My email to her went through, but I doubt she read what I had to say. This was not an error in judgement. Her decision was driven by the twisted ideology we rail against here. This woman represents everything wrong in the country today. That she is in charge of young minds in an environment dedicated to "education" is alarming and unfortunate. I wonder if the system will do the right thing or just hunker down and hope this blows over. I am so sick of this crap from the government schools we pay for.
Next time, try downloading to your computer first, then upload to photobucket. That should work. For other pictures that are completely non-downloadable, do a constrained area screen-capture. On a Mac, you do that by pressing CMD/SHFT/4, then dragging the cursor which turns into a cross hair reticule, to form a rectangular box encompassing the area and then clicking when you have finished outlining the area you want. It saves the image to your desktop where you can rename it and then move it where you want to save it for future use, or then upload to your photobucket account.
BE VERY CAREFUL you do not capture and re-post any photos that are claimed to be copyrighted by Getty Images. They are relentless in pursuing absurdly high demands for royalties for using even a fraction of an inch of one of their images, no matter how modified, on the web.. . even if there is no claim of copyright on the image itself, no matter where you find it. Getty employs Google like web searching bots scouring the internet for any portion of a photo image that matches any portion of one of their photos in their catalog of millions of photos. . . and if it finds even a 1/8" by 1/8", rotated, color changed, and majorly enhanced cropped piece of one of their photos, they will send a demand letter for thousands of dollars for a license and punitive damages in lieu of a lawsuit for copyright infringement.
An office, which I manage under contract, had a web designer come in one day several years ago, un-announced, and try to sell us on his skills as a web site for our office. He had done a mock-up and uploaded it to his domain to show us. In his mock-up he had used a photo of some hills which he had changed to match our office decor colors. IWe had not impressed with his work and said no.
Three years later we received a DEMAND letter for $3600 for his use of a portion of a Getty Image because, they said, the image was used for commercial use for our benefit. t turned out the photo on the web-designer's mock-up was a portion—about a quarter—of an unattributed, and non-copyrighted attached, Getty Image which he had found somewhere on the web and had used without permission. I called the number and explained the circumstances and they did not care. As far as they were concerned, it was our office's name was on the web-site, it was on the Internet, and even though the web-site was private, the image had been used for commercial purposes (the offer to us for our use), ergo, WE owed them the money. i pointed out that we did not own the domain, had not ordered the design, had not even requested the work. Didn't matter, pay up!
Over the next five years they kept up sending demand letters. We had our in-house attorney send them a letter citing the facts and that didn't matter either. They lowered their demand to $1600. They sent it to a collections agency. Then to a law firm and raised the demand to over $30,000 under threat of lawsuit. They have never won a case in court. It is all saber rattling.
They will hunker down for sure. The most that will happen is a insincere general apology that is meaningless in wording. School Board will move her to another school thinking they solved the problem.
People forget the Military community is a very tight knit community and we don’t take this kind of stuff being done to our children well.
What needs to happen is the Military Bikers show up and circle the block with in the law all day. The VFW and AM Legion come out and condemn her actions.
Some one needs to ask why the other child with the same Military High and Tight haircut was not included. Why just this one 7 year old was the target. Did the mom make the principal mad thus making her child the Witch’s target. The Mom has not been shy about using the media.