Parents are outraged after learning of a bid to charge them $2200 for their own children’s artwork to help cover the debts of a community-run preschool and kindergarten — which has closed amid financial troubles. Parents were reportedly emailed asking them to “oppose” or “agree” to the hefty fee to raise funds to pay more than $40,000 owning to staff at Craigslea Kindergarten and Preschool. Credit: SevenParents are being asked to pay for their children’s own artworks. The Courier Mail reported the committee member had previously said the portfolios — in which teachers collated and analysed students’ artworks — were “intellectual property of the association”. Craigslea Kindergarten and Preschool is an affiliated centre of C&K, meaning it operates as an independent incorporated association managed by a volunteer management committee usually made up of parents and guardians.