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u/ggibby 15h ago
Teachers post photos of their students on social media!?
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u/Klutche 15h ago
Different school definitely have different rules about it, but my little brothers have definitely had classrooms that send out permission slips on the first day for the kids images to be used on their social media.
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u/SableMink 12h ago
Very solid and not to mention, think this. How do those school yearbooks get all those candid photos? I work in printing, you wouldn't believe how much is posted on social media.
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u/thetalkingcure 12h ago
as an elective in photography in hs, we also had an opportunity to work on the yearbook. we took those pics, and no- they didn’t go on social media
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u/girlikecupcake 12h ago
When I was in high school the photojournalism, photography, and yearbook students would go around with cameras taking their own pictures, and students could send in pictures that they took.
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u/yellowroosterbird 11h ago
I was in yearbook club. We would just take photos on digital cameras the school specifically gave us. We absolutely did not take anything from social media or post anything.
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u/GreenArrowDC13 11h ago
My school had a weekly newspaper and our website had all the newspapers on there as well. So if you made the school news it was online for that school year. Idk how long they keep their archive.
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u/yellowroosterbird 8h ago
Oh to be fair, our high school newspaper was also online also weirdly popular in Brazil for no real reason (they could access stats on where people were logging in from to view the newspaper, and it was like 19% Brazil, 2% other countries, and the rest was from the US.)
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u/enadiz_reccos 10h ago
We had a Yearbook class that was in charge of the yearbook
Are you saying schools are pulling social media images for their yearbooks? That's kinda fucked.
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u/Existing_Abies_4101 1h ago
You also can't sign away someone elses rights to an image. So if the image they used was taken by a 3rd person (because most pictures usually are) and the school then used, and sold, that image for a year of however many people then that's a class action waiting to happen (pun wasn't intended but I'm going to pretend it was me being witty).
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u/TheNorthComesWithMe 9h ago
How do those school yearbooks get all those candid photos?
How did they do it before social media?
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u/FUBARded 12h ago
Chances are also very high that the parents signed a separate waiver/permission slip specifically for this outing at some point and just forgot about it, and that said slip included a photo release.
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u/Mike 11h ago
If this happens when my kid is in school I’ll sign it but cross out and initial any sections where they’re requesting release for social media posting. No thanks.
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u/DisastrousPilot4283 9h ago
I tried, new registration is all electronic and makes it difficult to modify.
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u/ParticularHistoryo 3h ago
When I worked in education, it was in the terms and conditions of registering your kid that photos and videos may be taken of them. Registration was digital so you are right.
I had to record my class to get my teaching license.
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u/Round-Stuff-2557 8h ago
Yep, at least where I live it is unheard of for a school to not send home these slips on day 1 of class, if not for their own public media, simply because there are kids who want to be exempted from being photographed at all for religious reasons and the school needs to know who these kids are.
It's also not super unusual for the much younger kids' classes to have some kind of social media presence because, speaking from experience, it is SO NICE to be able to direct some of the more busybody parents to it so they can see proof that we are like, doing stuff in class and not brainwashing their kids into misbehaving at home or whatever it is they convince themselves of
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u/space-hotdog 14h ago
Could be an ambiguous "her". Maybe the teacher posted a pic of herself holding the crocodile, not the student.
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u/Jupitersd2017 15h ago
Yeah and little kids hold crocodiles? I call BS
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u/AppropriateNovel7490 15h ago
Depends on location, but it’s far from unbelievable. As a little kid growing up in Florida, wildlife experts would come to schools, libraries, small town events, etc. and bring a menagerie of reptiles with them. There’s an old photo somewhere of my sister and I at a church event standing in front of a live cougar, with a huge yellow boa around our neck, while we’re holding onto a massive gator with a bunch of other kids and the animal handler. I was probably 4-5 and so were the other kids. Good times 😂
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u/Crafty-Help-4633 15h ago
Yeah. Jack Hannah came to my elementary school and let us touch a couple of the animals he brought from the Columbus Zoo long, long ago. Baby crocodiles are small, but still crocodiles. There's a lot of reasonable explanations for how this could happen.
