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Page 1- 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!

  1. Students who always trace their artwork.

  2. Students who waste paper and throw their art away.

  3. Students who don't show their artwork to their families. It usually ends up in the bottom of their desks or in the garbage.

  4. Students who do artwork on wrinkled notebook paper with lines on it.

  5. Web pages that are interesting, and just when you are totally into them, they end.... (submitted by Jay "B."

  6. When kid's computer art programs keep kids from creating their own art by providing clip art and stamps. (submitted by Sheva Gross)


  7. People who have talent and don't use it. (submitted by Jennie Southworth)


  8. When you tell your 10 year olds in art class not to draw horses anymore and to be more creative, they draw unicorns! (submitted by Pat Reser)


  9. No matter how hard we promote, display, and teach, the budgets given us for our classroom are ridiculous. (submitted by Donna Rollins)


  10. When students do their artwork and then leave their mess for me to clean up as if I were their mother. (submitted by Ms.Spellman)


  11. Kids who don't sign their artwork. (Submitted by Miss N., Rochester City Schools)


  12. Art educators who only teach craft, and how-to projects.


  13. Art educators who aren't artists or haven't practiced in years.


  14. Art educators who teach their students formulas for how they make art.


  15. Art educators who teach the same curriculum year after year.


  16. Art educators who don't have a clue about art from the last 20 years. (All 5 submitted by Treasure Smith)


  17. Paying a fortune to go to college to get a degree and being forced to copy others "style" in order to pass. (Submitted by Angela K. White)


  18. Constantly having to justify your Visual Art Program. People still don't see the importance of the arts! (Submitted by Elissa Astorino)


  19. When people don't care and don't try to draw. (Submitted by Amy Moore)


  20. Art teachers who tell their students their art work is wrong and change it for them! I'm an artist who doesn't like the fact my daughter's Easter present was "fixed" by her teacher! She used to draw purple cats for me!! I miss her wild imagation. (Submitted by "Bystarlite")

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