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Story here.
Parents in Edinburgh may be stopped from taking photos or videos of their children's nativity plays or concerts - to combat the activities of paedophiles.
The city council said parents wanting to record these events would have to get the permission of every child's family.
Education officials introduced the guidelines after claiming paedophiles across the UK had been caught in possession of photos and videos of school plays.
It follows a similar move by a school in Luton, which banned all film and digital photography at its nativity play.
Can't get my head around this at all. BIG deal in any family (which has roots in the Christian religion) when Junior gets to be Third Angel or Grumpy Innkeeper (or Sheep Number Six in the case of my lambchop of a nephew). And, these days, that means proud parents and grandparents proudly recording the proud moment.
What the Hell goes on in a Nativity Play which would make a recording of one any more likely to excite a paedophile than any other innocent filming of children doing any activity?
Supposing evil internet paedophiles (and I'm sure they are legion because I read about them all the time) do look at such film. How would a child be harmed by this?
Heard a good argument on the radio about the Luton business where some sensible woman pointed out that children need to grow wise to the actual threats they face and need to learn what is appropriate and what is inapprorpriate behaviour. She felt that this measure would make it harder for the children involved to learn properly about the boundaries of appropriate behaviour, as they must.
Maybe I am naïve and there's a perfectly cromulent argument behind this that I cannot, yet, discern. |
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