What would you do if this were your kid?
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kwillia
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The parent requested a retake, the photo was retaken. I would keep the re-taken photo with my kid on the bench and discard the original.
Beta
Smile!
Grow up into a supervillain and take vengeance on the teacher
It would have been nice for the class to scoot over a little bit so the students stood at the edge of the bleachers, but I'm not sure they could have done much more. Maybe put the teacher on the other side of the bleachers. I doubt anyone intended for it to be harmful.
It would have been nice for the class to scoot over a little bit so the students stood at the edge of the bleachers, but I'm not sure they could have done much more. Maybe put the teacher on the other side of the bleachers. I doubt anyone intended for it to be harmful.
nobody really
I need a nap
aw, i would hate to think it was intentional. she looks so happy, i hope they did a retake when they realized how it turned out.
kwillia
n/a
They did do a retake.
nobody really
I need a nap
I'd be terrified to have my son in a class full of kids who don’t have any faces.
not scary, he would just need a dry erase marker to draw his own.
Misfit
Lawful neutral
BlueBird
Well-Known Member
Hard to believe that in our modern age of political correctness that the school didn't think this through a little better.
kwillia
n/a
Aaaaaah, but the brain can only focus on so much politically correct things at at a time... I noticed none of the children were wearing an NRA t-shirt nor were any of them in a hoodie. The boys and girls were also noticably seated in an organized random pattern so as not to offend with over-segregation by race or sex.
I seriously and completely believe this class was funneled into the gym and quickly seated and the picture snapped without any thought of gap space between the end of the bleacher seat and the wheelchair and then the next class was funneled in to have their picture snapped.
Once it was pointed out, the wrong was righted and a retake was done.
Beta
Smile!
she??? SHE?!?!?! YOU'RE SO INSENSITIVE! IT'S A BOY! NOW GO APOLOGIZE OR FACE A LAWSUIT!
Well you know what, Dad? Keep with your whiny bull#### and he will be neither naive nor happy.
Why wouldn't they just exclaim over the picture and talk about how cute he looks and his big smile rather than make a stink? Why use their bitterness to turn their child bitter as well?
And yet that is exactly what his parents did. He's set over to the side at the end of the bench? Where were they supposed to put him?
I hate these parents.
nobody really
I need a nap
oops.
migtig
aka Mrs. Giant
It appears it took a while, if it even has been retaken yet.
I think the point the parents were making was not to ostracize special needs kids - include them. Adults tend to do this much more than kids do.
Look at that boy trying so hard to be part of the other kids and smiling so big. I want to go snatch him up and hug him and squeeze him and name him George.
kwillia
n/a
The article said the re-take was done with the boy carried and placed on the bench.
I have a really hard time believing every oversight is a slight.
BadGirl
I am so very blessed
Such a big smile on that darling little boy.
Placed in the center, with his classmates surrounding him, would have been a much better pose.
It was a bit insensitive, but likely not done intentionally. I hope the photographer takes this as a "lesson learned" and will do it right if in a similar situation again.
Placed in the center, with his classmates surrounding him, would have been a much better pose.
It was a bit insensitive, but likely not done intentionally. I hope the photographer takes this as a "lesson learned" and will do it right if in a similar situation again.
BlueBird
Well-Known Member
All good points but....
And this is the reason why the school should have thought it through a little better. I would be good with a re-take and I would move on but in the age of litigation schools can't afford to not be too politically correct and sensitive.
bcp
In My Opinion
The problem was that they set the kids up centered on the bench, for this shot they should have left the chair where it was, slid the rest of the kids down to make it look as inclusive as they could, then photoshopped the bench to even it out.
But even though I would have requested a retake, I would have understood the reasoning behind how it came to look the way it did.
But even though I would have requested a retake, I would have understood the reasoning behind how it came to look the way it did.