From: "Malcolm Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The photography issue has been raised more than once and I still take
pictures on occasion on school grounds, but I do try to just capture my own
children in those images. Within the school, for plays or such, it was
written in a newsletter a while back that photography wasn't permitted. It
has had no effect whatsoever on cameras and video recorders, and no one has
been approached or the subject raised before the event by a teacher
presenting the performance even once.
I suspect the whole issue of actually taking pictures on school property or
in the school has almost NOTHING to do with children's safety and almost
EVERYTHING to do with perceived potential liability of the school, school
district, or the employees working there.
It could be anything imaginable. From public displays of affection between
school children, to smoking, to the behavior of the teachers themselves.
Schools do not like having the things that could potentially look bad, being
publicly exposed.
Tom C.
