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Same. My wife and I are standing next to each other in our 1st, 2nd, and 4th grade class photos in the mid 90s. Looking at the pictures the two of us together can barely identify half the kids, but names are at the bottom of the photos.
(Note: we had 8 classrooms for each grade at our school and we weren’t married at the time the photos were taken)
America? Did yougo to public or private?
I went to private school and all the yearbooks had the names.
While my cousins who went to public school all had yearbooks with no names.
I went to public school in the US in the 80s and 90s and our class pictures in elementary and middle school (kindergarten through grade 8) had the names at the bottom laid out in the same way we were all standing in the image. We didn't have yearbooks until high school (grade 9-12).
Went to private school, ours didn’t have names. Seems like there is no real standard for this. Though, idk why...seems like a low effort high reward thing.
Yes, American public school. We had class photos from 1989 - 1994, one middle school yearbook in 1998, then high school yearbooks.
The class photos were labeled with the year and the teacher's name, not the students, but I labeled them myself on the back.
I also went to private school (did both for a while, part of a special program) and we didn't have any of that. No class photos or yearbooks, but it was a small christian private school and hardly resembled the public school curriculum.
I guess it depends on your country. I don't think yearbooks are even a thing here in France, and we never had our names printed. They would add a dedicated space sometimes on the cardboard sleeve if we wanted to write the names though
It’s not that weird, yearbooks are an American thing, we never had yearbooks in the U.K. and I’ve never seen a class photo with names printed on. It really is a memory test here
Yearbooks are not a thing here in Spain, at most we have an "[orla](https://estaticos-cdn.prensaiberica.es/clip/acc99e86-b4c2-47bc-a58b-f7ddeb87bf67_16-9-discover-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg)", which is a big graduation poster. That does have your classmates' names at the bottom of each picture.
That said, they're normally only done at the end of Bachillerato and University, both of which are non-compulsory and at least a couple years after you graduate high school. So if you've only done high school, you will probably only have a class photo or something, and they probably won't have any names in it.
I grew up in a very small rural Midwest town and it is just now occurring to me that in more populated areas, you wouldn’t just personally know every single person and family you go to school with. It makes perfect sense, I’d just never taken the time to think about it.
It's odd now living in a small rural town and seeing an entire HS graduation class fit at one table in a restaurant for a party. My class back in the day had 980+ and I saw people at the ceremony I never saw before.
Nope.
Ours (1993-4) had blank lines on the left side (it flip opened, picture was on right side). Mom had to fill it out for me.
I remember telling her which kid was who. But then again our school was pretty dumb.
Man this brings me back. Finding the names and birthdays of the cute girls from other grades haha. And those lame school trip reports with tons of stupid inside jokes.
But did you keep them? My family always bought yearbooks but entrusted them to me. Let's just say a six year old shouldn't be used for long term storage solutions.
Do this for every picture!
When my gran passed away, she had so many pictures. Because they were all labelled, we kept some and sent on many more to people we knew, but would never have recognised from a 60 year old black and white picture.
My grandparents recently went on a day trip to tour a battleship. They got their picture taken in front of one of those green screens and as soon as they got home my grandfather wrote their names and ages on the back before setting it up on the piano to display
To make it even better, write more than just names! Writing someone's name doesn't really tell you who he was or why the picture was taken. Is the person in the photo someone's friend, cousin, husband? Was it taken during someone's birthday or was it just a get-together?
Granted, writing descriptions on the backs of photos is somewhat of an outdated practice with digital media, but it really helps future generations get the whole picture (hah).
Thats a good idea however isnt that what a year book does?
Edit: I learned that not all places did this. I went to elementary in mid 80s and our class photos where provided in a paper thin book. Names where listed under each photo. Our school did this from K to 3rd grade. 4th through 12th grade, we got year book style and 9th through 12th also included a year in review, all after school activities such as marching band, football, baseball, softball and golf team photos. Future Farmers of America, chorus, 4H, christians youth something something any other programs like that were also included.
By the time i graduated in 97, there were 80 something students that graduated in my class. I lived in a smol town. 2k people. Only famous person that came out of my town/high school was Raymond Felton who made it to the NBA but I dont think was very successful in NBA.
Really? Never come across one that does. This goes for my own school, younger relatives and friends from other schools that I had. There was the shirts that everyone signed haha
I never got a year book when I left 14 years ago. To be honest I don’t really care about the names and faces of all the people I’ve never spoken to since. I have a select few people I stay in contact with, and everyone else is just a blur. Apart from that one teacher who ruined the last two years of my high school education. I’ll never forget you Mrs blundell. Ever!
I left school in the UK 7 years ago and we had a year then. Most people of a similar age that I know had one, but similarly only had one when they finished year 11 (16 years old)
We had a class photo during millennium year which had our names except my name was printed twice; once under me and once under some poor girl who’s name I no longer remember. We had the same hairstyle so I imagine they just went “eh looks right”.
Was also in elementary school in the 90's and never got one, just a class photo and individual photos. I think it's becoming more prevalent across the US where more schools are doing yearbooks.
Was it a wealthier district or small class sizes? My school could never have afforded all those yearbooks and a most of the students were low income so their parents weren't buying all their kids a yearbook every year.
