Pictures on Twitter?

[Anonymous]

My child's teacher has a Twitter account and she frequently post pictures of students. Is this allowed?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My child's teacher has a Twitter account and she frequently post pictures of students. Is this allowed?

Did you sign the photo release from the county at the beginning of the year?

[Anonymous]

"Hey Teacher. Could you please blur my child's face when you post pictures on Twitter?"

Use your words.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My child's teacher has a Twitter account and she frequently post pictures of students. Is this allowed?

Did you sign the photo release from the county at the beginning of the year?

This. Teachers have the list of who is and isn't allowed to be in pictures.

Volunteers are expressly not allowed to post photos, because they don't have the list. Staff are different.

[Anonymous]

You have to opt out. If you didn't sign anything your child's teacher has permission.

[Anonymous]

Yes, they are allowed unless you opt out. You can opt out at any time. It goes into the student information system.

[Anonymous]

Check your school’s photo release form. Even if you didn’t opt your child out, chances are that you granted the school permission to use photos. That permission does not automatically transfer to an individual teacher’s social media unless the release specifically says so.

[Anonymous]

Did you not read the SR&R document?

You gave your child’s school principal the power to decide all videos and photos taken during the school day (academic and non-academic) when you signed this document.

If your child’s principal is aware of the Twitter account, you are out of luck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did you not read the SR&R document?

You gave your child’s school principal the power to decide all videos and photos taken during the school day (academic and non-academic) when you signed this document.

If your child’s principal is aware of the Twitter account, you are out of luck.

You can sign both the SR&R and the photo opt out.

[Anonymous]

OP that sounds really, really annoying. Tell her you do not give her permission to post pictures of your child on social media. I'm not sure how this is allowed by the school either...

[Anonymous]

FCPS gives themselves fairly broad coverage to use photos of your child unless you opt out.

Student Photographs and Video Images: Your child may be photographed or video
recorded by FCPS staff members or by vendors working for FCPS for use within FCPS for
FCPS education-related activities, including but not limited to, student identification
pictures or video recordings of classroom activity used for teacher training or student
evaluation purposes. In addition to these internal uses, FCPS may disclose photographs of
your child to the public as directory information for such uses as school yearbooks. FCPS
also may disclose your child’s image, name or voice in FCPS photographic productions or
other FCPS-sponsored publicity, including social media. In addition, news media may be
invited into a school, which may result in your child’s image appearing in news coverage
(in video or print media such as TV, radio, online, or print stories about FCPS).

https://www.fcps.edu/system/files/forms/2023-08/2023-24_k-8_opt-outbooklet.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My child's teacher has a Twitter account and she frequently post pictures of students. Is this allowed?

I love that this is something you are just questioning now in May.....

[Anonymous]

Why wouldn't this be allowed? I get some people might not even want their child's anonymous visage to appear, either because of personal preference or an actual need (e.g. witness protection program), but for the vast majority of families this seems like a fairly mundane thing.

[Anonymous]

If the event is outside, it's in the public and a release is not required.

[Anonymous]

Is this her personal account? Is she retweeting photos shared by the school?