Question Of The Day - Monday, August 19, 2019

It's the first day of school!!! Ok technically it's still the night before here. I'm posting now because tomorrow might be busy. I'm not sure how I feel about it yet. It's looking like our busiest year yet. I need to get ready to do our first day of school pictures.


Let's talk about school pictures. Did you get yearly pictures done at school? Did they actually turn out good?


We had them done once a year when I was in school. It seems now most schools do twice a year. I don't really see why. I have a bunch of ok pictures. And a few terrible. Only my senior picture qualifies as really good. I liked when we could choose our own backgrounds. There was one year that I tried to smile so you could see my missing tooth because I thought it would be cool to see it in the picture. My poor parents had to pay for that. And I have to live with that for the rest of my life. Fortunately it's not on display anywhere.

I don't remember seeing my first grade picture. But apparently it was so terrible my Mom hired a co-worker who did photography on the side to redo pictures.


Now I'm off to make DH a "My 6,752nd day of Work" sign.

I think most turned out okay. My second grade picture turned out badly, though. We had recess right before, and no one bothered to tell me how messed up my hair was

Yes, I got them. No, they did not turn out okay. There may be one that was not horrible, but, for the most part, I always looked scared or angry.

i'd say that my parents decided to get the school pictures done. that was a waste of money, imo.

Money was tight growing up so I think they only had my pictures done in first grade and 8th grade. Didn't even do senior pictures. I think they turned out well enough. Typical goofy-looking kid photos.

Yes and they turned out ok. I found one from 5th grade recently and I was wearing glasses that had frames like cats, ha!!

Yearly pictures were like mandatory in elementary school You had to have the proof pictures taken even if your parents didn't want to buy any of the expensive photo packages. The pictures never turned out well and the backdrops were always horrible. My parents bought the most expensive photo package for us 3 kids every year. Why I don't know. None of the photos were ever displayed in the house or shared with relatives All the photo packages are still stuffed in a drawer in my parent's house completely untouched and probably unopened, too.

Yes, we took them every year at school. They do a much better job now days. I looked goofy in most of them, but didn't everyone!?

We took them every year in school. And the only one I can think of that was terrible was my grade 6, I had the dumbest look on my face, a weird half frown half smile. Some were cute, most were good "for the time", although my hair left something to be desired (picture day or not) in my "tween" years. And It wasn't because of the style at the time, I just had horrid hair that I had NO idea how to manage.

di and bob said:

Yes, we took them every year at school. They do a much better job now days. I looked goofy in most of them, but didn't everyone!?

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Same here, yearly pictures and I agree that they are more well done now. Probably most people look back on them and think they looked goofy. Senior year we went to a professional photographer and our parents had many different poses to choose from. I really liked my senior pic and still have it.

I always had school pictures. They turned out okay. I thought I was cute when I was younger but as I got older, I somehow started believing that I'm ugly so anything past grade 3 is 'eww' for me.

We had individual and class pictures taken once a year in grades 1 - 4, class pictures only in grades 5 and 6. Most of them were pretty good.

After elementary school there was nothing until the senior portraits for our yearbook except for group sports team photos.

This pretty much speaks for itself.

I did get yearly pictures at school, though I only have a couple that I kept (my first school photo, my last primary school photo, my first secondary school photo and my sixth form photo).

Up until my freshman year, my parents only got the group photos from school, because they were only a couple of dollars. After that, I paid for my own pictures, but could only afford the sepia tones, including my senior pictures. Mostly, I was indifferent towards having my picture taken.

Ah yes, went through mandatory yearly school pictures.

As a tiny kid they turned out OK, since being a tiny kid is default cuteness for many, but overall beyond that I was never very photogenic

K-12 started two weeks ago for us. Fortunately, mine is in college.

My mom always made me get school pictures and give them to family because they wanted a picture. They always turned out much like my DMV picture. I have never liked my picture taken so I wasn't happy about this.
My son must feel the same way because he didn't smile in any of his pictures.

Yes, school pics every year. Most memorable for the bad haircuts and very very short bangs I seemed to have in each.

We had class pictures in elementary school. Then the HS yearbook photo. I'm not a fan of any of them.

We had to have them taken but purchasing was optional. We got the smallest package usually sometimes with extra wallet sized photos for swapping. I still have them and treasure them. I'm glad my parents shelled out the money for them. I have a stack of friends school photos as well and I look at those and remember those days like it was just yesterday. All the exact emotions including schoolyard crushes come back. Being old- well we kind of forget how high those emotions ran and tapping into it even just for a moment in hindsight is like sipping a potion that takes you back in time to some awesome AMC period drama.

I was a major tomboy and pretty rough from 5th or 6th grade and up but for picture day I'd fuss over clothes and hair and look pretty. Sure it felt like I was going to a wedding or a funeral, like I was wearing an insincere costume. I was uncomfortable in those clothes all day and my classmates would all be astonished but it made my family happy so I grinned and bore it. Looking back at those photos 30 years later I truly was beautiful. I'm glad I have some pictures where I'm not making goofy faces and making heavy metal hand gestures though those are fun too.