I'm just curious as to what you all would have done in this situation ...
Our bus stop is at a corner. There is a house there, and the kids usually play on the front lawn while waiting for the bus. My kids don't (I don't let them), but almost all of the others do. I understand from the rumour mill that the owners of the house have made a few complaints to the school about kids on the lawn, strollers blocking their driveway, etc. The sidewalk where we wait is short and very rarely plowed by the town or shovelled by the owner (both of which are required, but that's another post ...), so we do sometimes wait on the sidewalk that crosses their driveway, but everyone always moves out of the way if there is a car coming in or going out (which doesn't happen very often).
Anyway, this morning, I watched the owner of the house sitting in his van the entire time we were there waiting for the bus, holding his cell phone so that the camera could very well have been filming the kids on his front lawn. My kids would have been out of the line of sight for most of it, but it makes me really mad to think that he may actually have been recording everything
. I'm sure that if he was, it wouldn't have been for anything more than showing to the school to get them to change the bus stop, but it still makes me really mad that anyone would surreptitiously film kids without their parents' permission. I asked a few of the other moms if they had noticed him, but they hadn't. They did suggest we knock on his window and ask if he was actually filming the kids. I was angry at the possibility and I said I might flip on him if he was. They weren't terribly concerned about it, so they didn't do anything either
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I ended up emailing the principle to tell her what I saw and what I thought he was doing, and then requested that our stop be moved to a playground close by, so that we would be on public property. I haven't heard back yet though.
So what would you have done? Would you have confronted him? Or am I just worked up over nothing :confused: ?
Our bus stop is at a corner. There is a house there, and the kids usually play on the front lawn while waiting for the bus. My kids don't (I don't let them), but almost all of the others do. I understand from the rumour mill that the owners of the house have made a few complaints to the school about kids on the lawn, strollers blocking their driveway, etc. The sidewalk where we wait is short and very rarely plowed by the town or shovelled by the owner (both of which are required, but that's another post ...), so we do sometimes wait on the sidewalk that crosses their driveway, but everyone always moves out of the way if there is a car coming in or going out (which doesn't happen very often).
Anyway, this morning, I watched the owner of the house sitting in his van the entire time we were there waiting for the bus, holding his cell phone so that the camera could very well have been filming the kids on his front lawn. My kids would have been out of the line of sight for most of it, but it makes me really mad to think that he may actually have been recording everything


I ended up emailing the principle to tell her what I saw and what I thought he was doing, and then requested that our stop be moved to a playground close by, so that we would be on public property. I haven't heard back yet though.
So what would you have done? Would you have confronted him? Or am I just worked up over nothing :confused: ?
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