Not consenting to dc being on school Facebook

[nevernotstruggling]

I deactivated my Facebook account for 5 years. Dds are 6 and 9. The school didn't have social media when dd1 started in 14.

I've activated my Facebook in the last week and been directed to the school Facebook page. I was horrified. Hundreds of photos of children including mine close up not group shots far away.

The school sent a media consent form this week where you could choose yes to photos and website but no to social media. I have said no.

I'm worried that this might mean the dds are left out of pictures when they are taken and this might upset them.

I don't consent to my child being posted on open social
Media accounts I'm not having it. It's totally unnecessary and unsafe.

Has anyone else done this? What was the outcome?

DD was targeted by an unsavory young man

He took her picture from a website wrote something horribly deeming and quite worrying and plastered it all over different website

Upset isn’t the work

People do this!!

There was also a friend caught in a video doing something she shouldn’t have - again all over social media it’s been shared thousands of times - how will she ever get that back? You can’t.

I think some people need education about the danger of over sharing

@clairedelalune and @dragoning I'm going through the school Facebook in it's entirely and requesting all images are removed. I have noticed that the close up pics are only after the new head started in jan - before that v far away group shots carefully taken.

You’d have loved me OP!

I did marketing for a school - I implemented Twitter and FB for parents, and I stuck pupils (with parental consent) on the sides of buses and had an ad campaign running at CineWorld.

I'm well aware of safeguarding, well aware of those pupils under court orders, whose parents declined permission, and so forth.

School places are competitive, they need and want to be the school of choice, not the school that is filled up by the left overs that can't get in anywhere. In order to do that, profiles must be raised, through marketing the school brand.

You want the school to remove images of other people's children even if the parents have given consent ?

As this thread has amply demonstrated, some parents really don't understand (or, as a PP said upthread, care) about what it is they are consenting to on their DCs' behalf.

@showerpower images of my children

nevernotstruggling it sounds like you noticed just in time. They should definitely have asked your permission. I hope you give them a rocket!

PlainSpeakingStraightTalking are you talking about marketing for state schools?

@dragoning - yup, bog standard academy in South London. All schools heavily market in this area.

In Italy it is illegal to put photos of children on Facebook

We will be horrified in a few years time how much oversharing and loss of control over data and pictures we have. Our children will be the losers

another reason why DD won't be attending an academy, I bet it's bloody Harris.

If a school doesn't market, they close, because parents send their kids to the new and oh, so shiny, heavily marketed Harrises and their ilk.

So even non academies do it.

(In any case, you have no control over whether a school academises after you've started your DC there; all it takes is an ambitious board of governors/head or a poor Ofsted report, and then you have all academies in the area).

They all do it, academies or not

That could happen anywhere. You could be sat in a coffee shop and someone could take a photo of you and turn it into a meme. Post it on Facebook, use it as their profile picture, send it to a newspaper. And your children. You're photographed constantly by CCTV camera in most of the places you go, and on the streets. By people's dash cams, on their tablets or phones, on normal cameras in public places. It could happen anywhere.

It's all rather hysterical, don't you think? At least if you're posting them, or the school, you know who has taken them.

@Rivertam - no not Harris, wouldn't work for them if my life depended on it …. but another South London chain, but a worse shower of shite!

Is that possible??

A shower of shite with a big boat full of animals?

Or a shower of shite in the middle of a desert?

(can you tell I know the area fairly well?)

@StopMakingAFoolOutofMe rtft

I have RTFT. And commented throughout. What's your point?

It's all rather hysterical, don't you think?

Evidently we don't think that, no.

Facebook is a business, and any photos uploaded belong to facebook.

No they don't. They really don't. I do wish people wouldn't spout off about stuff they clearly have absolutely no understanding of, in this case copyright

There is loads of information about this fallacy if you care to look. This site explains it pretty clearly:
www.howtogeek.com/304037/does-facebook-own-my-photos/