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Anonymous
| Our school is having picture day tomorrow. DS is in Kindergarten but all through preschool and when I was a child you got to see the pictures BEFORE you had to pay. We are in MCPS and they are requiring that we pay for a package before we've even seen the pictures. Is this the standard method of pictures once they are in elementary school? I want pictures if they are good for family but if they suck I hate having to pre-purchase them. Curious for others opinions. |
Anonymous
| Yes, it's standard. But our school has a re-do day if they're bad. A friend was complaining about this recently as well, but This is how it was when I was a kid too. Our daycare used to give you the pictures and then you only paid for the ones you kept. I always thought that was odd-not that I complained! |
Anonymous
| Our MoCo school photos could be ordered in advance, with free delivery at school, or ordered after the fact. (All kids, with or without orders, get proofs.) Those later orders cost more (shipping and handling). |
Anonymous
| We had to pre-pay in K (our pics were last week) and we had to pre-pay in preschool. |
Anonymous
| PP - Who takes a bad school pic? With digital cameras, they just keep taking until they get a good one. |
Anonymous
| My DS had spaghetti sauce all over his face in K. So, that was a bad picture, but I thought it was hilarious. |
Anonymous
My ds had an awful picture taken in 2nd grade...worst one I've ever seen of him! I wondered, too, why they thought it was good and didn't re-take it. I had it re-taken in the spring at the make-up day. |
Anonymous
| Our kindergarten teacher told me that you don't have to order them in advance. You can just wait til they send the proofs home and then order them if you like them. |
Anonymous
| I had to pay in advance and we just got ours yesterday. If you don't like them, send them back for a refund and wait for retake day. |
Anonymous
| Fair question although as far as know its always been done this way. In our school, we pay in advance. You can retake on another day if you don't like them. I've also returned/refunded the photos one year and it wasn't a problem. I also don't sign up for the special background colors and sparkle touch etc which are junky. I think about what photo size i want and then design a package that works for that. My parents and family like getting them for christmas. Our studio is victor o'neill. |
Anonymous
| We also pay in advance. One thing I've heard others do is just pay for the digital download of the picture, and then you can print your own pictures if you like it. |
Anonymous
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In my son's Montessori K, we pay after receiving the photographs - if we don't like them, we just have to return them. The studio produces beautiful prints every year, I don't know what their trick is to make the children smile like that.
It is not fair that you should have to pay in advance for a product that you have not seen and may not want, but I suppose public schools and their studios have to scrounge money from anywhere they can! |
Anonymous
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PP here - the set of 7 pages of photos costs $63 ($20 per individual page if you don't buy the whole set).
I would be curious to know how much it is in public schools. My son's photographs seem to me very expensive, but they are always very well taken, and I always end up buying the set and sending prints to all the grandparents and great-grandparents! |
Anonymous
| I paid $21 for 2 5x7 photos, plus a small assortment of wallet type photos at a parish catholic school. |
Anonymous
| I think it is the norm. But be mindful of the paying in advance and the refund policy. Such as a "sitting fee" of being non-refundable. |