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u/RogueAOV 14h ago
It is note worthy they post does not state 'baby' so we have to assume it was one of those massive sewer ones.
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u/Crafty-Help-4633 13h ago
Shit you're right! 13' salty in her arms for sure. Couldn't be any other way.
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u/AppropriateNovel7490 14h ago
You’re so lucky! I would have been star struck lol, I watched him every Saturday morning.
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u/EatPie_NotWAr 10h ago
Almost any gator or croc encounter led by a reputable organization would have a few babies/juveniles (think 1-1.5ft long) which they swap out to reduce stress on the animal, and the animals snout would be gently taped shut.
It can be done with literal masking tape and not even be very tight (so as to mitigate injury risk and reduce discomfort). Their muscles are weak at opening, despite the immense closing strength.
Somewhere in my phone I have a photo from this spring with my 3 year old petting one at a sanctuary/research center/hospital.
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u/basketcasey87 12h ago
Fellow Floridian ex-child checking in. Def held baby gators as a child in school. Right of passage as a Floridian...
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u/Gussie-Ascendent 15h ago edited 15h ago
It wasn't a croc but they let Me hold an alligator baby as a kid
Efit: I was gonna say thrice but them other times I was already in high school or out of it. They had some other reptiles to touch tho :3
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u/hexaflexin 13h ago
Eh, my elementary school had reptile guys come in once a year to let us pet and hold various animals, including a big yellow python. I think it's plausible that OOP saw a picture of her daughter holding a caiman or something and called it a crocodile incorrectly
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u/wannabe-myself 13h ago
I did this and worse as a kid during school 2x, once wirh Nemo Vista Elementary school on a little rock zoo field trip i held a crocodile, and on a kindergarten school trip i got to pet a tigeress and her cub. They had them on leashes like a dog. Its one of my best memories, and I credit it for my love of nature and wildlife.
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u/temp_flor 12h ago
They do tape the baby crocs mouth shut FYI. At that point a puppy will do more damage with their teeth and nails.
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u/Dear_Chasey_La1n 12h ago
Now... not in the US but China, my youngest goes to a rather known local school for all the rich kids. They build a full on little zoo for them (read 10-15 odd animals). Anyway among others a wombat. No crocodile though.
But yeah when you ask her what you've been up to, nothing. Till you check the pictures of the teachers on the app and they've been out playing with animals and what not.
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u/ArmadilloPrudent4099 6h ago
That is like the most believable part of this story. Are you so stunted in imagination that all you can picture is a 15 foot saltwater crocodile?
It's obviously a juvenile probably no bigger than your hand or forearm.
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u/MilkiestMaestro 3h ago
Well I held a crocodile and a big anaconda when I was a kid for a school thing, but the first part might be BS
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u/JimmyLipps 13h ago
My buddy’s kid goes to a school where every activity has a photo taken so the parents get daily pictures/videos of their kids working and playing with friends. I’m pretty sure it’s just the parents or guardians who can access it all.
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u/Irlandaise11 13h ago
I've had some of my kid's teachers who set up a private Instagram only for that year's parents. Iirc you had to get an invite email, or something like that.
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u/Final-Nebula-7049 13h ago
Usually requires consent, and they have apps for in school share, not social media. This school is dumb and asking for it
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u/thetalkingcure 12h ago
right i wasn’t allowed to even friend them on socials, let alone have them posting pictures of me
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u/Lighthouse_on_Mars 12h ago
I'm 40, and when I was a kid Schools absolutely posted photos of kids in quarterly pamphlets, the local newspaper, and the old school websites they had.
So this is an evolution of that I assume. 🤷♀️
Also, with both parents working in the majority of US households, There are probably parents that are happy to see candid moments of their kids from time to time.
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u/CaptainExisting499 12h ago
My coworker’s kid goes to a private school and they have private accounts for each of their grades and only the parents/teachers are given access so they can see what they’re up to and share the fun activities.
