AIBU school and photos!!

[Tryingtostayyoung]

Hi all!! Looking for opinions as have absolutely no idea whether DH or I ABU. DD is just about to start nursery, it's also part of a school and we have just been going through all the forms to fill in and give back. In there is a document that basically is asking your permission to use your child's photo for publicity or in newspapers as sometimes it may not be possible to ask your permission first.

I went to a very big primary school so we were forever having newspapers etc coming in and taking pics and it was always so exciting to be picked and it also reads to me that they may take pictures and put it on things like their FB page or newsletters on fun days and stuff and I would trust that it wouldn't be something that I wouldn't want as I obviously trust the school to be sending my DD there.

DH doesn't want to give consent because it's not that he is against this kind of thing but that he would want to see the picture first as it may be something that he wouldn't approve of but does aknowledge he may be abit OTT.

Would you be ok with this? AIBU to want to tick the yes I give consent box?

Thanks!!

I used to sign and allow pictures, so long as names weren't given, without much thought. I now worry that facial recognition technology might be so good by the time the dc are grown up that anyone will be able to search and pull up photos documenting their entire childhood. I do still sign, but feel like there's a chance I might not be protecting their future privacy, which isn't mine to give away. So I don't think that your dh is being unreasonable.

How about asking the school if they have any policies on the kind of pictures that might be used? You'd never get to veto individual photos, but it might set your DH's mind at rest if he knows what the limitations will be.

Thank you all so much for your opinions, loads of good points and also points for my husbands opinion that I actually never thought of. We are going to the school next week to sign some more papers and I think my husbands now decided to take the morning off to come along so we're going to ask them when we go some more questions about is and maybe see if we can amend it to say that yes we give permission for anything to do with the school but not with any other product, service or political campaign. I think then my husband will feel a lot better about it and actually I think I would also prefer that.