Parents offered class photo with no 'complex needs' pupils

[BlowDryRat]

This is appalling. A school photographer offered class photo options with SEN children removed. The kids and parents involved must feel so hurt.

Lord, that is horrific.

That’s horrendous

As a parent of a kid with complex needs id be devastated

Is there a source for this? Where did it happen?

??? Which school was this!

Wow I actually gasped reading that. How awful!

www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce5epgp2zdno

It's literally in the OP.

Appalling. My son is autistic…

It's literally in the OP.

@sprigatito and @Fluffyblobs are you really that lazy?

Awful story.

But I honestly can't imagine any of the parents in my child's class opting for such a photo.

On the app, there's no link to a story or any details about the source or the school

This is absolutely shocking.

I'm just lost for words.

How heartbreaking for those children and their families.

That is absolutely jaw-dropping. How devastating for those children and their families

I’m not surprised it was Tempest, they are awful and some of their photographers make no adjustments for SEN children whatsoever. I’m glad the school stood by the parents.

As the parent of a child with complex needs who works in a mainstream school with children with complex needs it makes me a combination of angry and sad. The poor parents made to feel their children aren’t good enough.

shocking from the photographer involved.

It shouldn't even be an option!!

I imagine there will be some MN cognitive dissonance on this. It's good that people see this as horrendous. However, there are regularly threads/posts here suggesting that SEND pupils ought to be removed permanently from mainstream classrooms because of their malign influence on 'normal children'.

You'd be surprised how much unsubstantiated crap gets posted on online forums. Ain't nobody got time to google all of it.

Agreed. Nothing - no school name, no source - until someone else links the BBC further down.

I don’t understand how this happened. The school are saying that it wasn’t them. But surely the teacher noticed when the class was being split up? Or is the school one with a specific unit for complex needs and so they took one photo of Mrs Jackson’s class 3J and then took another photo of all of Year 3 which includes the Year 3 kids in the unit? It just seems such an awful thing to do which makes me think that I am missing something.

The only way I could see this happening is if in fact there were 3 options and the photographer thought there were two groups of kids in the year so took one of each group separately and one of the year.

This doesn't seem to be the case as it sounds like TWO options were available. So someone needs to be investigated by the police for hate crime.

I have to sort of agree. For this to be an option, there must have been requests in the past for the sections with certain children in to be removed. And for those to be removed it suggests that they have been photographed separately on purpose.

The way a lot of photos are done now the children are photographed in smaller groups and then those groups are put together to make one photo so it would be easy to group certain children together and then leave out that group.