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Subject: PC overkill for school's internet newsletter

Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/08 at 1:51 pm

Telegraph

A school has been accused of taking political correctness too far after it replaced the heads of pupils in a school newsletter with smiley faces to protect their identities.

All the children in the internet newsletter, including those in sporting and presentation pictures, have been obscured on safety grounds

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/00658/news-graphics-2008-_658237a.jpg

Subject: Re: PC overkill for school's internet newsletter

Written By: danootaandme on 11/12/08 at 3:42 pm

Childrens photos cannot be used without written consent of the parents.  It could be that one or more of these childrens parents did not give their consent for the childrens photos to be used.

Subject: Re: PC overkill for school's internet newsletter

Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/08 at 3:44 pm


Childrens photos cannot be used without written consent of the parents.  It could be that one or more of these childrens parents did not give their consent for the childrens photos to be used.
So we all hope that the children are all smiling under the smilies.

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