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u/AJsandwich42 11h ago
My primary school had an app called ClassDojo where all the parents got access to view their children's photos of the day without them actually being on public media like insta
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u/KennanFan 11h ago
I was required to when I was a teacher. I was given hash tags to use and had to tag the school district social media account. Teachers who didn't were accused of not being engaged enough.
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u/Commercial_Gap607 9h ago
Our teachers in South Florida post on an app called Bloomz, where the teachers give access to parents only. They would never openly post on X, Tik Tok or any of the other social media platforms.
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u/JonnelOneEye 5h ago
When my daughter was in kindergarten, they'd post the pictures, but censor the kids' faces. I could still recognize my own kid from the clothes
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u/TwinkleWinkley 14h ago
Meanwhile, if they eat a slightly different brand of chicken nugget, you'll hear about it for three hours.
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u/GENERATE-APPLICATION 14h ago
They will casually spill deeply personal family secrets to the whole class but completely forget they went to Disney World.
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u/HalKitzmiller 8h ago
We took our kids to Disney a couple of years back. When we asked what their favorite memory was of the wknd, they said it was the pool at the AirBnb
And we're in Florida, so they go to the community pool almost every week
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u/Gnarwhal8982 6h ago
Dude my kid was at a funeral telling everyone how much I fart lol.
Im talking with some people and I just turn to see him cracking up, he was 4 at the time, so I go over to him and he’s just telling everyone about “daddy’s big farts” lol.
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u/Pixie_Flame 14h ago
This is why you should instead ask your child “What was your favorite part about your day today?” And then “what was your least favorite part about your day today?” Gets convo flowing better.
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u/JamesH_670 14h ago
I asked my kids to tell me something funny that happened at school that day. I’ve gotten a lot of interesting stories.
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u/GodOfDarkLaughter 10h ago
That's a good one. Its like pulling teeth to get my kindergartner (soon to be first grader) to talk about his day. I thought this was like a TV sitcom stereotype that didn't actually happen, but it totally does. I don't remember doing that. I was a way weirder kid than he is, though.
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u/Zealousideal-Sea-684 13h ago
this works until you’re a teen. I stopped having “favorite & least favorite” parts of school once I got into middle school, & despised eating dinner at the table because all my parents ever wanted to talk about was school.
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u/Atropos_Fool 11h ago
I mean it could have been worse; you could have had parents who didn’t care about hearing about your life at all…
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u/Zealousideal-Sea-684 11h ago
obviously lol, but most kids/teenagers including myself don’t appreciate their parents until later in life. My relationship with my parents was rocky as hell until after I turned 18 & joined the army. After that we’ve been smooth sailing.
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u/SigmundFreud 9h ago
Agreed, after a certain point you just have to bite the bullet and kick your kids in the nuts until they start talking.
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u/KINGCOCO 12h ago
I try this every day with my JK son. Most of his answers are still “i don’t remember.” “i’m too tired to tell you.” “Nothing.” “Secret”, and “I’ll tell you tomorrow”.
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u/PuppyOfPower 12h ago
Do you ever tell him about your day?
Cuz if he never gets to hear about your day, then it feels less like socialization and more like an interrogation or interview or something
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u/KINGCOCO 12h ago
Yes we go around the dinner table and me and my wife both talk about our day and try to explain stuff that happened in a way he can understand and appreciate.
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u/wannabe-professor 13h ago
Similar thing happened with my kid. According to her she does the same thing at school every day. I check ClassDojo and she petting a 10ft anaconda. I asked her about it and all I got was "oh yeah, I forgot about that."
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u/RainbowDissent 6h ago
Stuff my 5yo has completely forgotten about in 2026:
- Beekeeper brought a hive, he put on a beekeeper suit, smoked the hive, and scraped honey from the comb
- Police came, sat in the police car, they 'arrested' the teacher
- Firemen came, rode the fire engine, wore the helmet, helped spray the hose
- Prominent children's author of books I've read to him visited, read a book to them
- Local restaurant owner brought oven and ingredients, taught them all to make pizza from scratch
Probably more. Only found out a couple of days via the school app.
