but when I showed my DH the newsletter, saying only that DD was in it, his reaction was of equal discomfort with the choice of picture. AIBU ? If I'm not what would you do in respect of speaking to the school about it?

The school's response is good but I really fail to understand how this thread fits with all the threads about "modesty shorts". Anyone who suggests little girls wear some jersey shorts/cycle shorts type things under dresses gets shot down in flames. Little girls are going to show their knickers in dresses - that is an indisputable fact. In schools and nurseries today, there are more cameras and video machines than ever before. 4yos are taking iPad videos of eachother every day. Knickers will be seen, photographed and recorded unless girls wear shorts under dresses or better still leggings or trousers instead of dresses which are often impractical for active small children anyway.

This sort of thing isn't unusual anyway. In our nursery, a 3yo girl was photographed playing with toys, legs open and knickers showing and the photo was out on the nursery wall, blown up! Nobody seemed to notice or say anything. At pick up time the kids were in a circle listening to a story once. A 3yo girl was having a bit of a scratch and she had pushed her knickers sideways to do it!

So I send my dd in the dreaded "modesty shorts". She likes them and doesn't want people seeing her knickers anyway. She is a little older (6) but still.

Really impressed at how they've handled it. Bet head of EY had a bad weekend!

Bet you feel reassured about the nursery now.

good result and I wonder if the head of EYFS reads MN