I totally agree with the school's thinking, but isn't a shame that this is the case. The school should be praised for its forward thinking.
Imagine the outcry if pictures were found on some sick website.

What a load of rubbish.

All this sounds like is a way for the school to make a fast buck by selling the "official" pictures of their nativity play. If the parents are really that concerned, do they dress their kids in Burka's when they take them out of the house?

Media these days would have us believe a peadophile is lurking around every street corner. This is just a way to feed the publics paranoia and make us all less trusting.

Why not start hammering crooked pieces of wood against the windows now?

what idiotic paranoid idea next!, make all children wear paper bags over their heads?, oh no, that's just michael jackson!!!

This kind of idiotic thinking just increases paranoia and distrust amongst communities, familes, everyone!

We need to stop with the reactionary rubbish and instead look at why our nation breeds people with such horrific problems.

This is the stupidest thing i've ever heard, why don't you just tell parents to never take pictures of their kids cause heaven forbid that a pedophile find their "family" website on the interent. I think a school has a responsibility to protect the kids, but there is only so much a school can do and this is going overboard of what their responsibility is.

It's a ridiculous proposal. Paedophiles are mercifully few in number, so they're not much of a threat to the vast majority of children.
But in any case, why would they bother getting hold of nativity play footage? This isn't the kind of material they're supposedly interested in. If it was on a website, what would make that website 'sick'? Only the inclusion of other material. If the kids really were at threat, the official on-sale pictures the school is providing would surely be even worse.

Why not ban children?

This is equally ridiculous!

Equally puzzled by the over reaction. Why would anybody want this footage of children for improper purposes.

Or is there some other reason? The mistaken view that the nativity play is an insult to other religions and that they really want to ban the event.

There were a large group of primary school pupils singing carols at the Arndale on the 23rd of December.

There was no body taking pictures and nobody banning anybody from taking them.

Plus there were hundreds of other children, unaccompanied by prents, going about their last minute shopping.

Nobody was bothering to film them either though everyone would, of course, be on the CCTV.

I suppose we shall all have to sign consent forms in case the security staff sell the pictures to a porn site.

Stupid stupid stupid. Way to go to whip up hysteria, and hammer another nail in the coffin age of innocence. Talk about paranoid!

There have always been perverts around, and sadly they have always managed to find ways of ketting their kicks. But they're in the minority, and I doubt very much they'd be seeking out pictures of children acting out Bible scenes, when they've got an sad wealth of sicko stuff more to their taste on the Internet.

Depriving parents (and the children) of a record of special moments is just puerile and, in my opinion, cruel.

As for staff taking the pictures - with maybe 20 kids onstage, how will one or two teachers hope to catch the high points in each child's performance. If I wanted to take photos of my children at a moment when I was immensely proud of them, no ridiculous knee-jerk rule would prevent me. What do the silly people at this school think parents will DO with the photos? It's not like they're going to blow up the pictures of their own kids to poster-size and paste them to a wall in a public toilet, for goodness' sake! Get a grip!

I think we can go too far, too quickly, I have always recorded my childrens activities at their school. I have three children. They enjoy watching themselves as we, as a family, enjoy watching the tapes when they are older.

Maybe a school needs to keep a log of who is recording at a given event, then if any part of that event gets onto the internet, traceing the person responsible would be easier.

What are we to do, these so called 'people' ( animals to me!) who are called paedohpiles could take pictures of our children anywhere! We need to take reasonable precautions to prevent harm to our children, however finding the right balance is always the most difficult part.

I would like to carry on recording my children in their plays, for them, and for my wife and I to look back on when we enter later years.

I am faced with the same ridiculous situation. I am being treated almost as a paedophile purely for wanting to record precious moments of my daughter's development. Does this mean I am not allowed to discuss or describe the play in case a paedophile is luridly listening over my shoulder?

Every time I want to film or photograph my kids, whether its at the school athletics or if they are performing on a stage your told you cant! why not?? It's not like there are other kids walking around in skimpy costumes or naked, this is absolutely pathetic!

We should be able to capture and keep these precious moments forever, without the fear of being stigmatized and frowned upon like we are some sort of paedophile.

I am starting a campaign as we will have no memories of our children when they get older.

Even when you do film or photograph other people look at you as if your some sort of threat.
I think that we should challenge all schools and authorities who prevent us recording these precious memories of our loved ones.



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