Not a thing wrong with the photo…she was as cute as a button…she just objects to its presence online.
I’m actually surprised at the kindergarten teacher who posted pics on her own FB account. If it was a closed group just for the parents and perhaps other teachers at the school, I’d probably be ok with it but it seems pretty naive in this da and age for her to have done it.
For the district that I work for (and I assume most districts), “opt in” is the default option. There is a form at registration if you wish to choose “opt out”.
FWIW, the vast majority do not choose opt out. And we’re talking group shots with no captioned names.
If it’s an award ceremony (winners of a spelling bee, for example), the photos would probably be captioned with specific approval from parents.
Also, sporting event photos in newspapers are generally captioned.
I would not expect the teacher’s Facebook page that she shared with parents to have anyone added but the parents of the students in her class, and I’d expect her to disable sharing to friends of friends. I’d expect you to be able to opt out in those rare circumstances where knowing where the kid is could be an issue. With those precautions, I have a hard time seeing an issue.
It’s not as if non-teachers don’t do it all the time with their friends’ kids, even tagging the parent. That’s looser than anything a teacher would do.
The WWW has created a monster.
50 years agi, some guy gong nuts and shooting up a theater would be a huge LOCAL story for a week.
Now, the entire world hears about every nut case in the friggin’ World ans people become convinced that a mass-murderer (esp. of small children) are around every corner.
It will be another 3 generations for people to become innured to the ubiquity of the web, and decide to go about their lives anyway.
When ‘Horseless Carriages’ were first introduced, there was panic that the roads would become deadly. There was a (I sincerely hope UL) tale of a law requiring flagmen to proceed ahead of the contraption.
We now allow children to cross roads. And some devil-may-care parents actually allow their kids to play in the streets. I should call CPS and report them, shouldn’t I?
18 years ago when I first became a substitute teacher, one of the rules was that we could not take pictures of our students. This was in a small school district.
I’m a youth volunteer at my church, and I used to take pictures of some of the activities and music practices- stuff like that. I was warned not to do that. Not because anyone suspected me of doing anything wrong, but just so no parents would object about their kids getting their pictures out there.
My husband lived on the south side of Chicago, and in the summer would leave after breakfast, maybe come home for lunch, and then show up for dinner.
My mother would routinely kick all of us out and we would just play with the neighborhood kids or walk to town or wander around the neighborhood.
At dusk we would go to different people’s houses to play Red Rover, or Mother May I or other games in the street until it was too dark to see or we could hear my mother calling.
I don’t see kids playing street games any more. They’re really missing a lot today.
I was right at the time when playing on the actual street was discouraged. My parents didn’t want us to and though badly of the people who did. But we still played all those games, in our yards.
Though maybe you’re city folk and don’t have yards.