Wow....just wow!!! Children don't need to be made to feel less than at any time in their lives. I hope the news of this company's insensitive, offensive actions winds up causing them to lose lots of business.
@Murrmurr"Maybe the photography company got requests first, and then offered to erase the kids for other parents who wanted them taken out. It's still being investigated." If that was the case, the other parents wouldn't be so upset. Also, if the company got requests to do it from some parents, all they had to do was honor those parents' requests and not assume other parents were so ashamed of their children.
I hope the parents can SUE!!!!! And/or the School can sue this company.
Here in USA there are plenty of anti discrimination laws, that fully include the disabled.
My husband won the first ADA EEOC case here in New York State. 1992.
Since then , the ADA was amended, in 2009: