To think preschool selling parents their child's craft is wrong

[Willyorwonte]

From time to time our preschool make crafts with the children and then parents are expected to buy them. For example a hand print, or a mothers day card. We are reminded daily to buy them.
Am a grouch for feeling it's an odd and cheeky thing to do?

Why can't the kids just bring the items home with them? Pretty sure we did that at school and our parents weren't made to pay for them! Yanbu.

You are paying for the materials as part of pre school fees so yes they are being very cheeky!

It's very common in schools now, so get used to it. Most classes will make something to be sold at the Christmas or Summer fair. Of course, your child's name will be on it so you have to buy it.

How odd. Totally unreasonable. As a PP said your fees pay for the materials.

At the preschool I used to use, the money used to go into a pot at the end of the month to support fees for working parents in financial difficulty, so I disagree. If the money goes to good cause it's worthwhile.

I understand buying something your child has made specifically for a fayre, something they wouldn't have done otherwise and supplies have been purchased to be used in this way. However in the normal run of the day if they create a piece of art work or something similar then I think it's incredibly cheeky to ask parents to contribute towards it. Generally, teachers spend a lot of their own money on resources but I could never charge my class (or their parents) to purchase a mothers day card etc.

Our school give us the original but also the option to buy things as Christmas cards/canvas prints/whatever

And they're an independent school, so masters of fleecing us parents at every opportunity!

They only do this as they need to fundraise.

Unless you are prepared to pay higher fees then yabu.

Ask them what percentage the artist gets.

You don't have to buy them
There is a chronic underfunding of preschool so they have to fund raise to survive

m.youtube.com/watch?v=cWkNnMifnMc

Very odd and lame way to fundraise.

Never paid a bean for anything of DD's and she's 7 now.
Bit cheeky I think.

Been going on for years. I remember buying a picture made from pieces of cut up red square tissue paper stuck on a piece of card....cost me £15 I was an idiot but it was my first child and I felt guilty not buying it!

Way back, many, many years ago when the DC were at preschool, we sometimes paid for artwork when it had been especially and nicely mounted/framed, as an opportunity to fundraise. Most houses in the neighbourhood had the same style painting of daffodils on the wall!

No objection if the fundraising is done in this way. Bit cheeky to do it routinely.

I was thrown out of Brownies for leading a subversive revolt based entirely on them selling stuff we'd made back to our parents

I'd be complaining that art and crafts is subjective, how do they know what to charge?!?!

Also, as pp said, what percentage do the artists get? Surely that's child labour ;)

Our school PTA do this. Children are desperate for you to buy the mothers day gift they have put work into...so it's awful if you can't (if you have multiple children it can be £20!)