feeling oblidged to but children's art work

[hotmama84]

School has just held an art exhibition where children's art work has been framed and dispayed. With 3 dc at school I have just parted with the best part of £18.00
Do you think art exhibition is a good idea or just another means of getting cash out of parents?

Oh we had this. You feel like you have to buy them. They are in the loft. They did the Christmas Cards thing which was slightly better as at least you could use them.

We only did it once, it's pure pester power. We are forever stuck with keeping a not very good picture because it's been framed.

Didn't realise how common it was. My dc are rubbish at art too!

I had this just once. Youngest son has a teacher at the time who was a "proper" artist and with her guidance managed to produce something which looks vaguely like a real picture-he has Aspergers and is dysrpaxic and "doesn't do Art"! I still have it hanging on the wall some 10 years later!

I used to do this at Xmas so the kids could buy it themselves as a parent gift but they were cheap to buy. If they did not want to pay then they kept the art work but not the frame - could you ask for that and frame it yourself if you wanted to?

Another thing they used to do was have the visiting book fair. They used to show all the children the books in the afternoon and they had to write a wish list!! I thought that was awful.

O yes had the book fairwish list thing too but not art exhibition yet!!. Just put that in the bin. And don't get me startednon young writer's vanity press.

Its such a rip off we have just been charged £7 a piece.

They gave all the kids the same bloody template .. all our p2's had a fish and they clearly hadnt taken time to get them done properly
ds's had bits that werent finised
But what you gonna say to your 6 year old .. no I am not buying it .. its rubbish

My DCs shcool don't do this, but the going rate for buying your own child's art around here is £7.50.

I've also heard of the wish list thing.

All sounds hideous to me.

We do the book fair thing a lot, a real pain.
The choice is dreadful and as DDs get older very limited.
I wouldn't mind if we did scholastic, who sent home proper book people type catalogues .
However, going round the hall with their mates you have to buy something even if it's over priced tat

I absolutely hate this. I explained to my 9 year old that I looked forward to him bringing the painting home without its frame. I refuse to pay for my own child's artwork. The amount per picture given to the school is tiny. I'd rather give the school all the money just so they don't do it again.