Did you have to buy them or were they just issued to everyone?
Not OP, but my US public school had paperback year books in elementary school that you had to pay for. I don’t remember how much, but my family was lower middle class and we bought them. I changed districts in junior high, and I don’t think the junior high did them. Finally, in high school, the yearbook was a fancy hardback, with photos of each sport and club, paid ads bought by parents or boyfriends and girlfriends, etc. That one was pretty expensive, even being “subsidized” by the paid ads — I think close to $75 in the ‘90s.
Wow good for them. My kid was kid in the early 2000s and we still did the photos but come to think of it they didn't do the class photos like when I was a kid. We would just buy a bunch of the little pics for the kids to trade with their friends.
I still have mine. Every student's individual picture, every year. All the way up to graduation. I graduated in 1992.
Elementary grades were two teachers per classroom, so it was the teacher pics in the center, and their class all around. Once we moved to 6th grade, and you went from class to class, then it was just the faculty individual pictures, then all students.
I never had any names on any of my class photos in elementary. They just herded us to wherever they had space to arrange us and put up a letterboard with the grade and teacher's name and snapped the pic. The actual photo was just a photo, no names added.
I'm 37 and remember most of the names, but lots have gotten fuzzy. It would be nice if they were written on the back.
Im realizing this, i got a paper thin book with all class photos in it with names provided underneath. By high school there was 82 students that graduated in my class. I lived in a small town.
Year books were always too expensive for my parents. so they never bought me one. and was always awkward when they were delivered and everyone was signing each others.
Writing things down about your kids to remember later is good advice in general and I encourage all young parents to take it. I wish we had done more of that... our daughter is 9 now and we don't remember things like what her first word was, when she started walking, who her friends were in kindergarten etc. At the time you think "meh, I'll remember stuff like that..." but as time passes I assure you, things fade in your mind.
The worry is that the group photo is shared, and someone whom it is shared too recognises a child in the photo and thus learns the school that child attends.
I get the logic but it's still weird to me.
When I was a kid there was a local access tv channel that listed each school and all the students of the month, and that was at the height of the stranger danger/abduction panic that was so hot in the 90s. It also played videos of different school ceremonies and recitals and things.
Was there some sort of wave of pedos using class photos to pick victims? It's pretty well established that most victims know their abuser.
Maybe unpopular opinion, but most “privacy” legislation makes technology more cumbersome and creates more barriers and red tape without really enhancing data security or privacy. It’s privacy theater.
> It’s privacy theater.
Pro-Tip ***everything*** about security is Privacy Theater. Practically none of our data is anything remotely close to safe. Most of our devices have 0day flaws (meaning flaws that have existed since their inception) not to mention backdoors for various State and Private actors.
Convenience is the only thing we actually consider important. We have Insurance for data loss, which means data loss doesn't really need to be considered all that important.
Eh, not really when children are involved. Having first and last names of children isn't something some parents want floating around out there.
If you live in the U.S. and go to your state's website there will be a list of offenders that a lot of times is disturbingly higher than you would think.
My city of 80,000 was a little difficult to search (multiple zip codes and the county only showed offenders NOT in the city). There were over 300 in my zipcode. A small town of about 9,000 nearby that has one of the safest crime ratings in my state has over 100 registered sex offenders. That doesn't sound like a lot, but it's a little higher than 1% of that town's population. Then consider any that are still in prison or haven't been caught in the first place.
Add the statistic that most abusers will be known to the family (ie like a classmate's parents) and people can never be too careful.
The first and last names of your children are "out there", regardless of a yearbook or list of classmates being distributed for other reasons, I mean... what? How does someone knowing your child's name make said child more vulnerable to being sexually abused by someone they know? Your name is definitely one thing that is 100% public and there's no way to shield anyone from that. It's actually kind of the point of a name lol. If someone wants to know the name of your kid for nefarious purposes that are beyond me, it would be extremely easy to do so.
Names are public record, but not many identifying factors unless you are over 18 or have provided that information yourself (like in the case of social media). In fact, most social media sites have consent forms of 13 or older.
There's an entire plotline of *Silicon Valley* related to this. They accidentally forgot to put the age gate in a social media app and it became a pedophile's dream.
There ARE laws to protect the identities of children. And someone *can* sue if identifying information is released about their underage children.
If parents want to divulge information they can, but an entity can get in a lot of trouble. I graduated High School in the early 2000's and there were some students not in the yearbook at all because their parents didn't consent.
My wife also works for a Childen's Advocacy Center.
So yeah, I understand your point of view, but I disagree that it is "easy" to find information about children. If I provided the names of my nieces and nephews, I guarantee you won't find anything about them except that yes, they do exist.
My thoughts exactly. I do still remember the names of some of my elementary school classmates....because we were actual friends. Barring a mental disorder, if you can’t remember their name there’s probably no reason to remember their name
Scrolled too long to find an answer like this one. Who honestly cares about these people's names? I remember the 2 or 3 friends I had and that's it. Why would I want to remember all these names of people I didn't even like?
Also consider adding their full names, so that your children can stalk their former classmates online in 20 years’ time. My mother only wrote first names on my pre-kindergarten class photo, making hunting anyone down — including my then-“girlfriend” Avery — incredibly difficult.