Great school though, amazing the stuff they do for the kids.
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u/Free-Hamster462 13h ago
Man, my kid!
I ask him every day, how was school. "It was OK".
Now I have to play 20 questions with him... but I make him tell me 5 'interesting things' he did at school. Then I ask follow up questions. It takes like 5 minutes, but I swear its like you have to be a professional negotiator to get a peep out of him.
Later that night at dinner... he'll then "remember" something, and give us like a 5-minute description of the most mundane thing ever. But hey, he's at least trying to share... just doesn't quite grasp the 'what is interesting and what isn't' quite yet.
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u/I-am-fun-at-parties 11h ago
bro i am 40 and have not forgotten how annoying those 'how was school' questions were. how have you???
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u/BreakConsistent 8h ago
I mean, I'm almost forty now and if someone asked me 'how was work' I'd be chuffed as heck to tell them about how someone stole my sandwich but left the chips and cookie alone.
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u/BrightPapaya1349 6h ago
I've always hated those "how was school" questions just as much as I hate the "how was work" questions.
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u/LordHoughtenWeen 2h ago
In either case, I simply do not wish to remember. Stop trying to make me remember. Living through it once was already bad enough.
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u/PattieCakesX 10h ago
We got a packet of photos on the last day of school, which included a pic of our 5-year-old with a boa around his neck. Never said a single word.
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u/Think-Ad-5840 12h ago
Ha! I got the same surprise at the end of this year also, his teacher sends home a box of photos. Little guy met a baby gator.
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u/Catbutt247365 11h ago
Reminds me of the time daycare called because my toddler’s eyes were swollen shut and they didn’t know what caused it. Rushed to the doc, no explanation found other than that it was a reaction to an allergen. Daycare had records of all food and drink. It was a total mystery, and he was fine.
Three weeks later, we get a packet of pictures taken at daycare they had posed for Easter—and there he was, holding a bunny.
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u/ThaddeusJP 10h ago
My kids came home one day and I asked them what they had done at school. They also said nothing. I already knew that they had an all school assembly where somebody brought in animals. Owls, snakes, all manner of Woodland creature. I proceeded to say did you by chance have an assembly today with a bird? And my oldest was like oh yeah that happened.
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u/xShire_Reeve 9h ago
Sounds like what I get from my 5 year old. What did you do at school today? "Nothing". Just had a farm day at school and road a pony, nothing special.
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u/aryan_hs 7h ago
kindergarteners are built different when it comes to lying. absolute poker face, total stonewalling... and she's out here basically a zookeeper.
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u/green_ubitqitea 15h ago
Some do - I’ve known a couple of teachers whose school gave the blessing for private social media accounts that only the students and families can see. Usually for creative classes like art.
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u/Obvious_Tap_1306 13h ago
Wait why does the kid have an instagram?
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u/sender-sent-some 12h ago
Kids don't start out like this, they turn like this after they realise mom doesn't care.
All of the "Mom,mom look i drew a dog <shows scribble>" that gets "thaaats nice honey.."
I think they sort of pick up on that, well, as a kid I did; and I just stopped reporting anything.
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u/its-amadeus 11h ago
Yes, that's not interesting at all compared to all the content they watch on the Internet daily
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u/overpiar_tiality47 8h ago
omg my niece pulled the same stunt last month with a whole class pet
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u/PraireGentleman 14h ago
Sometimes people don’t want to talk about their day, but be careful this doesn’t become a habit because otherwise it’s more indicative that you’re not pleasant to talk to
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u/WantonKerfuffle 14h ago
Look, at the end of the day, when filling out my time table, I'm encouraged to write a lil comment for each entry. If I remember more than two things I did that day, that's a lot. I deployed a new company-wide VPN solution recently. Not sure I remembered that when I put in my time.
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