Parents & Pictures (redux)

It's fun when an idle thought grows into a full-blown discussion. Please see yesterday's post for a very informative comment by Ed Myers that helped me to have a much better understanding of the concerns that some parents have about their children being photographed.

In addition, some LCPS teachers are apparently having a conversation about these same photo restrictions via email, so I went a little more in depth and pulled out the photo permission form, and the explanation provided in the Student Rights & Responsibilities handbook:

Students may occasionally be photographed or videotaped during their participation in school activities. These photographs may be used to provide information to the public about LCPS programs and activities through school system publications and displays, in newspapers and other print media, on television, and in connection with school system information provided on the internet.
Parents/guardians may elect not to have their child photographed or videotaped for use in media and may further request that no individual pictures be used in the school yearbook and that the child not be a part of classroom photographs.

On the form itself, parents have three options:

I grant permission for my child (named below) to be photographed or featured in any videotape, television, audio recording, or broadcast that will be produced by and available to the public from LCPS, or (to the extent that access is within LCPS’s control during school hours) to the media.

I do NOT grant permission for my child (named below) to be photographed or featured in any videotape, television, audio recording, or broadcast that will be produced by and available to the public from LCPS, or (to the extent that access is within LCPS’s control during school hours) to the media.

I do NOT grant permission for my child to be photographed for the school yearbook or in a classroom photograph.