I've done a school website for a Primary School in East Sussex (about 100 kids 4-11) and the Headmistress even had some photos of school sports activities specially taken with all the kids looking _away_ from the camera - or in class with their faces turned down towards their desks, or taken from the back of the room!
The result in this case is that you see lots of kids - but no-one can see if they are a happy bunch or not. (I thought that would be important for parents wanting t choose a school and said so). To me they look as though they are terrified of looking up in case the teacher get's mad at them!
They have even made me sign an undertaking not to publish the URL of the site on any of my publicity material or client lists! Since it was only one site of a number I've done, I didn't worry too much.
I know there are some nasty people out there that prey on little kids, (and I won't say what I'd do to them - very slowly and very painfully, being a parent myself) but I really think this is PC gone too far. How can anyone possibly make contact with any child through this site? Individual kids (nor the teachers for that matter) don't have their own email at school, they are not named anywhere on the site and apart from hanging around outside the school no-one couldn't contact them. Anyone hanging around would soon get the strong arm of the law on their collar as the Police Station is just 100 yards along the road and one of the uniformed PCs is always hovering around at start and finish times - plus there is a school crossing patrol lady as well watching what's going on. Every child has to be collected by an adult known to the teachers every day (school rule). If the known adult doesn't arrive, the child stays at school until the teachers are satisfied the person collecting them is authorised to do so.
Peter MacGregor
At 11:06 26/08/2003, you wrote:
I've found this discussion interesting, mainly because here in the UK most education authorities are advising schools to ban the use of video and still cameras at school events, because of the legal repercussions. They ask that the parent of every child in every video/photo give written consent before their children are filmed/photographed. Some parents are hotly in favour -"I don't want my child filmed by parents I don't know". Others think it's going too far - "Why shouldn't I film my child's football match/ netball match/ sports day?"
Public sports centres, especially swimming pools, are already banning photo phones as well as cameras.
Dianne Reuby<>< http://firstwebbuilder.co.uk http://freesitebuilder.co.uk
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