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When custodians act like the world has come to an end if there is any little bit of waterbased paint drippings on your classroom floor. Then follows up by saying it took him all summer to get that floor waxed and last week the floor didn't look like this! Its like, well duh! This is an art room, we do paint things, and last week we did not paint! I feel like saying, what is your job again? And I am terribly OCD with the way my room looks! That custodian really has it good!! -(from disgruntled art teacher)




My biggest pet peeve is being given the smallest room in the school with NO windows, and NO water, bad lighting, not to mention no floor space (with five tables crammed in the room, I can barely teach, let alone manuever around the students!!)

Another pet peeve is when parents complain because you've given their "angel" a poor grade (because of destructive and
behavioral issues in your classroom, not to mention NEVER finishing a project and goofing off instead). I had one set of parents say "Art is not important, anyway!" When I tried to explain the poor grade was because the child purposely ruined others artwork and my art supplies and never did anything in class, they tried to pull the race card on me! RIDICULOUS! Finally, at last year's art show, the principal had the school custodians mopping and sweeping the floors during the exhibit time! When I complained, she answered, "Well, this is the time they NORMALLY come!" AAAUUUGGGHHH!

Y' know that teeny tiny art room? Well, it's soooo small, this morning I tripped over some art supplies (because I have NO storage space), and fell and hit my head on the corner of one of the art tables SO HARD, I MOVED THE TABLE! You should see the HUGE bruise I have on my head! Do you think that's proof enough???? Hope so!
( SOOZ)



My pet peeve (among many others already listed) is the ridiculous amount of "Art Contest" literature I receive throughout the year. Talk about a waste of paper. I participated once, to appease the administration. The kids (K-5) worked their little hearts out for some paltry reward, no one won and we didn't even get a thank you from the "multi-million-dollar-making" corporate sponsors. And of course, the artwork becomes advertising property of said corporation, never to be returned. Oh yeah, they do a lot of good for the kids, those thieves. -DV



The elementary art teachers in my district are teaching 9 thirty-minute art classes a day because this is the contractual planning period for classroom teachers. -Meg



Kids who ask me "Is this good?" . I really hate that question. But at the same time it's an opportunity to teach them that they have to answer that question for themselves. Often though there isn't much time to really explore that thought. After several months of classes, most have learned not to ask this.

District administrators and city officials who spout rhetoric about "supporting the arts" when I am teaching art as a volunteer because as a full time artist, I live in a district that with 50 elementary schools serving aprox. 50,000 students that doesn’t have a single paid art specialist or a dedicated art room in any of it’s 50 schools. Not one. But we have standards. Yup!

When I go into the "supply" room and there is no white paper but the shelves are lined with box after box of white board markers in all the colors of the rainbow.

(Not a peeve- kids who tell me they want to be an artist when they grow up.) -Glennis

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