[arista]

In Todays Independent

Debated on
the Full One Hour
newspaper review
only on GBnewsHD 11PM Live
then 2AM and 5AM


Was on TV and Radio debates yesterday.


The Photo Fella
sent his email to a lady who has a disabled child
with 2 options.

Some other Schools Contract Photographers
have removed kids in wheelchairs.



So he slipped up

This School below
have stopped the Contract.


Aboyne Primary School - Scotland

https://www.theguardian.com/educatio...m-school-photo

https://news.sky.com/story/aboyne-pr...needs-13103760

[Mystic Mock]

Did I just read that correctly? There's no way that can be real.

[Ammi]

…in chat and games section…?…


Parents share anger as Scottish school erases children with complex needs from photos



PARENTS have received an apology from a Scottish council after a photography firm offered alternative pictures with or without children with “complex” needs.

A photographer working for Tempest Photography took two separate photos of the P5 class at Aboyne Primary School in Aberdeenshire, with children with additional support needs (ASN) reportedly removed from one set.

Parents were then sent a link with both versions to choose from.

Aberdeenshire Council has since apologised to parents, stating the decision was not taken by the school and has immediately removed the link to the photos.

Meanwhile, Cornwall-based Tempest Photography – which employs local photographers to take school photos across the UK – said it had launched an investigation into the matter.

Natalie Pinnell, whose daughter Erin was among those excluded from a set of photographs, told the Press and Journal it felt like having her child “erased from history”.

She told the paper: “I am absolutely heartbroken. Furious.”

She added: “A lot of the other parents have decided not to purchase their school photos in support. That means a lot.

“To give people the option to erase my daughter from history for the sake of optics is frankly inhumane. One of the cruellest things that I’ve ever experienced.

“Me and the other parents just feel devastated beyond belief.”

Pinnell also said the school was not aware of the decision to take two sets of photos and immediately investigated once alerted by parents.

A second parent, Lisa Boyd, also told the newspaper her daughter Lily, a wheelchair user, was removed from an alternative photo, with the nine-year-old’s twin sister devastated.

Tempest Photography said: “We are currently investigating the situation with the school, and have no further comment.”

Aberdeenshire Council said: “We are aware that following Aboyne Primary School’s recent school class photographs, links to purchase the pictures included images with and without complex needs provision pupils.

“Whilst this was not a decision taken by the school, we absolutely appreciate the distress and hurt this has caused some parents and carers and we are sincerely sorry.

“The issue has been taken up with the photography company directly as this is totally unacceptable.”

The council added: “Aboyne is an inclusive school and every single child should be included, engaged and involved in their learning and school experiences.”

The PA news agency has asked Tempest Photography and Aberdeenshire Council for additional comment.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/parents-sh...084915853.html

[bots]

anything can be manipulated in a photo

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

anything can be manipulated in a photo

…yeah, children can obviously be added to class photos if they were absent on the day that the photographer came…they’ll just take an image from a previous photo and edit it in…

[Ammi]

…it would be interesting to know more about this story tbh…but very unfortunate decision or alternative photo to offer parents…I’m hoping that no parent said ‘yes please’ to that one with some pupils removed…

[Oliver_W]

The hell?!

Wtf is wrong with people?

[arista]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…it would be interesting to know more about this story tbh…but very unfortunate decision or alternative photo to offer parents…I’m hoping that no parent said ‘yes please’ to that one with some pupils removed…

Of course some parents
did remove the Disabled Children

Thanks to the Photo Fella's option.

That Contract now stopped

[arista]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

The hell?!

Wtf is wrong with people?

It was on all the News yesterday.

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by arista

It was on all the News yesterday.

Oh I'm sorry, I missed yesterday's episode of The News.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by arista

Of course some parents
did remove the Disabled Children

Thanks to the Photo Fella's option.

That Contract now stopped

…school photographers are quite often recommended by other schools in the area so one school no longer using them can lead to others doing the same…I feel the impact of this on the business will be a lot bigger than just one school decision…

[Ammi]

…we have had situations of ‘option class photographs of this one or that one ’…but for entirely different reasons…

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

anything can be manipulated in a photo

…you have no idea how long it can take for a staff member to approve an ID photo……

[Gusto Brunt]

This is outrageous.

Evil minds at play.

Hitler would be proud.

[Ammi]

…a statement from the photographers…

[Crimson Dynamo]

Are Tempest not the largest supplier of rip off school photos?

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…it would be interesting to know more about this story tbh…but very unfortunate decision or alternative photo to offer parents…I’m hoping that no parent said ‘yes please’ to that one with some pupils removed…

….as I said earlier, it would be interesting to know full context to all of this …this is just one trust pilot review so it’s in no way representative…and overall, their rating isn’t great at all…it’s very low…

I have always found this company to be…
I have always found this company to be very good and efficient. They always follow the direction of the school's requests to the letter. So, with this in mind, I would question who is actually to blame in the recent incident. And, even if it were the photographer, why didn't any of the staff question what he was doing? I suggest people find out the facts before becoming keyboard warriors on here with their assumptions. I would like to add that whoever is at fault, whether it is member of staff or the photographer (not the company as this is not their ethos), then they themselves should publicly apologise for this unacceptable behaviour.
Date of experience: 29 March 2024


…but it feels like there are some missing links here with this story … because to offer this option would be so like ending their own business and they surely would know that…

[Cherie]

Its pretty disgusting to offer two different photos, that said I have experienced this when my younger son was getting his first holy communion, there was a profoundly disabled girl in a wheelchair also getting hers and she attended the pre communion sessions and one of the Mums didnt want her in the group and tried to ensure her daughter was not in the same group as this little girl when she took her communion

[arista]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Are Tempest not the largest supplier of rip off school photos?

Yes they are


But that school did not know it was a
Slick Sub-Contractor doing the Photos
that offers a clever
Remove the Disabled Kids
by clicking a fast click.

Done all over the UK.
ITV1NewsHD and SkyNewsHD found out.

[arista]

He should not have sent the Link
to that nice mother who has a disabled girl.

Some parents will be angry now
they have to buy a photo
with Disabled kids in it.

Sign Of The Times.

[arista]

"I have always found this company to be very good and efficient."


Yes Ammi they are Professional Photographers
printing the photo is not cheap anymore.