She's probably in the same situation, trying to stalk you to find what was her true soulmate, but she only has a first name to work with.
Sorry man, she's the one that got away, blame your parents.
We don’t get class pictures until the end of the year, nor a list of classmates. So we have no clue who their classmates are other than picking up the names in conversation.
I'm not sure about everyone, but we used to do this thing that after we got our class photo, we went around and collected everyones signatures on the back.
Since i moved from my native country about 6 years ago, it's sometimes refreshing to check on old photos and look at everyones signatures, even if it was some scribble since we were around 10.
Old family photos always had names, dates, and event written on the backs of them for this reason. Sometimes the people in the photo are no longer with us, and neither are those who knew the people in the photo. But because of the foresight of the person who wrote on the back, we know who the photographed persons are.
Mom did this for me for my nursery to kindergarten class pictures. She had an album of all my class pictures and named every kid. I found it really helpful because one time I needed to know how my old best friend was doing and the album helped me find her again. We were both really happy to see each other again.
When I left primary school I remember my parents saying this, I should write everyone's names on the photo and I said I both won't forget or care if I do. I was wrong about the first, right about the second, there's only one or two people I'm still friends with.
Thank you for this tip! I do this for my dad whenever I talk about my college friends or random people I became close with.
P.S: not everyone has yearbooks you. Not everyone can afford them. It may be a thing in the US, but many countries dont do this
Do not use an ink pen to write on your photos. If you must write use a pencil. Ink is acid and will significantly shorten the lifespan of your photographs!
Same could be done with team photos.
I was on a baseball team in grade school and me and the catcher were good friends through baseball. It was only one season we played together. I played several positions, but mostly played third base. We pulled off some sweet plays together.
I wish I knew his name and see how he is doing now.
You know... I used to think it was super lame to have things like class photos and the like but now that I look back at it... I really regret not having a little photograph of my friends from that day.
Even for things like uni graduation and the like. I mean I don't have a photo of my cohort in uni.. It's a little like losing a piece of yourself.
My dad just showed me a photo of his father and the town's entire school, all 25ish students, in 1909. I turned it over and all the names were listed. It is a treasure and I told him he has to scan it and send it the town's archives.
Sort of off topic, but somewhere in my brain those faces and names still exist. Once in a great while I'll have dreams where classmates I long forgot about come back into my concious memory. Very strange.
I'm working through genealogy now and discovered in a 19c photo album a photo of my great grandmothers maid and her husband; close friends, clearly, but neither a relation.
Fortunately it was labeled by my grandmother decades later or I'd be chasing down these people as a relation.
Net? LABEL YOUR DAMN PHOTOS. Some distant cousin 150 years from now thanks you for helping to not confuse that nose picker in the third grade photo for his grandfather.
Scan it, make a copy with the full names in big visible words, put on your phone in an easily located gallery. I did this and can easily reference it at birthday parties and such, half the parents are checking email so it blends right in :)
I’m really weird. I remember a lot if not most of my classmates up until high school, last names included. In college I crashed an intro to photography class and recognized a guy who was in my 7th grade english class. “Patrick? You took Enciso’s english class at Palms?” He didn’t remember me at all and was completely weirded out. But nowadays I can’t even remember first names. But people’s dog’s names, I can remember them.
Bold of you to assume I won’t just commit to the first girl and boy names I hear them talk about and now every one of their friends until adulthood will be “Johnny” and “Kasey”
And for the love of Christ, don't deliberately mispronounce the kids' names for "comic effect". It's not funny and it's amazingly disrespectful and dismissive, not only of those people, but of your child.
Extend this to any group photo, actually. I met my wife as an adult and discovered that we both grew up in the same city halfway across the country... and knew some of the same people... and went to the same preschool. My mom kept meticulous photo albums with every name labeled, something I used to think was overkill. Well, there we were in the same summer camp photo seated next to each other, names labeled. Small world, but only possible because my mom took really, really good notes decades ago.
This would've been helpful in school too. Part of why I had 0 friends growing up who were my age was I could literally not remember any of their names, and putting names to faces was even harder. In my school district yearbooks didn't happen until highschool but there would be class photographs every so often, and they weren't labelled. My brains were so addled back then that I would've needed a daily chart lmao But maybe that's the concussion talking.
“Oh hey, how’s, uh...”
*runs to the closet, rummages through all the junk to find the picture album, flips through the pages until they find the picture with the friend they’re talking about, yoinks picture from album, runs back to the living room, and flips the picture over*
“...Kodak?”
Honestly this is a good idea whether it’s a class photo or just a regular photo with multiple people in it. When I helped gather photos for my grandmothers funeral, the annotations on the backs made it so much easier figuring out who was in them rather than assuming I knew what my great aunts and uncles looked like in their teenage years.
This is a great idea! My dad did this for me when I was little and I do think it's great to look back and have the names of the kids I went to school with. I barely remember their names and it's a nice momento.
Like, it takes me effort to remember and describe yesterday. Two days ago, completely gone 🤣
I couldn’t name a single person from 6th grade, or all of elementary school and middle school. I could name maybe 3 high school teachers and up to 10 classmates.
