Parents ignoring headteacher

[DisappointedOne]

Concert this morning for youngest children in primary school's Easter bonnet parade. Headteacher stresses at start that parents are free to take photos but that if posting on social media no other child than your own is to be included in photos. He says this very clearly before every school event.

This evening a parent has posted photos and video of her child plus about 6 others on Facebook. She's a TA in another primary school FFS. Headteacher warns that one complaint will see a no photos policy introduced. I know that the parents of one of the children shown don't want photos of him on social media.

WIBU to point this out AGAIN to this person and ask her to edit/remove the pictures? I'm chair of the PTA if that makes a difference.

It's all kicked off. Photos and vids were set to public and someone has informed the parents who don't want their child on FB. They've gone apeshit and the person who posted them is trying to defend her posting them because the other parents can't monitor the whole of FB.

JEEZ.

Kids are all very visible. I took a photo of a class of 37 children earlier (requested by a teacher) and all of their faces are perfectly clear.

Words. Fail. Me.

A TA with this attitude. Public settings.

Take screenshots. It needs sorting out.

That parent is a selfish arse. Does anyone know whether Facebook will delete photos or videos if their parents complain that they didn't give their permission for their child to be in the picture?

Wow! Can't believe the TA, on one occasion, a parent asked me not to post pics of their DC online at my own DC's birthday party, why wasn't important to me, they didn't have to justify themselves, their child, their rules. I can't believe she actually went and posted it, with a public setting!

Facebook don't delete anything unless it has a baby breastfeeding in it.

So beheadings, no. Homophobic abuse, no. Misogynistic and pornographic propaganda, no. Baby's head covering nipple - gone in seconds.

May are you a parent? Would you like to bet your child's safety on whether someone can identify them from a photo or not? And even if you were willing to do that for your own child, what right would you have to do that for another person's child?

I presume you have not done this but please be aware that others out there, with similar attitudes to you may well be putting kids at risk because they cannot see the danger. It's a matter of safety and common sense.

They've gone apeshit and the person who posted them is trying to defend her posting them because the other parents can't monitor the whole of FB.

That TA is in the wrong job (even if it is at a different school). She either needs to revisit her safeguarding training or be sacked.

Ffs!. I second contacting the school she works for. Moron.

She should lose her job over this, what a foolish error of judgement, and I suspect not the first time she has done it.

It's not hard to just put a photo of your own child up. DS had his first easter hat parade yesterday and the daycare asked for no photos, so I just enjoyed the parade then took a photo of him standing in the yard with his hat on. It's not rocket science. Put the phone/camera down and enjoy what is going on.

I'm not been sarky here: we've had multiple threads on this before.

Threads where parents and carers have shared heartbreaking personal stories and clarified the possible and real dangers of photo sharing when asked not to.

Including one where another poster showed how easy it was to trace someone.

Maybe this is one of those issues that needs more publicity? I'm pretty careful on the net, I work in research and look at real world data so trawling through open chat rooms/blogs and you'd be shocked at what people put out there. But there still seems to be a level of ignorance out there.

Is it genuine belief in the goodness of others? Magical thinking: if I only post pics of my child no 'bad' people will look (ignoring that others can be seen in the pic.) lack of understanding? Or just selflessness.

Back to topic; OP Please follow this up.

selflessness.... and a belief that if you want to do something you should be able to because the likelihood of anything happening is (the person thinks) very slim. Oh... and being an idiot!

Sorry mean to say selfishness bad autocorrect.

Ha ha lazy me! I thought it said selfishness and coppied it!!!

If you have an iPhone with location services selected - the photo will have the location attached - doesn't take much to workout where a child lives or goes to school.

If you have an iPhone with location services selected - the photo will have the location attached

Yes, and this is probably true of other smartphones too. You can see it in the photo properties on a computer or in things like Picasa.

If I have a need to strip the location out, I either take a screenshot of the photo and use that or manually edit the EXIF data of the photo to remove the location.

And loads of people will have no idea what that means, soupy, won't care to find out and will carry on blithely posting shit on FB because no one can tell them what to do.

What shocks me also - is that she is a TA in another school. She should know better.

Schools have endless amounts of training on e safety and child protection. We were explicitly told not to be traceable on FB, hidden / secret etc and not comment on school related matters. This includes photos of children etc.

If I have a need to strip the location out, I either take a screenshot of the photo and use that or manually edit the EXIF data of the photo to remove the location.

Or just turn off Location Services

This is why our school removes the children who are not allowed in pics from view before pics are allowed to be taken. It's simple and the safest solution. Some of these children are also not allowed to be in performances or on stage incase the school are filming it. I would report the woman and screen shot and send it to the head teacher. How dare she put children and their families st risk.

It's pretty rubbish for those kids to never be allowed to take part in performances because of selfish parents.

Or just turn off Location Services

How does that work when you've already taken the photo then...?

This is why our school removes the children who are not allowed in pics from view before pics are allowed to be taken. It's simple and the safest solution.

I think it's a shit solution. Those poor children being singled out as different.