meirman wrote:

In alt.home.repair on Sun, 20 Jul 2003 17:29:06 +0100 "Neil"
posted:


"parish" parish_AT_ntlworld.com wrote in message
et...
Stuart wrote:

Talking of videoing/filming kids there was a large article in our local
rag this week about a school whose governors had decreed that parents
weren't allowed to film (still or video) their kids at the annual Sports
Day. The article featured a guy who'd hidden in the bushes to film his
child.

If my kids school every imposes such a ban they had better damn well
have a High Court injunction to back it up.

Sad to say, the school my wife teaches at also has a similar ban - for all
activities.
Basically, to protect themselves against being sued by (idiot) parents, they
asked "if anyone objects please tell us".
A couple of parents did. So to be safe the blanket ban was issued.
Don't blame the school, or the head, blame the parents who insist on this
ruling.

I don't get it. Are they afraid the film will be used in Funniest
Home Videos? Or kiddie porn? Or what?


Certainly in the newspaper story I read there was no explicit reason
given but I would assume that paedophiles are the fear.


If they can't have cameras at some student sports events, what's this
I hear about there being a million video cameras in London (or
England?) at intersections, banks, public sidewalks, lobbies, halls,
etc?


And increasing all the time. Big brother is watching us.

The crazy thing is that the schools that have these bans almost
certainly still do official class/team/school photos and then offer them
for sale to the parents; so, if one of the parents is a paedo then they
get the pictures of the kids anyway, but the school makes some money
from it so I guess that makes it alright.


It causes more trouble for the school than it does for the parents.
As regards High Court injunctions, please don't drag the school to court.
It just syphons money from the school to the lawyer's pockets, and nobody
wins.
Neil




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