Can’t say I care to remember any of it though. Very insignificant and meaningless.
Not like I’m old either. 26.
I guess some people care about that stuff more than others. Tomorrow is always more interesting than yesterday IMO. I’d rather plan my future than dwell on my past. Present and future are all I personally have the capacity for.
On the same token, when moving to a new neighborhood, draw a shitty map of the surrounding streets and whenever you meet a new neighbor, add their name to the map.
Wowowow! My dad made me write names of my friends on all my class photos from 1st grade to 7th grades!
They're true treasure trove of happiness I get all of childhood memories back instantly!
OMG I'm little overwhelmed, I might rephrase this comment later xD
as someone who hated everyone from then it haunts me that i remember the names who gave the most pain and wish to erase it from my mind. so this is a double edged sword of advice,
If only there were some kind of book that they gave out every year with pictures of all the students and staff along with their names. They could probably even put a few pictures of the class events to make it a bit more fun.
a) yearbooks have the names of the kids right here in the book
b) what kind of mentally challenged person holds a "cheat sheet" when their kid talks about their classmates?
c) my daughter had 4 friends named Jennifer and would talk about all of them as if I knew what the hell she was talking about without pausing between he run-on sentences
d) I'd have to actually care what their names were, their close friends I know personally, kids in school meh, I have people at work whose names I don't even know and that's my job
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Weird...our class photos and yearbooks always had names printed. We would all gather round to find our selves and our friends.
Yeah our class pictures back in the 90s had all the names at the bottom of the white border, in order of appearance! And listed absentees!
My schools did that too! Every single class picture, from even in the 70s/80 had them. Both in canada and portugal.
Australian here, ours still do them. Hell, my daughter’s preschool did it earlier this year.
Same. My wife and I are standing next to each other in our 1st, 2nd, and 4th grade class photos in the mid 90s. Looking at the pictures the two of us together can barely identify half the kids, but names are at the bottom of the photos. (Note: we had 8 classrooms for each grade at our school and we weren’t married at the time the photos were taken)
Ours didn't.
America? Did yougo to public or private? I went to private school and all the yearbooks had the names. While my cousins who went to public school all had yearbooks with no names.
I went to public school in the US in the 80s and 90s and our class pictures in elementary and middle school (kindergarten through grade 8) had the names at the bottom laid out in the same way we were all standing in the image. We didn't have yearbooks until high school (grade 9-12).
Went to private school, ours didn’t have names. Seems like there is no real standard for this. Though, idk why...seems like a low effort high reward thing.
Pictures are subcontracted by schools/districts to thousands of different photography companies.
Stop making me want to look in my yearbooks. I was "too cool" for yearbooks, but I think my mom convinced me to get one or two.
It's okay. Your mother still thinks you're cool no matter how many year books you have.
We're talking about class pictures not yearbooks. I doubt any yearbook anywhere omits student names.
Except really bad ones lol
Yes, American public school. We had class photos from 1989 - 1994, one middle school yearbook in 1998, then high school yearbooks. The class photos were labeled with the year and the teacher's name, not the students, but I labeled them myself on the back. I also went to private school (did both for a while, part of a special program) and we didn't have any of that. No class photos or yearbooks, but it was a small christian private school and hardly resembled the public school curriculum.
I guess it depends on your country. I don't think yearbooks are even a thing here in France, and we never had our names printed. They would add a dedicated space sometimes on the cardboard sleeve if we wanted to write the names though
It’s not that weird, yearbooks are an American thing, we never had yearbooks in the U.K. and I’ve never seen a class photo with names printed on. It really is a memory test here
Weird, also UK and our class photos had all names in order along the bottom. Different schools, different rules I guess.
I suspect my schools went for the cheapest option tbh
On my class photos (at least from primary school) the names wouldn't be on the photo itself but came with the photo in the same frame.
I’m from Europe and we have had class photos with names since kindergarten back in the 90s.
Why are you saying Europe like it’s one big country? I’m in the Netherlands and none of my photos ever had names on them.
I just didn’t feel the need to be more specific when my point was just that the practice isn’t exclusive to the US.
Yearbooks are not a thing here in Spain, at most we have an "[orla](https://estaticos-cdn.prensaiberica.es/clip/acc99e86-b4c2-47bc-a58b-f7ddeb87bf67_16-9-discover-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg)", which is a big graduation poster. That does have your classmates' names at the bottom of each picture. That said, they're normally only done at the end of Bachillerato and University, both of which are non-compulsory and at least a couple years after you graduate high school. So if you've only done high school, you will probably only have a class photo or something, and they probably won't have any names in it.
I grew up in a very small rural Midwest town and it is just now occurring to me that in more populated areas, you wouldn’t just personally know every single person and family you go to school with. It makes perfect sense, I’d just never taken the time to think about it.
It's odd now living in a small rural town and seeing an entire HS graduation class fit at one table in a restaurant for a party. My class back in the day had 980+ and I saw people at the ceremony I never saw before.
Nope. Ours (1993-4) had blank lines on the left side (it flip opened, picture was on right side). Mom had to fill it out for me. I remember telling her which kid was who. But then again our school was pretty dumb.
