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When my kid was in elementary school we were expected to sign a “students in media” waiver that basically let them use the pictures they took of the children ho
by cgriswald 7y ago
When my kid was in elementary school we were expected to sign a “students in media” waiver that basically let them use the pictures they took of the children however they wanted. I don’t know if it was required but it was heavily pushed and included with a packet of about a thousand things to sign, most of which were required.
I never signed it. I just included the unsigned piece of paper (among others I disagreed with) in amongst the pile of papers I turned in to them. Nothing ever came of not signing but I suspect I could sue them now.
- cameronbrown 7y agoHonestly, I think this practice is horrible. Kids don't deserved to be plastered all over Facebook by their school. It's deeply uncomfortable.
- astronautjones 7y agoit's cultural, too - there are many super popular apps for obscuring your kids face in Japan (or amongst japanese baseball players in the US, if you want to find some easy examples)
- koolba 7y agoWhat’s the Japanese baseball player reference here?
- chillydawg 7y agoProbably they're Japanese players bought by us teams and so bring their families over. They're not immigrants and will likely go home and they're culturally Japanese, so I expect they practice Japanese norms on social media like obscuring their children's faces when posting.
- shakna 7y agoOne of the smaller tasks I had when I was a school IT admin was removing the faces of students who hadn't had the waiver signed from photos the school wanted to upload to the site or social media.
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