perplexed
I’m perplexed today. I had another strange day at school. My teacher is still going on and on about this other student to a degree that i find uncomfortable. She is changing the curriculum of the class so that she can have back up if she decides to fail the student in question. Today in class she gave a ‘pop quiz’. Everyone but one person failed and the teacher wrote FAIL across the drawing. I can’t even begin to say how wrong that is. So after class I went to talk to the teacher about this issue. I tried to explain to her that I found it very harsh and unfair to have art be judged as PASS/FAIL. She went on to tell me it’s her safeguard against this other student (who by the way got up and left the class after she received her FAIL) and that she [teacher] wants to teach like they do in Europe. Many thoughts went through my head- one being, why are we suffering because of her disagreement with this other student, and this is a community college… in the USA. I am all for learning different ways- but I don’t think it’s fair to switch curriculum in the last part of the class…. BUT I’m not the teacher, I am a student. I am no longer enjoying this class and I will not take it next fall. I am doing this for fun- and to enrich my life not cause stress and make me feel as though i have ‘failed’ at art. I don’t need that in my life. I like a challenge especially if I learn something from it. But i don’t need grief in my life- especially from something that should be wonderful. I have 3 more classes to go- and then I’m done.
anyway- off to take G to Build A Bear.
T