School Photos

[yelenots]

My son has just brought home his school photo. I feel I have to buy it as its his last one at high school but its dreadful!! I have a whole drawer full of school photos from when my eldest started (I have 3) and they never get looked at - I wish I had just bought the 1st and last of primary and high school! I've got football/netball/swimming/athletic ones -They are so expensive - nice to have at the time but what a waste of money!
Anyone got any ideas on how to store them all, apart from several large photo albums!

[sara3]

in a bag, in the loft ;o)

I've got loads, too!

[4getmenot]

mine looked the same every year

[sherrardk]

I don't buy them - they're not done for you anyway, they are done so that the school can have a photograph of each of the students for their records.

[sara3]

sherrard, you'd have to get a mortgage for your lot's photos ;o)

[yelenots]

The school only gets a free class photo!

[sherrardk]

And I'd have to take the little ones in for 8.30!! Three of them are in primary school now and I do feel a bit bad about not buying them but they are so awful!

[Hippie2010]

Sherrardk!!! We don't do it for that reason! We do it for the commission! lol.
I'm supposed to upload the photo's onto the system but don't have time and no-one cares so it's definitely not for that reason. We book them cos we assume parents want them!

[dotty.]

my grandson brought his home after his first week, but they are very good, quite posed rather than the usual shot, he's sitting at a desk with a large book open on the desk in front of him and his hands are crossed over the pages, so quite a studious photo, the other one has a side portrait of him sitting in front of a library bookcase, and so they are quite different from the usual bland background.

[sherrardk]

Sorry Hippie2010 - but I taught for 16 years and know full well that the photos were done for the benefit of the school (it was a large 1500+ school and the photos were uploaded/downloaded onto the system to keep track of everyone).

[Prudie]

It won't stop any time soon either - I've just gone to my daughter's graduation. The simplest photo starts at £30+ and that is after £35 to hire the gown, £16.50 per person just for a ticket, £25 for a DVD of the ceremony not counting the petrol and hotel just to be there!

[Hippie2010]

Ah...well we're only a small village primary school and we definitely don't do it for that reason.

[sherrardk]

Hi Hippie - hope I didn't offend!

[yelenots]

I work in a school and we used to have to more tradional photos but this year we changed to the more modern ones where the child or children are posing rather than just sitting facing the camera, hands on knees sort of thing. The parents seem to prefer the modern way of taking! I'm not quite so sure :)

[Hippie2010]

Course you didn't offend!!! x
Yes....we've started having the modern ones too. The class ones are great.
Except......they wanted the pregnant teacher to lay on her stomach, the one with the bad back to sort of sit sideways and the one with two recent hip replacements to sit cross legged! lol The children loved it though.

[yelenots]

Prudie - my daughter is graduating next year - that means I'll have even more photo's to buy!!!!

[sherrardk]

I look like such a numpty in my graduation photos - probably worth buying them for the future embarassment factor!

[TTG]

Get him to dress as though he is going to school and take your own picture.

[TTG]

Scan and store on cd or dvd. You can play these on a dvd player.