MMEand1
05-12-2009, 06:12 PM
So my DS, a kindergartener, brings home a slip a few weeks ago to order a yearbook. It is $15 and is NOT a hard-back book. This is his first year of school, so why not, right?
Well, we get the yearbook and what is listed to my DS's name? NOT PICTURED!!!! I called the yearbook company and was told that each school has a different cut-off as to when pictures need to be in place for the book. I know that the book was not even ordered until a few weeks ago, so how hard would it have been to check with the 41 kids that are not pictured and see if there is a picture that could be used. We took pictures using the same company at DS's last school as well as Spring pictures here - all the same photo company and yearbook company.
The yearbook is really pitiful, too. It is grades pre-k through 5th grade. There are no random shots of the kids, or of activities that have been done throughout the year. All it has is each class with the kids and the teacher, a couple of pages with the other aux. teachers (PE, art) and the Principal, office workers, etc. and a page with a picture of the 8 clubs the school has (safety patrol, strings club, young astronauts, etc).
I am really upset that my DS's first yearbook is such a waste, especially since his picture is not even there. I am going to call his other school and see if he is in their yearbook. We moved in December, so it's not likely that they will have left his picture in, but you would think that his current school would have had time to put it in.
How do you explain to your 6 year old why his picture was not in the yearbook?
Well, we get the yearbook and what is listed to my DS's name? NOT PICTURED!!!! I called the yearbook company and was told that each school has a different cut-off as to when pictures need to be in place for the book. I know that the book was not even ordered until a few weeks ago, so how hard would it have been to check with the 41 kids that are not pictured and see if there is a picture that could be used. We took pictures using the same company at DS's last school as well as Spring pictures here - all the same photo company and yearbook company.
The yearbook is really pitiful, too. It is grades pre-k through 5th grade. There are no random shots of the kids, or of activities that have been done throughout the year. All it has is each class with the kids and the teacher, a couple of pages with the other aux. teachers (PE, art) and the Principal, office workers, etc. and a page with a picture of the 8 clubs the school has (safety patrol, strings club, young astronauts, etc).
I am really upset that my DS's first yearbook is such a waste, especially since his picture is not even there. I am going to call his other school and see if he is in their yearbook. We moved in December, so it's not likely that they will have left his picture in, but you would think that his current school would have had time to put it in.
How do you explain to your 6 year old why his picture was not in the yearbook?