Elementary school selling student art work for $25 each

I’m not a good writer but I think it would help to make these points:
•Many families cannot afford this especially if more than one child
•any children in foster care or with guardians would be at an equal disadvantage
•hurt feelings and low self esteem for the kids that don’t have art work purchased
•would think you need parental permission and what about those kids who don’t get it for whatever reason

There's a company (probably more than one) that puts the artwork in frames, sets up a "show," and allows parents to come in and buy the framed artwork as a fundraiser for the school. It's entirely voluntary. The unsold artwork is unframed and sent home with the student as usual, for free.

That's probably what this is. I'd investigate further before writing a letter.

It doesn't matter if the artwork comes home when it is not sold. What matters is the child's feelings when their artwork is not sold. I am sure there would be many pieces not sold for various reasons.

To me this smacks of coercing the parents/grandparents into forking over $25 per child to keep from hurting the child's feelings.

This is what our school does, but they only ask $10 per piece. It’s a fundraiser for the PTG. As far as I know, each student’s artwork is only available to his or her own family.

OP: I would ask whoever’s running the fundraiser if you can have both/all your children’s artwork for one $25 payment. Otherwise you aren’t buying any of them. Yes, your kids would be upset, but I don’t like this kind of arm-twisting by the school to begin with. You can explain that to them, for whatever good it does.

We are a poor school with some folks that are decently well off. We do the same thing as you. No one has had jealousy issues that I am aware of. A pre K quilt with all the kids hand prints went for 1,200 dollars at the fall carnival auction. Fact is I never had the money to bid at these auctions. I always contributed to the baskets though. As for the artwork, projects, no one was every given public credit. It was always "the 3rd grade class is auctioning off this painting". Same for the parents who made the quilts etc. Sometimes I would stay and watch the crazy that is the auction, most times though I was ready to get out of that place. Now mine are all in high school so I am past that part of the whole thing.

They did something like this at our school a few years ago. But it was ceramic bowls and they were $5 each. The money was donated to a food bank.

i like the idea, but they should be $5 or $10, not $25.

our school had auction for a class art piece every year.

i ended up with one - because they display them at the funfair and there was not a single bid for that one and i felt for the kids in the class. so i won (surprise) and my kid was not even in the class. didn't love it but just got rid of it about 2 months ago.

then they realized they were only making money from one family so came up with another brilliant idea and got boxes of note cards with envelopes printed, mugs and spiral bound notebooks with your classes artwork image on it. and they made $$ from lots of parents. i mad sure i got those mugs in the divorce...

i would send a note to whomever is in the charge - if you don't know, the principal, and say that you have concerns about this program. if a parent has 3 kids, that might be all their money for groceries for a week. and certainly leave kids who's parents can't/won't afford it to feel like they are less than.