You can't ban parents from taking pictures..

[springtide]

Don't really want to start yet another discussion on this subject (we've had enough of them to last a lifetime!), but looks like finally some guideance has now been give to schools on the subject.


You can't ban parents from taking pictures, schools told

Parents who want to take photos of their children in school plays or at sports days can once again snap happily away.

You can't ban parents from taking pictures, schools told | Mail Online

[kBm]

Its a step in the right direction. However, people will look for other ways to ban camera use...

Earlier this month, the Mail reported how parents at Mrs Ethelston's Church of England Primary School were upset after being told they could not take pictures of their own children at sports day. The village school in Uplyme cited changes to child protection legislation for the ban on cameras.

..and so the circle continues. My other half is a teacher, and from the outset all parents are told there is no ban any any video or photographs for school events, so don't bother complaining....

[Holowlegs]

Hello there

Went to see my little one school play earlier in the year. Didn't bother bringing the camera as I thought I wasn't allowed. Well did I get a surprise when others started pulling out video cameras, point and shots and phone camera. No SLR but was a bit gutted.

Cheers Holo

[senu]

Originally Posted by Holowlegs

Hello there

Went to see my little one school play earlier in the year. Didn't bother bringing the camera as I thought I wasn't allowed. Well did I get a surprise when others started pulling out video cameras, point and shots and phone camera. No SLR but was a bit gutted.

Cheers Holo

My childrens ( primary) school has never succomed to this mindless PC
Both with video and cameras
I always make a copy of any recorded video and give one to the head and a few teachers for playback anyhow
Some parents even ask for copies

For stills ,even in the days of my 350D , it wasn't a problem

Saying that My older daughters ( secondary) school does have a few zealots whose views dont represent the majority view ..
All the kids are on facebook, flickr , but any camera owning parent is viewd very susupiciuosly at best or instantly demonised...

[kBm]

Originally Posted by senu

My childrens ( primary) school has never succomed to this mindless PC

it does make you wonder where all these ban the camera school actually are...(could they be only one and the rest are in media la la land! )

Originally Posted by senu

All the kids are on facebook, flickr , but any camera owning parent is viewd very susupiciuosly at best or instantly demonised...

Even worse when you don't actually have kids (/puts hand up), you automatically must be a predator, right?

[nero0410]

I've never been told we're not to take photo's video etc.... but at all the plays and sports days etc.... we were told that we're ok to take photos and video, but since other parents kids are could end up being in the photo/video we are not allowed to share it on the net because of data protection and chld pornogrphy

tris

[ozthecoz]

Originally Posted by kBm

it does make you wonder where all these ban the camera school actually are...(could they be only one and the rest are in media la la land! )

Unfortunatly the primary school that my boy is at has a ban on cameras etc

we weren't happy a bout it all and a number of parents complained to the head only to be told it was due to one child in THE WHOLE OF THE SCHOOL who could not have his photo taken for a reason that we were not allowed to know !

[dave_bass5]

Originally Posted by ozthecoz

could not have his photo taken for a reason that we were not allowed to know !

Was he really ugly

My kids school dont have a ban (or at least ive never been stopped) but at his old school i was "asked" not to shoot any video during a play. I asked why (this was during the play and i had already been filming bits, not the whole thing) and i was told it was because no one would buy the "official" DVD of the play if parents were allowed to film it themselves.
It turns out it was the video guy that was asking and not anyone connected with the school. I, of course didnt oblige and polity told him to present me with something official from the school and i would happily stop. He never came back but i heard afterwards that he had also asked quite a few other parents to stop.

[senu]

Ive just come from my daughters school sports day as I type this, Unusual as Id normally be at work on a friday morning but I am off today and had no excuse for missing it..

I felt rather out of place with my DSLR The 40D is not really pocket sized..( must get somthing a tad smaller ), a bit like being overdressed for a barbeque ...

Apart from a couple of parents with proper camcorder and a handful using compact still P and S for still and video, most others who were recording the event were using thier mobile phones.
My point:
In truth the vast majority ( of other parents) didnt bother and neither themselves nor the school staff were bothered about those of us who were clicking away

[OrbitalPete]

There was a cracking shot I wanted to take at Glastonbury of this toddler sat in a puddle of mud looking absolutely over-the-moon with itself but being a beardy man with no child couldn't help thinking I'd get a smack round the face for even asking.

[dave_bass5]

Originally Posted by senu

I felt rather out of place with my DSLR The 40D is not really pocket sized..( must get something a tad smaller ), a bit like being overdressed for a barbeque ...

Thats how i felt whenever i got my 70-200 F/4IS out over the park. Just as well the bushes hid it

seriously though, while i never had any problems i always felt too conspicuous with the white lens. But when ever my girlfriend had it she never got a second glance. It just seemed more natural for a mum to be shooting her kids over the park.

[mark.carline]

Originally Posted by springtide

Don't really want to start yet another discussion on this subject (we've had enough of them to last a lifetime!), but looks like finally some guideance has now been give to schools on the subject.


You can't ban parents from taking pictures, schools told

Parents who want to take photos of their children in school plays or at sports days can once again snap happily away.

You can't ban parents from taking pictures, schools told | Mail Online

i see the problem here...:

ww.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1194843/You-ban-parents-taking-pictures-schools-told.html

That paper has a habbit of dragging up stories like this time and time again that have a habbit of touching a common nerve with people. Whats next? "Political Correctness", "Health and Safty Gone mad", maybe even "2 millon immigrants"..ggrrr !!

Heres a good site that daily mail readers need to read:

Daily Mail Watch