#but I’m sorry didn’t I do all these fundraisers and give stuff to teachers whe. asked

[carpthecarp]

Ap art was the biggest waste of time ever.

I’m gonna rant about my art department for a minute 😝

So I live in a town that’s very split when it comes to income, there’s a part of town that’s rich and a part of town that’s not “poor” but definitely not like well off, and I lived there for a while. Then there’s the middle of the two, so like well off but not rich, which is kinda where I’m at right now. Ok so, bc of that, our school system is rlly rlly split. I’m sure this is the same in many other towns but it’s like particularly bad here and I’m saying that with confidence bc I have pals in other school systems and my moms a principal. So the budgeting is weird, the rich part of town goes to one elementary school then the other part goes to another. I used to be in the richer area bc the richer areas kinda small so it shares a school with other areas. That school is BEAUTIFUL it’s so nice with updated tech and all kinds of shit and it’s the biggest school we have outside of the hs. Ok so you get what I’m saying. The wealthier the area the better the school. So the hs is very split and the town meetings are mostly run by these ppl with higher incomes. So the budgeting basically only goes to sports or like updated computers (this is a good thing). Recently they’ve been giving a bit more to the arts department but it’s basically just been going to the digital arts department. Our arts department isn’t underfunded tbh I wouldn’t call it that but it definitely could be better. We have a lack of classes for kids who are srs about art, and just a bunch of electives for kids who want to stack their schedules. There’s no color theory classes or history classes or stuff that’s going to help ppl who want to major in it. And yeah I get that you could consider those college classes but we have stuff like that for like every other type of major (music, business, English, etc.)

Ok so here’s my beef with the art department. I went in there. FRESHMAN YEAR. Saying I wanted to be an art major. This was Covid era so whatever not much happened. Then sophomore year I started doing real big girl art classes oooo. My teacher was chill at first but then she started to piss me off right. So like she very clearly had two favorites. Which was whatever, but the issue was I would ask to draw link or something and she would say no bc copyright, but then let this other kid do it. She like always targeted me with this shit it was so fucking annoying. She said it was bc I wanted to major in art, but I changed my mind and she kept doing this. I never submitted a portfolio so this was useless and just caused me useless stress. Also it was my art style that she hated, bc I couldn’t draw my ocs either. She said my art was too “anime” and made me do realism in her class. My digital art teacher sorta saved my life with this bc she let me do whatever in her class and gave me a place to actually have fun with art in school.

Flash forward to senior year, she leaves bc she gets sick. We get a sub who I love love love loved she was the absolute best. I would have dropped AP art if it wasn’t for her, she was the best art teacher I’ve had, I adore her all good things. However. My digital art teacher started going crazy (no hate to her I love her she just stressed me out a lot) and would make me redo projects like 50 times but it was just me she was targeting. She would make me do competitions when I didn’t want to and entered stuff I begged her to not use and it was a whole thing. There was the big senior showcase drama at the end of the year it was just a lot. All of this combined over the span of 4 years just like killed my love for art so I refused to apply to art school which is now a big regret of mine bc I prob could have gotten a scholarship tbh 😝 it was rough. And then at the end of the year at our senior showcases our old art teacher came and looked at every showcase but walked by mine and refused to look. So! Hs art killed my love for art and now it’s coming back bc I met my college professors and they seem awesome. Anyways here’s some of the stuff I did in hs that got me shit and what I would have used for a portfolio but couldn’t use. Also my counselor wouldn’t help me make a portfolio which is another reason why I couldn’t apply to art school, bc I literally didn’t know how to and had no art teacher!!!

Whatever tho, I don’t need to be happy who cares right.

OH so ap art was the biggest waste btw bc i did t learn shit in hs art like I mean I was never taught anything I’m completely self taught I never watched videos or anything I just learned by copying photos. And I got a 4 on the exam and it did t get me out of intro to drawing classes in college, so yeah,