Bad Art Teachers.

[LibbyGargett]

This is going to be a major rant, so here goes:

Bad art teachers. Do not get me started on bad art teachers..cause i've had the worst bad art teacher experience that is physically possible, as far as I'm concerned.

I think she's mentally unstable - I've simply never met anyone more unhelpful, more dismissive or frankly more horrible than her. My entire class dreads attending art lessons; they're ridiculously unproductive as no one tends to have a clue what we're doing, thanks to her exceedingly poor explanation skills. Whilst the other two art classes in my year are up to date and doing (pretty much) the same thing of designing wallpaper and drawing from observation, we're off pasting coffins into our sketchbooks and planning drawings of children on fire (and no, I'm not joking, these are both genuine ideas of hers)

I took art because I love it. I guess I'm creatively minded and can only do things that are art-based, and if I'm being honest, I thought I had a pretty good chance of passing. But, this teacher has gone beyond the realms of ruining it for me - not only my enjoyment but my chance of getting a decent grade.

It's not that me, or my classmates, are not trying. At home when I'm working on my coursework I'm fine, as I got a list of the coursework needs from the other art teacher (we have to turn to another teacher for instruction) and have worked through them to the best of my ability, which my teacher dismisses at the blink of an eye. On the rare occassion that she will look at our work progressing, the only thing she can come out with is a critiscism, and certainly not a constructive one at that: 'WHERE'S YOUR FINAL PIECE?' (on the 6th week of our 20 week art course) and 'THAT IS HIDEOUS' (about an unfinished observational drawing of mine)

The point is, I simply can't express how badly she handles her teaching career in any way, shape or form; it's simply a case of 'have to be there'. We've complained, reasoned, rebelled, made suggestions of improvement, but somehow, my school is still crazy enough to employ her.

All I can say is, wish me luck with art GCSE. H
Hmm, rant over...glad I got that out my system smile

[MarianasLlama]

I've gotten over it over and over again



Eh, I never really experienced the art teacher we had, because I was in her class for 2 weeks, and they never let me back into that class again for some reason.

But from what I remember while being in that class, I got a C- and I don't know why, because she only ever wrote a grade on the back of something instead of telling you why (Except one assignment, where you were supposed to draw your shoes making a square, but they were supposed to overlap and be transparent so you could still see the other shoe underneath, and I didn't know that so I failed. I still don't understand the point of that assignment to this day.)

And from what I know from my friends who were in art all the way up, 99.9% of that class was copying pictures/photos you found on the internet.

Woot? xD

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[practicallyzen]

I've only had two art teachers in school (one in middle school, one in high school) and both of them were pretty bad. The first one just didn't care, so we didn't learn anything.

The second one...I don't know what her deal was, really. Half the time she seemed to favour me over other students (not good!) and like my work a lot, and the other half she decided I wasn't doing things right. There were a couple instances when I got a crappy mark on a project, and several of my classmates (some of whom I had barely even spoken to) went to her afterwards to tell her they thought I should have done much better.

By my last year she pretty much let me do whatever I wanted. I worked in a side room, on my own away from the rest of the class, and did tons of extra projects on my own because I was getting no instruction from her.

To sum up: my middle school and high school art classes were a joke.

[Pulchritudinous Sin]

I have one outside of school.
I don't really go to her for help, but each time I have, I've gotten responses such as 'don't do any figure drawing', 'don't draw buildings, they're boring' and has rejected any and every request I've suggested involving going out and drawing from life. She actually just has us eyeball photos.
How are these people qualified to do what they're doing?

[NineTailedFox777]

JOANN WAYLAND IS A c**t
she was my freshman sophomore year shop teacher[i went to a vocational school and had classes one week then shop the next week] i had never used photoshop in my life before high school. she taught me nothing i had to constantly ask others for help or follow a tutorial online. she played favorites and everyday we did an hour of drawing. what did we draw? HANDS AND SHOES....which didnt help me one bit. she hated me for no reason...i believe it was because i got up a lot[sometimes to aske for help sometimes to socialize]. SHE WAS THE BIGGEST c**t I HAVE EVER MET[ and i dont use that word a lot but she is the QUEEN OF CUNTS]

[Kya 123]

Commencing rant in 3...2...1...

Here's my horror story. My teacher came in at least a half hour late every class, took another half hour to get her stuff together, and then took hour long coffee breaks(it was a five hour class, which was horrible too). When we went into here office to get our work we found a lot of our stuff, that we had worked for hours on, just lying haphazardly on the floor.

What annoyed me the most was at the final (which was only supposed to be two hours by the way, I was there for four) she brought us in for a critique with her. Normally she was always hard on everyone’s work, but she just praised everybody and told everyone how well they were doing, and then immediately gave us a teacher evaluation form. Did she really think that I would forget the hours I spent on ridicules assignments, or the time we spent sitting there waiting for her to show up, or the sleep I lost because of the stress of finishing everything?

Maybe it's the fact that everyone who had taken her class before would say what a great teacher she was and how much we would learn, I wonder if they were thinking of the same person.

End Rant. Ahhhh, I feel much better now.

[Emerald Clover Doll No 13]

suck and make the world a depressed hunk of s**t

[Kossith]

my jigh achool art teacher was more interested about talking of how hard the entrcance exams will be if you apply to art-realted university than teaching us how to draw.

and younger she was so dumb that she let the students take their drawings home and someones dad did all the drawings

i pretty much dropped out drawing