Photos of DC on school website

[Poppetsss]

Nursery, school, activities have all asked for consent to use pictures as is the usual, in the past. We've said they can use them in certain contexts (internal but not external). DC does an activity, let's say ballet and is in booklets for shows with the rest of the class in a group photo and they're sold to family only at the moment as far as I understand. We have always said that they cannot use DC for prospectuses or on their website. This is the same for school.

I was on the school website today looking for something and found loads of pictures of DC on there. The consent form was very clear. We don't share pictures of DC online anymore and haven't for a few years now, we only share pictures with certain people in our lives if they ask (eg. PILs who are in another country and we know don't like sharing family on SM).

A family member has said they don't see my issue at all.

AIBU?

In fairness, any creepy "peadophile" is 92% likely to be Grandad.
Who probably gets to see plenty of photos of his grandchildren without having to download from the school website.

Agree with NowZeus too.

Im with you OP.
I don't allow my children's photos to be on the school website or the schools twitter page. Once I have found photos and the teacher was so apologetic and made sure he took them all down. Some parents do question me as to why I don't allow their photos and its a case of, I just don't. I think it's an absolute waste of time all round. Photograph everything and upload everything and let's be honest, most parents don't even look.

This is actually the second time. Last time we felt we had to compromise due to circumstances and, in hindsight, I don't think we should have. However, it was clear it was for that occasion only that we'd compromise.

They ask every new school year (Primary) and I was shocked yesterday because there's so many photos. I'm not sure if they did a big upload of photos in one go but, if not, it means they're not really checking properly when they upload things.

They have said they will remove them.

I didn't think anyone still used the phrase 'drama llama' anymore 😂

There's been an increase in attempted child abductions locally. They may work in different ways to how I imagine it and perhaps they're more opportunistic but I'd rather be safe. Plus, I see my job as a parent to value their privacy until they are able to make informed decisions themselves and also to keep them safe which includes online.

It is good they are removing them.
BUT
you also need them to review what went wrong and do something to prevent it happening again.

This time it is 'just' your personal choice not to have pictures there, but next time it could be a child fleeing domestic violence, or adopted etc.

You need to flag it to the school as others have said, they need to tighten up their procedures for checking. Happened to me recently at a local community group I take my Childminding children to & local nursery often brings 1 of their groups along too. A parent told me they'd seen us on nursery's public Twitter feed, when I checked it was loads of photos of my group of children, not 1 nursery child in a single pic! Needless to say I put in a complaint & all the photos were swiftly removed. I don't ever post photo publicly of my own kids or those I look after, nursery hadn't even asked permission to take photos at the group & as none of the other adults present were aware of a camera had done it sneakily as well!
It's your choice whatever permissions you give to school, my own children are similar to you - allowed in internal photos to use in class etc but not on public SM. As they've got older they have chosen to keep it as this & all avoid SM/selfie photos like the plague!

I'd be furious if my younger kids pic was put online by the school I don't even put pictures of the kids online because they are not old enough to give me permission.

My oldest is old enough to give permission herself and she choose not to give permission for her pictures to go online.

It's really serious, those photo/publishing consent practices exist for a reason. People in hiding (for myriad reasons) need to be able to trust that institutions like schools are going to actually abide by whatever consent was given or withheld. I'd be following this up if I was you because this is indicative of their safeguarding attitude overall if they can't work out why it's important.