Should we include or avoid child activity photo for parent referral page?

[Anonymous]

Hi we’re trying to prepare the 2 parent referral page for DC and plan to paste some photos showing DC doing activities, it will show DC’s face. Is it ok or should we avoid it since it reveal our race? Thanks,

[Anonymous]

You could always blur out the face to hide identity.

[Anonymous]

I don't think it matters one way or another. FWIW, the packets are not retained and will be destroyed at the end of this cycle (application and possible appeal) so there's no need to worry about any information potentially gong anywhere else after submitting it, whether pictures or work samples or any information submitted from a psychologist, for example.

[Anonymous]

Thank you!

[Anonymous]

Personally I would avoid unless there's a way to crop out your child's face.

[Anonymous]

Don’t include photos of kid doing activity. Rather show the critical thinking or thought process kid got to outcome. Result photo is ok but usually doesn’t need kid in photo. A kid in photo is using real estate ineffectively. You need to use space that exhibit exceptional advanced thinking. Look at fcps aap Twitter. It’s an awesome feed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don’t include photos of kid doing activity. Rather show the critical thinking or thought process kid got to outcome. Result photo is ok but usually doesn’t need kid in photo. A kid in photo is using real estate ineffectively. You need to use space that exhibit exceptional advanced thinking. Look at fcps aap Twitter. It’s an awesome feed.

+1. Plus, cringe. What does a photo of your kid doing homework, playing and instrument or playing a sport do? Show you have a cute kid?a big part of Varsity Blues was the inclusion of photos of kids doing activities the didn’t participate in in real life.

Pages with photos of the kid with his geography bee trophy, or whatever, should be shredded before they are seen by the committee. They don’t “prove” anything and they do play into unconscious biases based on race, sex, national origin, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don’t include photos of kid doing activity. Rather show the critical thinking or thought process kid got to outcome. Result photo is ok but usually doesn’t need kid in photo. A kid in photo is using real estate ineffectively. You need to use space that exhibit exceptional advanced thinking. Look at fcps aap Twitter. It’s an awesome feed.

Thanks a lot for your suggestion and information, it’s very helpful, maybe we can find something from DC’s take home folder or ask him to write something. Thank you again!

[Anonymous]

You want their thinking and definitely no photos of them. Photo examples I used were a variety of “robots” my child build and I typed his thoughts on his robots next to the pictures. He also used to make paper airplanes and design them very specifically so I took pictures of them and included his thoughts on the names of each plane, how he made them, and why they flew the way they did (IE the plane named Lightning was folded long ways and a straight point and it was the fastest plane).
In the end, I don’t think samples matter much anymore. I think it’s all about the GBRS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don’t include photos of kid doing activity. Rather show the critical thinking or thought process kid got to outcome. Result photo is ok but usually doesn’t need kid in photo. A kid in photo is using real estate ineffectively. You need to use space that exhibit exceptional advanced thinking. Look at fcps aap Twitter. It’s an awesome feed.

+1. Plus, cringe. What does a photo of your kid doing homework, playing and instrument or playing a sport do? Show you have a cute kid?a big part of Varsity Blues was the inclusion of photos of kids doing activities the didn’t participate in in real life.

Pages with photos of the kid with his geography bee trophy, or whatever, should be shredded before they are seen by the committee. They don’t “prove” anything and they do play into unconscious biases based on race, sex, national origin, etc.

We don’t know what to include since DC doesn’t have award or certificate so we were thinking about pictures showing he doing volunteer work, and sports he does. Thank you we now know it’s not good we won’t use any pictures.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You want their thinking and definitely no photos of them. Photo examples I used were a variety of “robots” my child build and I typed his thoughts on his robots next to the pictures. He also used to make paper airplanes and design them very specifically so I took pictures of them and included his thoughts on the names of each plane, how he made them, and why they flew the way they did (IE the plane named Lightning was folded long ways and a straight point and it was the fastest plane).
In the end, I don’t think samples matter much anymore. I think it’s all about the GBRS.

Thank you those are great ideas! DC loves to “create” stuff too but we never thought much and a lot of things went to recycle bin. Hopefully we can find something to use.

[Anonymous]

Have kid do mind map of what he finds interesting in volunteer work or write pros/cons list to show his thinking of volunteer work. Ctr doesn’t care about photo. They believe he does volunteer work. They want to see exceptional and critical thinking. What reflections and connections can kid make that are abstract or shower higher level if thinking. Don’t do photos of kid.

[Anonymous]

You can always have kid spend time creating something for packet. It doesn’t have to be specific to school work.

[Anonymous]

We used samples with photos of our child. His Grandparents live far away and we like to send pictures of his doing activities so we had taken pictures of his building marble runs with all sorts of different toys and bit, most not marble run pieces. He wanted to make a video for his Grandparents of how the marble run worked. So we had pictures of the different stages of construction. We put in three pictures of his building and one of the final product. We wanted to show his construction and used his language from the video for the various captions next to the pictures.

We did not blur out his face or anything along those lines. We are white so I doubt that knowing his race helped him much.

[Anonymous]

It’s OP, thank you and we really appreciate all your great help, we are glad we came here ask first so we can submit something appropriate and much better rather than making mistakes.