Page 2- The
pet peeves below were submitted by
people
around the world, both teachers and students. We thank you for your
submissions! We sincerely hope that those who
submitted them were able to blow off some steam and feel better now. We
also
hope that those who are reading these will also feel better. Enjoy!
- Birds drawn that
look like "V" birds (or "W" birds) and
students who chop up erasers with their scissors. (submitted by Steve
Shenefiel)
- How about galleries that won't consider viewing a
web site.
'Twenty slides only please!'. The question is, if you were a serious
art collector, wouldn't you want to be working with a gallery able to
keep up with modern tech? (submitted by Steve King)
- When a person tears the labels off of crayons
(etc.) and
one cannot tell if they are blue, black, or purple. (Submitted by "Aaron the student" or "Aaron da superfreak"-
your choice.)
- Students who tear down or vandalize art work that
is the
hallway. (Submitted by Laura Rhodes-Kiser Middle School, Dayton, Ohio.)
- When I read art curricula and publications
(including those
from my board of ed) that say art teachers must provide students with a "variety of art materials" when
I don't even receive enough money to provide the bare necessities like paper!
Last year I received $1.75 per
child to provide a year's worth of art experiences! Needless to say, it
was impossible to do so without spending a good part of my salary.
(Submitted by Carolyne Tighe, art teacher in an intermediate public
school)
- I got a D because my 7th grade teacher was a jerk.
From
that moment on I knew I was not an arteest...even though that is
exactly what I am at heart, I just couldn't draw the way he expected me
to draw. (Submitted by Lynn in Madison, Wisconsin)
- Administrators who believe the only duty an art
teacher has
is BULLETIN BOARDS and decorating for every single holiday and season.
[Forgetting the teaching of all students in a building, keeping
records, doing report cards, hall duty, coordinating department
meetings, etc.] (Submitted by Sarah K. of Utica, N.Y.)
- The day you start painting with watercolors, they
turn off
all of the water in the building. (Submitted by Laura Walker)
- Students who still don't understand that a
painting needs
to be painted--in other words, a student who paints a beautiful alien
and says "I'm finished", when all I can see is the vast expanse of
white paper left around the alien!! (Submitted by Nancy Tompkins,
Hoboken, NJ.)
- Students who come into class, plop down, and
immediately
start thumping on the table with their fingers as if playing the "tableh" (the
Arabic drum with the sheepship on the top and open bottom). (Submitted by M.
Shukri)
- When administrators take your art room away and
require "Art on a Cart", without realizing how difficult it is to manage your
classes and supplies without a place to call home, unless you call the
stage in the cafeteria
(you share with the gym teacher and a hundred different types of balls)
home. Maybe the administrators should try it first! (Submitted by
Stephanie W.)
- Students whose un-finished artwork is "good
enough".
(Submitted by Robert Lange in Athens)
- Art teachers who crumple up any darwing I make
that wasn't "What I asked for". (Submitted by "Hurricane")
- My biggest pet peeve about being in art education
is that
the so-called "regular" classroom teachers routinely refer to me as
"JUST the art teacher" (Submitted by Debbi in Indiana)
- My pet peeve is students who take art as an "easy-out" and
who would rather not be in school anyways. They are usually disruptive
and prevent the students who want to learn from getting the attention
they deserve. I swear that sometimes 90% of my time was usurped by
these poor kids (yes, I do have empathy for their poor life situations,
but I'm there to teach ART!) Lack of administrative support drained me
of the desire to pursue this field any further after my student
teaching experience. (Submitted by Joe Hubbard)
- Administrators who don't realize that you have a
planned
curriculum and are
always suggesting ideas for painting hallways to spruce the place up a
bit. (Submitted by Carole Neff)
- People who try to define "good" art and "bad" art.
(Submitted by Lee Luckeydoo)
- I am a student and my biggest pet peeve is art
teachers
who, if your art isn't "perfect", show you how it "should be done"!
Does the word CREATIVITY ring a bell? (Submitted by Haley Henderson)
- Students who cut a 2" shape from the MIDDLE of a
12"x18" piece of paper.
- Students who poke their pencils, scissors, or
whatever into
the glue bottles.
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