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None of us us as dumb as a committee.

Particularly a committee of school governors who in my experience haven't been well informed or professional.

They are looking for excuses to cover their backsides from any possible repercussions.

My child would be removed from that school. I would cite "recent changes to my family's Conduct and Policy Agreement (!)" How sad, the staff at that school should be utterly ashamed of their head teachers. It is offensive to all the children's parents that the school considers their own shallow and fictional explanation would not be challenged.

Not new, my sisters in London had the same problems up to FIFTEEN years ago. In Cardiff here we have had our windows smashed more than a dozen times by thugs on a "paedophile" rampage over months and months, merely because I happen to use a camera on occasion, and you must needs reflect on JK Rowling's campaign to prevent ANY child being photographed by ANYONE

(the legal implications of the ruling on her own family, which as a woman who thinks, she is well aware of. The Dementors write books, too, you know.

Of course they at the school have their own system of stupidity. Here all kids have to do R.E. at GCSE level in the local catholic school my girls attend, losing thereby one GCSE which would make them at least more employable.

Possibly the teachers now demand the same anonymity as serving police officers, in case they too, might be possible future terrorist targets.

What will happen to the "official " school photograph when already events and concerts are cancelled because organisers get told they need the signed consent of every parent of every child who attends, for example a concert at the Colston Hall, Bristol, or St. Davids hall in Cardiff. Or the millenium centres.

It is not the mad who are mad, but those who repress creativity in all its forms.We risk losing authentic photography of this entire generation.

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Well, there IS money in it. IF you suceed, you have a disgruntled but captive market. Lots of men and women all over the country with excellent clearances from the police make a living out of taking individual photographs and group, year, and class photographs at school. The widespread use of cameras by human parents is perceived by them as a threat to their business, just as the wedding photographer resents other humans at weddings with cameras- relatives especially. Perhaps one need look no further than the associates of staff at the school, nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more.......