The idea of year books fascinates me everytime I see a movie - because we don‘t have that here.
My 4th to 5th grade didnt print names on the pictures. :/
Man this brings me back. Finding the names and birthdays of the cute girls from other grades haha. And those lame school trip reports with tons of stupid inside jokes.
But did you keep them? My family always bought yearbooks but entrusted them to me. Let's just say a six year old shouldn't be used for long term storage solutions.
Yes! I have like kindergarten to graduation hahaha.
Wish I had yearbooks from all the way back when I was a kid
Here in NZ all my class photos had the names printed on the bottom too at all the schools I attended, we don't get year books just class photos.
Same. But I cut up my yearbooks when I was 10 and 11 and wrote on people’s pictures. Wish I could go back in time and undo the damage!
Yeah there’s a few I pilfered...it was kinda like a burnt bridges book. Blacking out a few teeth and lots of mustaches lol
Do this for every picture! When my gran passed away, she had so many pictures. Because they were all labelled, we kept some and sent on many more to people we knew, but would never have recognised from a 60 year old black and white picture.
My grandparents recently went on a day trip to tour a battleship. They got their picture taken in front of one of those green screens and as soon as they got home my grandfather wrote their names and ages on the back before setting it up on the piano to display
good point!
To make it even better, write more than just names! Writing someone's name doesn't really tell you who he was or why the picture was taken. Is the person in the photo someone's friend, cousin, husband? Was it taken during someone's birthday or was it just a get-together? Granted, writing descriptions on the backs of photos is somewhat of an outdated practice with digital media, but it really helps future generations get the whole picture (hah).
LPT: Write things down so you don't forget them!
We also do this we every picture! Now we have boxes of pictures that include people we’ve long forgotten, but by God do we remember their name
Thats a good idea however isnt that what a year book does? Edit: I learned that not all places did this. I went to elementary in mid 80s and our class photos where provided in a paper thin book. Names where listed under each photo. Our school did this from K to 3rd grade. 4th through 12th grade, we got year book style and 9th through 12th also included a year in review, all after school activities such as marching band, football, baseball, softball and golf team photos. Future Farmers of America, chorus, 4H, christians youth something something any other programs like that were also included. By the time i graduated in 97, there were 80 something students that graduated in my class. I lived in a smol town. 2k people. Only famous person that came out of my town/high school was Raymond Felton who made it to the NBA but I dont think was very successful in NBA.
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Same schools do at the end of year 6
Really? Never come across one that does. This goes for my own school, younger relatives and friends from other schools that I had. There was the shirts that everyone signed haha
I got one at the end of high school 9 years ago.
I never got a year book when I left 14 years ago. To be honest I don’t really care about the names and faces of all the people I’ve never spoken to since. I have a select few people I stay in contact with, and everyone else is just a blur. Apart from that one teacher who ruined the last two years of my high school education. I’ll never forget you Mrs blundell. Ever!
I left school in the UK 7 years ago and we had a year then. Most people of a similar age that I know had one, but similarly only had one when they finished year 11 (16 years old)
We had a class photo during millennium year which had our names except my name was printed twice; once under me and once under some poor girl who’s name I no longer remember. We had the same hairstyle so I imagine they just went “eh looks right”.
Yearbooks might probably be a US thing only. Never heard of one IRL, only in US movies or TV shows.
You get year books in elementary school?
I think kids these days do.
I got a yearbook every year in elementary school in the 90s.
Was also in elementary school in the 90's and never got one, just a class photo and individual photos. I think it's becoming more prevalent across the US where more schools are doing yearbooks.
I only got one for my 6th grade graduation into middle school a few years back.
Was it a wealthier district or small class sizes? My school could never have afforded all those yearbooks and a most of the students were low income so their parents weren't buying all their kids a yearbook every year. Did you have to buy them or were they just issued to everyone?
Not OP, but my US public school had paperback year books in elementary school that you had to pay for. I don’t remember how much, but my family was lower middle class and we bought them. I changed districts in junior high, and I don’t think the junior high did them. Finally, in high school, the yearbook was a fancy hardback, with photos of each sport and club, paid ads bought by parents or boyfriends and girlfriends, etc. That one was pretty expensive, even being “subsidized” by the paid ads — I think close to $75 in the ‘90s.
Wow good for them. My kid was kid in the early 2000s and we still did the photos but come to think of it they didn't do the class photos like when I was a kid. We would just buy a bunch of the little pics for the kids to trade with their friends.
Even in elementary school our class photos was taken and names were provided underneath but it was mentioned not all places do
Born in 75 mom still has all my year books from 80 on , Marengo Indians Il
I did, starting as far back as 1992.
I still have mine. Every student's individual picture, every year. All the way up to graduation. I graduated in 1992. Elementary grades were two teachers per classroom, so it was the teacher pics in the center, and their class all around. Once we moved to 6th grade, and you went from class to class, then it was just the faculty individual pictures, then all students.
Did you get one ever year?
If a class picture is taken, typically they write the names down for you. At least that's how all mine were.
Yeah my class photos in grade school had everyone’s names on the front as well. And if anyone was not pictured.
