BBC school social distancing imagery

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The majority of photographs being used by the bbc in articles relating to schools reopening are starting to irritate me. The attached pics are all from the BBC news website, most are the headline photo, showing at most 6 children in a class, the 2nd image, also from their website but specifically in relation to an article about worries of lack of social distancing, shows the reality. Most classes at my dcs school will have 34 children.

I am all for schools reopening, I am a teaching assistant and have 3 of my own children, I am more than happy for both my children and myself to be going back, but I do think this imagery isn't truthfully reflecting the reality of what classrooms will be like.

@FrenchItalian it definitely is about false images! The point of this thread is about the photos BBC are CHOOSING to use, which clearly are false-the vast majority of parents WILL NOT (accept some rural village schools may) be sending their children back to schools which look like the images they portray. So as an national broadcaster they have the right and responsibility to lie to parents about what classrooms will look like do they?

[quote FrenchItalian]@CKBJ

It’s not about false images. The BBC is a national broadcaster and they have a responsibility to encourage parents to send their DC back to school rather than pandering to hysterical wailing.

It’s interesting how many people are only pro listening to the experts when the experts agree with them. What part of Chris Whitty’s evidence-based conclusion that schools are safe do you have evidence to disagree with?[/quote]
So they should show images that show happy, engaged students in rows and not socially distanced then. Otherwise parents and students will get a shock on the first day back and this will lead to lots of complaints in schools. If it's safe to have full classes, why not show them? It's not hysterical wailing to want the pictures to match the guidelines, it's common sense. I don't want my students expecting to be in classes of 8 when they clearly won't be...

@Flagsfiend I agree.
If it’s safe to have full classes-which the government and experts are saying. Why not show this in the photos/images of schools and classrooms?

@FrenchItalian I’m really confused as to which bit of the BBCs remit is to ‘encourage parents to send their DC back to school’?

I thought there were a media/news reporting outlet. I wasn’t aware we paid our licence fee for them to influence education.

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Complained. Glad that it isn't just me who has been fuming about this.

@SquashedFlyBiscuits I used your image about the Bahamas/Weston Super Mare.

So cross about this. It is at best lazy journalism but at worst it is seeking to disempower parents and students by suggesting that the return to school will include small groups of socially distanced children (who apparently are predominantly Caucasian and six years old) rather than seeking to further the debate about how we can all manage this return to schools together, as safely as possible.

@Ickabog

Interesting that the main way to encourage parents to send their children back, is by sharing misleading images that bear no resemblance to what will actually be happening in September.

Doesn't exactly fill them with confidence. If the measures for September are considered safe then why not show the reality?

This.

It's like they don't realise parents have actually seen the schools they are sending their children too!

The BBC’s remit is to educate, inform and entertain. They’re a national broadcaster not a state broadcaster.

@MoreListeningLessChatting
Coronavirus: Risk of flu or road accident higher than COVID-19 for schoolchildren, says deputy CMO

Think you’ve posted on the wrong thread, this thread is about the misuse of photos/images!

The socially distanced classrooms aren't just targeted at parents. It clearly helps the teachers-and-unions-are-obstructing-opening narrative. If you hadn't been in a classroom since you or your kids were at school, you'd look at the pics and think teachers were making a fuss over nothing and wanted more time at home instead.

Pic 1: that they have visited a classroom before

Pic 2: He's London Mayor here so probably didn't move around the school at the same time as the kids so wouldn't know how crowded corridors are but should have taken from this how close you sit with classmates.

Pic 3: so he's teaching 2m social distancing when the classroom isn't socially distanced and empty. Makes a lot of sense 🤔

@BadAbbot

The BBC’s remit is to educate, inform and entertain. They’re a national broadcaster not a state broadcaster.

Educate - is to cascade information to groups and teach them and allow them to memorise and anylsye

Inform - if you are informing them the information should be correct

Entertain - well it's certainly entertaining watching them try and convince a load of parents who have actually seen their children's schools that they are some kind of 6 per class establishment.

Found a realistic photo on Twitter for the BBC.

@netflixismysidehustle Yup, that’s frightening familiar.

It's a one way system too!

Agree completely OP and it's not just the BBC. Our schools are back to normal come September.

After complaining yesterday, I've submitted my second one today. It is misleading and politically biased reporting.

I’ve complained again-I think we need to keep on doing it.

I see on their website they list recent complaints which they have received a high volume of. They then write a general reply saying things like, ‘we still don’t think we did anything wrong’, but I’d still be interested to know what they say about this.

Yes! These photos are driving me mad.

They don't help anybody who believes them. The UsforThem types are upset and angry that their children are going to be 'subjected' to social distancing and masks and the Boycott Unsafe Schools types are lulled into a false sense of security and will get a shock when they see the reality. And everyone in the middle is just rolling their eyes, probably!

I'm in a small, rural independent school with only about 15 to a class. But that means classrooms are correspondingly smaller so you wouldn't get photos like that from our school either. I think I could fit 4 or 5 children in my classroom at 2m apart.

@netflixismysidehustle that corridor is EXACTLY what my school is like.

They're still using the distanced images. Argh... It's driving me mad.

Have made yet another comparing. A masked man helping a uniformed masked under 11? Utter bull 💩

*complaint

The image changed on BBC - did I do that? 😆

The same classroom picture is there today. I've complained again.

Watching the 10 o'clock news, showed a classroom at a school in Oadby, presumably from today. Only seemed to be 6 children in the class, was this set up for the camera or have hardly any parents sent their children to school? Anyone work in a Leicestershire school and know the answer?