At our school it was a way to keep the cost of the yearbook down. It was still high but I guess it would have been more without the pages in the back. My son graduated a few years ago but I don't remember how much it cost. I think a full page was around $120, A half a page was around $75. There was also a quarter of the page. We split a page with another parent and she put her pictures on top and ours were on the bottom. Then we both wrote something on our part of the page. It was cheaper to do it that way.

I love those pages with all the photos of the graduate and their family. Its my favorite part of the yearbook. I am not a good writer so I did something like remember when etc.... I put a lot of special memories from the time he was born until the present time. The hardest part was picking out just 6 photos that represented his life.