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[quote=Anonymous]I don't know about other private school auctions, but I can tell that, as a big-3 parent, the auction is FUN.  There's the silent auction, which is mostly a social event with drinks and great food and lots of interesting items to look at and bid on or not.  The vast majority of people are just socializing, not bidding.  I think some people only go to the silent auction, particularly those who have to get home to relieve a sitter.  The live auction follows the silent and is where the big ticket items come up (and where a full dinner is served too).  I haven't come home having "won" anything in a few years now and I've never felt any pressure to bid or to try to win anything.    At the live auction, we always request to get seated with parents from our kids' classes and the school handles which table we're assigned to, and we always have a fun time.   Yes, there's perhaps some one-upmanship among some parents who give and who bid on the big ticket items but there's never any nastiness about it.  It's those big ticket donations and bidding that make the auction exciting and that bring in the big bucks.  Remember, the auctions typically fund financial aid and scholarships -- without them bringing in 6-figure results, there are lots of low and middle income kids who wouldn't be able to attend the school at all or whose parents would have to withdraw them and send them to public school.[/quote]

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