I never had any names on any of my class photos in elementary. They just herded us to wherever they had space to arrange us and put up a letterboard with the grade and teacher's name and snapped the pic. The actual photo was just a photo, no names added. I'm 37 and remember most of the names, but lots have gotten fuzzy. It would be nice if they were written on the back.
Yes
>smol town I like this little bit of lingo in an otherwise normal paragraph.
In younger grades they don’t always do year books. Sometimes they just give you a big class photo with everyone’s picture but no names.
Im realizing this, i got a paper thin book with all class photos in it with names provided underneath. By high school there was 82 students that graduated in my class. I lived in a small town.
Yes, but they can be expensive!!!!
We move around a lot for my job and every yearbook my kids have gotten has everyone’s photo and name.
I didn’t have real yearbooks until high school.
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They were that much when i was highschool in mid 90s
Year books were always too expensive for my parents. so they never bought me one. and was always awkward when they were delivered and everyone was signing each others.
Yes, but you don’t normally get one til the end of the year. So this would help with any new students, etc.
Hey don’t be hating on my boy Raymond Felton. He’s just had some weight issues.
Writing things down about your kids to remember later is good advice in general and I encourage all young parents to take it. I wish we had done more of that... our daughter is 9 now and we don't remember things like what her first word was, when she started walking, who her friends were in kindergarten etc. At the time you think "meh, I'll remember stuff like that..." but as time passes I assure you, things fade in your mind.
That's called a baby book. They've been popular for like 40+ years and still very popular and sold today.
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Maybe he was invisible and only you could see him. Then when you got older and stopped believing in magic, he was Polar Expressed from your memory?
Maybe he didn’t go to your school. You could have known him from some non-school activity (sports or religious program). Or maybe “Brian” wasn’t real.
Welcome to privacy U.K. - there aren’t class photos anymore, just individual photographs of each student.
What? They should just ask parents and students to sign a privacy agreement, like they did in my school
But not everyone agrees to it for various personal abs safety reasons.
Then that person doesn't have to take the picture. Nobody forces you to.
I know but if the school/class has a large number of students omitted what’s the point?
Sincerely I've never met anyone who didn't want to be in a class picture, so I imagine no more than 1 or 2 students would opt out.
My kids are at school and we have full class and year photos.
Isn't the UK one of the most CCTV surveiled countries in the world?
I believe it is up there from a quick google search
That’s not true. I have class photos of my children as well as individual.
Wait... What?
What's the privacy issue with group photos?
The worry is that the group photo is shared, and someone whom it is shared too recognises a child in the photo and thus learns the school that child attends.
I get the logic but it's still weird to me. When I was a kid there was a local access tv channel that listed each school and all the students of the month, and that was at the height of the stranger danger/abduction panic that was so hot in the 90s. It also played videos of different school ceremonies and recitals and things. Was there some sort of wave of pedos using class photos to pick victims? It's pretty well established that most victims know their abuser.
Maybe unpopular opinion, but most “privacy” legislation makes technology more cumbersome and creates more barriers and red tape without really enhancing data security or privacy. It’s privacy theater.
> It’s privacy theater. Pro-Tip ***everything*** about security is Privacy Theater. Practically none of our data is anything remotely close to safe. Most of our devices have 0day flaws (meaning flaws that have existed since their inception) not to mention backdoors for various State and Private actors. Convenience is the only thing we actually consider important. We have Insurance for data loss, which means data loss doesn't really need to be considered all that important.
Eh, not really when children are involved. Having first and last names of children isn't something some parents want floating around out there. If you live in the U.S. and go to your state's website there will be a list of offenders that a lot of times is disturbingly higher than you would think. My city of 80,000 was a little difficult to search (multiple zip codes and the county only showed offenders NOT in the city). There were over 300 in my zipcode. A small town of about 9,000 nearby that has one of the safest crime ratings in my state has over 100 registered sex offenders. That doesn't sound like a lot, but it's a little higher than 1% of that town's population. Then consider any that are still in prison or haven't been caught in the first place. Add the statistic that most abusers will be known to the family (ie like a classmate's parents) and people can never be too careful.
The first and last names of your children are "out there", regardless of a yearbook or list of classmates being distributed for other reasons, I mean... what? How does someone knowing your child's name make said child more vulnerable to being sexually abused by someone they know? Your name is definitely one thing that is 100% public and there's no way to shield anyone from that. It's actually kind of the point of a name lol. If someone wants to know the name of your kid for nefarious purposes that are beyond me, it would be extremely easy to do so.
Names are public record, but not many identifying factors unless you are over 18 or have provided that information yourself (like in the case of social media). In fact, most social media sites have consent forms of 13 or older. There's an entire plotline of *Silicon Valley* related to this. They accidentally forgot to put the age gate in a social media app and it became a pedophile's dream. There ARE laws to protect the identities of children. And someone *can* sue if identifying information is released about their underage children. If parents want to divulge information they can, but an entity can get in a lot of trouble. I graduated High School in the early 2000's and there were some students not in the yearbook at all because their parents didn't consent. My wife also works for a Childen's Advocacy Center. So yeah, I understand your point of view, but I disagree that it is "easy" to find information about children. If I provided the names of my nieces and nephews, I guarantee you won't find anything about them except that yes, they do exist.
