These disabled children were deprived of the right to appear in the class photo. In a primary school located in Aberdeenshire, in the north of Scotland, a proposal made to parents caused a scandal.
As reported The independent In an article published on March 30, parents of this school with a center dedicated to the needs of disabled children received a very unpleasant surprise. When they received the class photo, they received not one but two links to download the photo. The first included all children, while the second included them disabled children did not appear. A nine-year-old boy with cerebral palsy and Wheelchair noticeably disappeared from the second photo.
“One of the cruelest things I have ever experienced”
Shocked, the students’ parents refused to purchase the photos. Many of them immediately wrote to the school asking for explanations. The independent reports in particular the testimony of the mother of the little girl in the wheelchair, who declared:
“Giving people the opportunity to erase my daughter from history is frankly inhumane. It’s one of the cruelest things I’ve ever experienced. Myself and the other parents are absolutely devastated. »
Another woman, mother of twins from two different classes, one of whom is disabled, explained that she had received A proposal photo for one, and two photos for the other. The twin sister of the disabled child was “devastated” :
“It was difficult to deal with it as a family. As a mother, I want to defend her and letting people think she’s erasable is just devastating. »
The school clears customs, an investigation has been opened
How could such a situation happen? Always second The independentthe photographer who took the two photos had been commissioned by the company Storm photography. Contacted by the students’ parents, the municipality apologized and assured that the school was not aware of either the photo shoot taking place or the existence of these two connections. The society Storm photography for its part, it declared that it had opened an investigation.
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