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My bosses agreed to posting pictures on their private photo page.

Honestly it is so hard to fully keep your child off social media. Other preschool parents will take pictures and post them. People in public take pictures without asking and I'm sure they get posted too. An example- we were at story time and at the end they bring out toys for the babies to play with. A mom took out her phone and snapped a few pictures of her kid playing with my nanny kid. I didn't say anything because I didn't want to make a big fuss out of it.

Sadly, I don't think in this day and age it is possible to be 100% off social media.

Seems like I'm in the minority but I have no problem with it. I love seeing shots of her playing with her friends! Now if they were posting say...her name and address in an individual picture I might feel differently.

I wouldn't and wouldn't care about saying no. To me there is no need for those pictures to be on those type of outlets. For a parent-only newsletter I would probably be okay with it. (I think). Preschools and daycares used to get by just fine without splashing pictures of kids all over the web. I understand that times have changed now, but I still think it's a bit much. I want to preserve my child's privacy as best I can.

Only for identification purposes (his cubby) and physical classroom photos. No photos on social media or for promotional purposes.

I've okayed it for school community purposes only. They have an internal Flickr account with password that they send to parents. I like seeing what they're up via the photos. I wouldn't want LO on the website or in advertisements though.

We allow it because they only post to their private FB page and at the end of each year all the pictures are deleted and parents are unfriended. I actually love seeing when they post pics of LO as we don't get photos any other way. Most photos don't show the full face either.
The school also has a strict policy of no reposting photos or posting any of your personal photos and you can't take any at the school.

We've always said no (basically every time we need to update our forms, so three times now). No repercussions. I think ours is really only to not use her face on promotional stuff, aka the website. I have no idea about individual teachers posting to their own facebook pages since I'm not facebook friends with any of them. I hope that doesn't happen.

No for social media and publications, but yes for the tadpoles app where they send us daily updates on what he's doing etc.

@MoonMoon: I did hear from a school staff member, also in charge of the school's marketing and blog, that it makes her job really difficult because there are only a handful of kids in the entire school whose parents have said no, and she's constantly trying to be careful to exclude them from class photos. I am surprised so many on here say no, considering most of LO1's school (Pre-K through 8th) say yes.

I'm curious- why does this bother so many people? I'm genuinely curious. You take your kids in public, strangers see them, it's legal to photograph other people, and children, in a public space, there are advertisements, both print and TV, with children in them everywhere. Why does your child being seen in a photo worry you more than your child been seen walking down the street? Maybe I'm an idiot (and in full disclosure I've let my daughter's face grace billboards and magazines globally), but do you really think from a photo of their smiling face, someone will find out more info about your child than they can if they really want to anyway? It seems to me, that in this digital age, this overly-saturated age of advertising, and photos of people everywhere, it doesn't present an added risk.