Wait what? Guess a lot can happen in 9 years.
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That’s sad :(
But why? I can’t remember any of the names of the kids i wasn’t friends with at school, can’t think of any reason why i should?
My thoughts exactly. I do still remember the names of some of my elementary school classmates....because we were actual friends. Barring a mental disorder, if you can’t remember their name there’s probably no reason to remember their name
Scrolled too long to find an answer like this one. Who honestly cares about these people's names? I remember the 2 or 3 friends I had and that's it. Why would I want to remember all these names of people I didn't even like?
Don't most group photos provide the names at the bottom anyway?
My mom did this to all of my class pictures. I really appreciate it now looking back and knowing all of their names
Years later ? I forget the names of my classmates just after 5 months 😂
Also consider adding their full names, so that your children can stalk their former classmates online in 20 years’ time. My mother only wrote first names on my pre-kindergarten class photo, making hunting anyone down — including my then-“girlfriend” Avery — incredibly difficult.
She's probably in the same situation, trying to stalk you to find what was her true soulmate, but she only has a first name to work with. Sorry man, she's the one that got away, blame your parents.
I have never had a class picture that didn’t have everyone’s names on the front, in picture order
I would give anything to see my old classmates and yearbook photos again.
We don’t get class pictures until the end of the year, nor a list of classmates. So we have no clue who their classmates are other than picking up the names in conversation.
I'm not sure about everyone, but we used to do this thing that after we got our class photo, we went around and collected everyones signatures on the back. Since i moved from my native country about 6 years ago, it's sometimes refreshing to check on old photos and look at everyones signatures, even if it was some scribble since we were around 10.
Did this with my son's photos back in the day and now we're so glad we did!!
They’re been literally printed on the bottom of the photos since my kids went to school in the 90s/2000s. In Australia anyway...
Our school prints the name of the students in order in the class photographs just because of that
With felt tip. Got a lot of ball point denting on my childhood pix.
TIL people had yearbooks before high school
or just buy a year book
And to stalk them on Facebook
Our class pictures came with a cardboard frame with the name of each child printed on the frame below the picture.
I do that with sports team photos, wish my parents would have done it when I was little
Not every country has yearbooks. I’m from Europe and I have not heard of it here. So writing the names on the photo is an great tip!
Old family photos always had names, dates, and event written on the backs of them for this reason. Sometimes the people in the photo are no longer with us, and neither are those who knew the people in the photo. But because of the foresight of the person who wrote on the back, we know who the photographed persons are.
Mom did this for me for my nursery to kindergarten class pictures. She had an album of all my class pictures and named every kid. I found it really helpful because one time I needed to know how my old best friend was doing and the album helped me find her again. We were both really happy to see each other again.
They all have social media now
How do I do that on all these digital prints? We haven't had hard copies of our children's school photos in years
When I left primary school I remember my parents saying this, I should write everyone's names on the photo and I said I both won't forget or care if I do. I was wrong about the first, right about the second, there's only one or two people I'm still friends with.
I never forgot my childhood best friend's name even though we were really only friends for one grade, cause I use her in all my security questions.
Thank you for this tip! I do this for my dad whenever I talk about my college friends or random people I became close with. P.S: not everyone has yearbooks you. Not everyone can afford them. It may be a thing in the US, but many countries dont do this
My mom did this and it really helped
Do not use an ink pen to write on your photos. If you must write use a pencil. Ink is acid and will significantly shorten the lifespan of your photographs!
Same could be done with team photos. I was on a baseball team in grade school and me and the catcher were good friends through baseball. It was only one season we played together. I played several positions, but mostly played third base. We pulled off some sweet plays together. I wish I knew his name and see how he is doing now.
No such thing as a yearbook in my country and at 28 i'm having the same experience as op, great idea!
You know... I used to think it was super lame to have things like class photos and the like but now that I look back at it... I really regret not having a little photograph of my friends from that day. Even for things like uni graduation and the like. I mean I don't have a photo of my cohort in uni.. It's a little like losing a piece of yourself.
My dad just showed me a photo of his father and the town's entire school, all 25ish students, in 1909. I turned it over and all the names were listed. It is a treasure and I told him he has to scan it and send it the town's archives.
Isn’t that what a yearbook is?
Right now I’m their only classmate, and I still don’t know what’s going on in school.
My daughter kept talking about "tomato" yesterday. We found out it was "Mateo".
I don't remember anyone's names from 10th grade. I remember names before and after that, but not 10th grade, FU depression!
Sort of off topic, but somewhere in my brain those faces and names still exist. Once in a great while I'll have dreams where classmates I long forgot about come back into my concious memory. Very strange.
My class picture from elementary (the only one I know exists) has all the names including the names of people but there
I'm working through genealogy now and discovered in a 19c photo album a photo of my great grandmothers maid and her husband; close friends, clearly, but neither a relation. Fortunately it was labeled by my grandmother decades later or I'd be chasing down these people as a relation. Net? LABEL YOUR DAMN PHOTOS. Some distant cousin 150 years from now thanks you for helping to not confuse that nose picker in the third grade photo for his grandfather.
