Back to school pics on social media

[abouttogetlynched]

I have seen countless “back to school” photos on my social media today, but AIBU to be surprised (although I don’t know if I really am) by the number of people who give the names of their DC and show the school they go to?

I know I know these people, but some are ex work colleagues, ex school pals etc - people whose kids I have never met. Who else is on their social media that they don’t know that well who can see this stuff?

I’ve counted 5 today who are teachers and have posted their primary aged kids with name and school shown. Shouldn’t they know better? Like from safeguarding POV?

Whilst I wouldn't worry about a random picture of my child and someone knowing what school she goes to I hate the thought that it could be banked as wanking material for some perv.

There was one last week, a first day of high-school pic that was shared and bookmarked THOUSANDS of times in 24hours on X. Nothing remarkable about the pic, a pretty girl in her school uniform posing a little.

It’s not just about peadophiles though. I put up a (very rare) pic of my kids this morning and took out the identifying logos etc and made sure the background was fairly generic because I previously been harassed by someone (police involvement etc) and even though my social media is pretty locked down I still don’t want to take the risk. It’s not a threat to life situation but I still don’t want that person knowing where I am (even though the likelihood of them ever coming across the picture is so unlikely). It’s the risk assessment I do for everything I post on SM

Your husband’s sister? Are you really a danger to that child in any non-made-up way?

I suspect there are some details missing about the (alleged) incident you refer to in your last paragraph. Did you learn about this from any kind of reliable source or is it just something your paranoid nan posted on Facebook? You can literally google “secondary school girl first day of school pictures” and get hundreds of images just like the one you describe. There has to be more to the story if it’s even true.

Not always. DC has to walk past two state primaries and a private prep school to get to their own (state) primary, which is less than a mile away, and there are another two primaries a similar distance away in the other direction. Round here it really isn't possible to guess what school someone will attend just because you know what street they live on.

Schools do have safeguarding measures in place for certain children who can't be photographed in uniform, but the risk for those children will be far greater than others.

Why though?

people see the kids in real life, in their uniform and coming out their house.

As I said in my previous post, I’m all for online safety, but the school logo thing is just something I don’t get.