<p>Does your high school sell ads for the yearbook? Our high school expects most families of seniors to take out these ads full of baby pictures, good luck wishes from grandma and grandpa, “You’ll always be our star! Love, Mom, Dad, Binky, and Buzz”, etc. I think they’re kind of corny and my kids hate them. What do you think?</p>
<p>My kids would disown us if we did that. The participation at our local high school is actually low for this “opportunity” to congragulate your graduate.</p>
<p>Our hs has always done this too and I refuse to pay the price of one of these ads. None of my three dd’s have ever wanted us to do this. However, the majority of parents do take out at least a quarter page.</p>
<p>Our HS yearbooks has them, but no such expectation so only a handful of families do this. Seniors are offered a chance to submit a baby photo, which is then put into a two page spread collage, at no extra costs. However, they have various ways to up cost the already ($95 if ordered early) costly yearbook, including extra costs for some music CD, an engraved cover, a cover jacket, etc.</p>
<p>Yes, took out a full page. It is customary.</p>
<p>Our high school does this too. A full page costs $500. About three quarters of the class does a full page and most of the remainder do half or quarter pages. There’s a lot of pressure to do one, although I think it’s mostly the girls who really want them.</p>
<p>I admit, we did it for our D only for her senior yearbook. I tried to keep it fairly simple, included a couple of quotes that I thought summed up our thoughts for her, few lines of “gushiness” and some pictures. Some of the pages, I have to admit though, were well over the top in regards to sappy sentiment or the ‘list’ of admirers that contributed ‘notes’ and would have mortified my D!</p>
<p>Our h.s. does it. It seems to be “the thing to do”. Almost every senior seems to have an ad. I did the quarter page for my two S’s. It’s been a few years now but I think I paid $50 each. I don’t know if they ever even read what I wrote but they both had input on the pics in the ad…wanted to be sure I didn’t put something embarrassing in.</p>
<p>The Val. of S1’s class had two full pages…a little over the top.</p>
<p>Some parents at our school do “group” pages which is kind of nice --your kid and his or her group of best friends, plus pictures of them together. Splitting the cost several ways makes it affordable. I don’t think there’s any pressure to do it – I didn’t do it for my oldest, and I don’t anticipate either of my other 2 would want it either</p>
<p>We have them at my school. Most people do a quarter page. Pretty much everyone does one. If your parents don’t write you a message with a picture, people will notice.</p>
<p>Our high school did this as well–I did full page ads for both my kids; seems that most people did full pages, some did half pages and a few did quarter pages. It was fun picking out the pictures.</p>
<p>Our school does them. My daughters said they would disown us if we did them. We want to keep them so we didn’t. I would put in a business ad if asked, but haven’t been so far.</p>
<p>We’re doing a half-page. I’ve been looking forward to it for years. Enough people do it that it’s not weird but by no means does everyone do it.</p>
<p>Our school also does this. Quarter page ad is $40 and there is no pressure to submit. Almost always it has two pictures–1 baby and 1 sr. pic. Didn’t do it for S1, thinking he wouldn’t care. Felt like a loser when I saw the yearbook and saw most of the parents do the ad. I got with the program for S2.</p>
<p>Our school also makes a video with each two pictures of each sr. - again one when young and one a sr. picture. The video is shown during graduation and is very special and touching. Only ~55 graduates, so they can do this and all of ceremony and keep it under 1 hour.</p>
<p>Yes, we’ve done these for our kids. Many families in our town take out the full page with a zillion pictures, huge fonts, and song lyrics, poems, etc. Some have them done professionally by graphic artists (or whoever does stuff like this professionally). We’ve done 1/4 page for each of our daughters ($50-60). I’ve tried for a note of restrained good taste, i.e., what won’t embarrass any of us in years to come? We’ve used our favorite toddler picture for each girl with a quote that seems especially apt. We used 2 pictures for the last kid - one from when she was 2 years old wearing a tutu, baseball cap, and galoshes, juxtaposed with a formally posed ballet picture. </p>
<p>I really like the one we did for d2 - it was a photo of her standing on the steps in front of the door on her first day of kindergarten, wearing a pink dress, Minnie Mouse backpack, and huge grin. The quote was something like “There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.” It’s time-consuming to find a quote both parents and kid will find acceptable. :)</p>
<p>I enjoy looking at this section of the yearbook! And it’s a good fundraiser for an expensive but important hs activity. Yes, some parents go way overboard (it’s almost always the usual suspects who do this), and that can be funny; but for the most part, it’s sweet to see the messages parents leave for their kids. It’s common around here for siblings and friends to create these ads, too.</p>
<p>It’s a big deal here…full color, you can buy 1/4, 1/2 or full page. We did a half page for Son - I was so excited for him to see it. I don’t remember how much it cost but maybe it was $250? At the time, D agreed that hers could be a half page, too, although she would prefer a full. Some are silly but quite a few are sweet and touching.</p>
<p>Last fall (when Son was a senior) I pored over the family photos, because I had to come up with pix for not only the senor ad, but the ad in the musical program and the ad for the jazz choir show. It was an expensive year.</p>
<p>My high school in Texas did this 30 years ago, and my kids’ school in Maine does the same. It’s fun, but I don’t think we’ll pay for an ad.</p>
<p>Our HS does this–almost all the families participate.
I actually enjoy seeing the family pics, group shots of the kids with friends etc.
Quotes etc. I am already thinking I had better start thinking about whiich of the pics we will use…so I am not rushing to find them since they are all digital files now.</p>
<p>Our younger son’s elementary school did it for th yerbook–as they graduated off to new, schools… the notes and pics were sweet.</p>
<p>I think most high school yearbooks do it, it’s a great way to subsidize the budget for the yearbook. </p>
<p>And while most kids will complain that they’re corny or embarassing, I think most secretly hope their parents will buy one, even if just so they can complain along with their friends about how corny and embarassing they are. Plus, looking back at my old senior year yearbook, now that I’m a little less embarassed by my folks, I’m always touched that they took the time and resources to do an ad for me.</p>
<p>How timely. Just came back from placing our ad. They are outrageously expensive, ranging from $125-$500 and I wouldn’t be surprised if we are the only ones to choose the $125 variety. My twins seemed to want us to do this-thank goodness DS#1 had no interest when it was his turn years ago. DH and I think this is really a waste of $$, but we caved. :rolleyes:</p>