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Teachers, staff, and parents who think you are the "real" art teacher's assistant.





Classroom teachers who resent you "messing up" their room or taking away their planning time; as if we wouldn't give anything to have a room of our own.





Administrators who schedule art teachers on carts to be at opposite ends of the building, sometimes on different floors, with only five minutes between classes. (The three above peeves were submitted by AMANDA.)





My Pet Peeve is Art Educators who take themselves too seriously! Yes, we all agree that art is important and valuable, but you have to put things into perspective. Relax, have fun in class! Art is fun and should be fun! (Submitted by Brodey2727)





Principal gives away the kiln, because he didn't know what it was. (Submitted by Martha, art teacher)





Students who, even after 1,000 reminders, still press as hard as they can with their pencil and then have "shadows" on their finished art!





Administrators who want you to have a "standardized Fine Arts test" by Monday but wait until the Friday before to let you know.




Students who put their unwashed paint tray on the bottom of the stack. (3 Submitted by Ami Murray)





Having classes of up to 26 students with a total range of abilities and maturity with who I am supposed to accomplish something in a time span of (believe it or not) 20 minutes to 45 minutes while the Gifted and Talented teacher gets, say at the most, 6 students to work with and they end up doing art prjects that she proudly shows me!!! (Submitted by Judy Cardassilaris)





Regular classroom teachers who think art in-service meetings are a bore and they don't have time to intergrate art into the subjects, yet will do stupid color sheets and say "Look, we did art today." (Submitted by "DKB Art Teacher")





I hate it when I show my parents my report card filled with A's and one B in art and they can't believe it, because "art is such a simple class." (Submitted by Tuscany)





Students who rush through a project just to be through and turn it in. They usually then complain about their grade! (Submitted by Kay Barrow, high school teacher)





My pet peeve is that we, as educators, are required to be the ones to solve all of the problems that our students come to class with. If a student won't work, it's because we're not challenging him enough, not because he stayed up till midnight watching R-rated movies! The broken families, abuse, poverty, amoral teaching in the home, drug culture, etc. is sending those problems to the classroom and we can't be the sole responsibility for solving those problems! (Submitted by Anne Hawkins of Bryson Elementary School, South Carolina)





Not even having an art teacher or art program in either of our K-5 elementary schools. (An anonymous submission)





I have a daugher in 4th grade ...loves to draw, maybe hasn't got a whole lot of "talent", and not once, not one single time has she had her art displayed at school. Always the same 20 kids. Nauseating. (Submitted by "Grand99")





Students who are chronic disrupters and are obliged to remain in the Art classroom and prevent the other students from receiving the lesson and myself from teaching... (Submitted by Fred Hinkley)





Teachers who think art teachers don't write lesson plans. Administrators who have no clue what is going on in your classroom when they have a copy of your curriculum collecting dust in their office. (Submitted by M. Womble)





People who have no talent or desire in Art try to tell you how to draw, paint, etc. If they aren't artists who are they to tell you what good Art?! (Submitted by M.Morley)





I love teaching visual arts, and after 12 years I have lost sympathy for the groaning (and learned helplessness) of colleagues about "awful" students. Only a very few of the students at our huge highschool are really difficult. The rest are lively teenagers who deserve to be taught by teachers with decent preparation and delivery skills and an understanding of their clientele. After all, teaching is a vocation and a profession, not a clerical position! We'll never have enough money or time but we can pass on a passion for something that enriches our lives...and when we do most problems seem to evaporate. (An anonymous submission)





on a lighter note, I do hate the fact that just as students are really learning at full steam they graduate from school and go to art college! (An anonymous submission)

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