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A council has apologised after parents were offered a choice of class photos with or without children with complex needs in them.

Parents at Aboyne Primary complained after being sent a link from a photography company offering them alternative pictures.

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[-] dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 29 points 8 months ago

I was watching some TV show, maybe CSI SVU or maybe some English crime procedural, where the parents were brought in to talk about their son physically abusing a special needs person. It turned out the parents photoshopped out the special needs person from the class photo, and that was used as evidence that they encouraged his discriminatory behavior. I was thinking while watching the show that those are some real fucking assholes for photoshopping out someone from a school photo before they would display it in their home.

Turns out it was something real people do.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 23 points 8 months ago

You know the only reason the company offered this option was because they had been asked by other parties.

[-] lud@lemm.ee 10 points 8 months ago

Btw, who displays class photos at home?

Why would you want a bunch of random kids on your wall?

[-] Microw@lemm.ee 17 points 8 months ago

With a couple I know, they had the class photo of one of their sons at the fridge one year. Seemed weird to me too, so I asked. Turns out the son had wanted to hang it because he had always had trouble with fitting in in previous schools, and this was the first time he really was friends with those kids and invited them over as well.

That seemed like a good reason to me personally.

[-] lud@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago

That's wholesome

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org -1 points 8 months ago

Whoever downvoted this: you fucking suck.

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