A council has apologised after parents were offered a choice of class photos with or without children with complex needs in them.

Parents at Aboyne Primary complained after being sent a link from a photography company offering them alternative pictures.

    • @xorollo@lemmy.world
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      231 year ago

      Nah, in Texas and Florida, they just keep kids with ‘complex needs’ all together in a classroom at the end of the hall, so they don’t have to do anything fancy for the classroom photo.

    • Swordgeek
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      101 year ago

      The school was unaware that the company did this.

      In Texas or Florida, it would have been the school (board) organizing the alternate shoot.

      • @shottymcb@lemm.ee
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        31 year ago

        That seems unlikely, even if it’s what they claim. You would need the staff to help organize the separate photos.

      • ivanafterall
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        1 year ago

        Yeah, the second photo offered to parents was the article thumbnail.

  • @dogslayeggs@lemmy.world
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    I was watching some TV show, maybe CSI SVU or maybe some English crime procedural, where the parents were brought in to talk about their son physically abusing a special needs person. It turned out the parents photoshopped out the special needs person from the class photo, and that was used as evidence that they encouraged his discriminatory behavior. I was thinking while watching the show that those are some real fucking assholes for photoshopping out someone from a school photo before they would display it in their home.

    Turns out it was something real people do.

    • @shalafi@lemmy.world
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      221 year ago

      You know the only reason the company offered this option was because they had been asked by other parties.

    • @lud@lemm.ee
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      121 year ago

      Btw, who displays class photos at home?

      Why would you want a bunch of random kids on your wall?

      • @Microw@lemm.ee
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        181 year ago

        With a couple I know, they had the class photo of one of their sons at the fridge one year. Seemed weird to me too, so I asked. Turns out the son had wanted to hang it because he had always had trouble with fitting in in previous schools, and this was the first time he really was friends with those kids and invited them over as well.

        That seemed like a good reason to me personally.

  • @eatthecake@lemmy.world
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    251 year ago

    How did they get two different versions? Did they take two sets of photos or edit out some of the children? I hope somebody gets fired.

  • @Wirrvogel@feddit.de
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    131 year ago

    It is understand some class photographs were taken before the pupils with additional support needs were brought in.

    How did that happen, when no one in the school was in with it? Where were the kids with complex needs at that time? As a parent I would have a closer look at the school, no matter what they say now. I mean it takes time to get the kids stand together, stop making funny faces etc. This was not done in five minutes or the pictures would be awful.

    • @Microw@lemm.ee
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      11 year ago

      I’d imagine (from personal experience): the period before was split, with one part of the class doing something and the others doing something else. Therefore they didnt arrive at the photoshoot together.