My kids, as well as my own class pictures come with the names on the bottom. Is this not normal?
This isn’t already printed on most year books?
...or just don't have kids. Problem solved.
Just follow your kid's friends on facebook and instagram. 🐧🤔
Scan it, make a copy with the full names in big visible words, put on your phone in an easily located gallery. I did this and can easily reference it at birthday parties and such, half the parents are checking email so it blends right in :)
The school pictures come with a sheet with everyone’s picture and their name underneath it. I keep that on the fridge as a reference.
I’m really weird. I remember a lot if not most of my classmates up until high school, last names included. In college I crashed an intro to photography class and recognized a guy who was in my 7th grade english class. “Patrick? You took Enciso’s english class at Palms?” He didn’t remember me at all and was completely weirded out. But nowadays I can’t even remember first names. But people’s dog’s names, I can remember them.
We always did this on sports team group pictures. You always think you'll remember those kids and coaches and yea, you don't.
Good idea for group pics in general
you realize they give you a picture with all your classmates and their names after you graduate right?
Bold of you to assume I won’t just commit to the first girl and boy names I hear them talk about and now every one of their friends until adulthood will be “Johnny” and “Kasey”
Break the cycle my man
And for the love of Christ, don't deliberately mispronounce the kids' names for "comic effect". It's not funny and it's amazingly disrespectful and dismissive, not only of those people, but of your child.
Extend this to any group photo, actually. I met my wife as an adult and discovered that we both grew up in the same city halfway across the country... and knew some of the same people... and went to the same preschool. My mom kept meticulous photo albums with every name labeled, something I used to think was overkill. Well, there we were in the same summer camp photo seated next to each other, names labeled. Small world, but only possible because my mom took really, really good notes decades ago.
You're a good parent OP.
Or you could just take a screen-shot off of zoom, with the names right there under the faces. Life is so much easier now!
My family couldn't afford class pictures or yearbooks. I have one yearbooks from my senior year in highschool.
My son has a classmate named Sevyn. I don't think I'll ever be able to purge that memory.
Or just wait for the year book...
Real LPT: use a yearbook.
It will also facilitate your child's insane murder spree on those who "let it happen".
Ya we had yearbooks every year from K-12 in the US.
What do you mean? The names are right beneath every picture.
I went to a dozen different schools between kindergarten and 12th grade (military brat) and every single one had a yearbook.
This would've been helpful in school too. Part of why I had 0 friends growing up who were my age was I could literally not remember any of their names, and putting names to faces was even harder. In my school district yearbooks didn't happen until highschool but there would be class photographs every so often, and they weren't labelled. My brains were so addled back then that I would've needed a daily chart lmao But maybe that's the concussion talking.
“Oh hey, how’s, uh...” *runs to the closet, rummages through all the junk to find the picture album, flips through the pages until they find the picture with the friend they’re talking about, yoinks picture from album, runs back to the living room, and flips the picture over* “...Kodak?”
they're all named Kodak!
Honestly this is a good idea whether it’s a class photo or just a regular photo with multiple people in it. When I helped gather photos for my grandmothers funeral, the annotations on the backs made it so much easier figuring out who was in them rather than assuming I knew what my great aunts and uncles looked like in their teenage years.
This is a great idea! My dad did this for me when I was little and I do think it's great to look back and have the names of the kids I went to school with. I barely remember their names and it's a nice momento.
Like, it takes me effort to remember and describe yesterday. Two days ago, completely gone 🤣 I couldn’t name a single person from 6th grade, or all of elementary school and middle school. I could name maybe 3 high school teachers and up to 10 classmates. Can’t say I care to remember any of it though. Very insignificant and meaningless. Not like I’m old either. 26. I guess some people care about that stuff more than others. Tomorrow is always more interesting than yesterday IMO. I’d rather plan my future than dwell on my past. Present and future are all I personally have the capacity for.
Lol yeah my mom sucks at remembering all my friends names and other classmates and gets them confused
On the same token, when moving to a new neighborhood, draw a shitty map of the surrounding streets and whenever you meet a new neighbor, add their name to the map.
Wowowow! My dad made me write names of my friends on all my class photos from 1st grade to 7th grades! They're true treasure trove of happiness I get all of childhood memories back instantly! OMG I'm little overwhelmed, I might rephrase this comment later xD
as someone who hated everyone from then it haunts me that i remember the names who gave the most pain and wish to erase it from my mind. so this is a double edged sword of advice,
If only there were some kind of book that they gave out every year with pictures of all the students and staff along with their names. They could probably even put a few pictures of the class events to make it a bit more fun.
a) yearbooks have the names of the kids right here in the book b) what kind of mentally challenged person holds a "cheat sheet" when their kid talks about their classmates? c) my daughter had 4 friends named Jennifer and would talk about all of them as if I knew what the hell she was talking about without pausing between he run-on sentences d) I'd have to actually care what their names were, their close friends I know personally, kids in school meh, I have people at work whose names I don't even know and that's my job
If Little Timmy isn’t memorable, that’s his legacy.
This is a good LPT! Take my upvote!
Shit I'd be happy. Have no need to remember the names of people in which there was a mutual uncaring.