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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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