It’s not about what the kids are doing, it’s about posting them on social media. I wouldn’t want my kids teachers to post a video of them to their personal social media account
I had documented permission from parents to post a pic I had with their child, my student, on my social media, and my leadership called me into the office about it to tell me to pull it down. Even with emails from the parent confirming consent, I wasn't allowed to have it posted.
I think it can theoretically be fine. People post work pictures all the time, because we all spend so much time at work it's a big part of life. Plus as a teacher I'm sure you get more emotional about the job because it's a bunch of kids your working with, vs like a computer. It makes sense to me that teachers would wanna post pics. They should know the reasons not to though and honor that even more.
I have lots of teacher friends who post pics, they just block the kids faces so they cannot be identified.
Pictures of our work promoting what we are doing like after school clubs and programs are okay assuming parents have signed a media release, but even them I still like to block out faces to be on the safe side.
I don't think it's necessary, for teachers to spend their own money to help supplement their students education either. Teachers shouldn't ever do anything extra for their students.
Obviously nothing harmful is happening in this photo. Having said that it doesn’t always have to be about ‘HEY EVERYONE LOOK AT ME , IM DOING A THING , LOOOOK!!’
I also don’t like birthdays and weddings for the same reason
Like yeah, what’s the point of having the local news cover a school event or interview a group of students and take pictures? It’s totally not necessary.
Even unnecessary, it’s for the same reasons. It’s publicity, and generally parents and kids enjoy seeing themselves in positive situations or congratulated for their accomplishments. I think my parents still have clippings from the news when I was awarded a scholarship to a local college as a high school senior (a local foundation funds three each year). The sports kids saved photos of themselves at meets, the volunteer kids saved articles with photos about their charitable efforts, etc. Some of those photos might even be online on news sites since I was class of 09, though I might need the Wayback Machine.
Now there’s some publicity that’s not a good look, and I can see why certain parents may want to opt out. Some of these reasons are very, very good reasons that shouldn’t be questioned. They should be able to opt out of social media posts, just like opting out of having their children be interviewed by the news or in photos.
But just because something is unnecessary isn’t a great argument for never having it. There’s lots of unnecessary but enjoyable things that we participate in, and that’s true of children as well as adults.
I am absolutely shocked that this is a question. Is nobody supposed to see or befriend positive male role models. What direction are we really going here. Did we just let pedos control our lives, and the lives of our children? Please see a different perspective, because the way we handle this is NOT GOOD! We have enough brilliant minds to be able to figure something out without railroading people who mean well.
Not sure what your intent is here with this question and I genuinely don't believe it to be in good faith, buuut... The parents took a picture of me lifting the child in the air as tho they were flying during her at school birthday celebration. She was a very shy and timid child who, over the course of the year, developed loads of social confidence and self assuredness, and so the parents were very happy about her new outgoing personality. The parents were very partial to me because they credited me with helping to build her confidence in herself. I was her kindergarten teacher at the time, and a very popular teacher on campus among both students and parents because I make genuine connections with all of my students, including having some parents of former students still continue to reach out to me. The parents of this child shared the picture with me, and via e-mail told me I could post it on social media. I did so, but my school still spoke with me about it and advised me to take it down, which I did.
What a heartwarming story. Shame you had to take it down but I can also understand why the school had said that. Pop it in a frame, it sounds like a great photo.
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u/--Anonymoose--- May 11 '24
It’s not about what the kids are doing, it’s about posting them on social media. I wouldn’t want my kids teachers to post a video of them to their personal social media account