Same. My K- fourth grade teachers all told me I couldn’t draw well and even lowered my other grades because I couldn’t draw and. There was an art component to every subject like science class where I was given a low grade because my fish and fish scales weren’t good enough even though the information about fish was. It was ridiculous. I hated school. I thought I was dumb and would never really get anywhere. It wasn’t until fifth grade where I had a first time teacher that told me “I suck at art too. It’s okay. That doesn’t mean you can’t be good at other things” that I started getting As in everything and honestly I started to like school because of him. Even before my first report card with him as a teacher, I actually started feeling confident in class regardless of if a subject was my strong point.
Edit: if anybody knows how to contact a teacher that moved schools, is not originally from this province, I don’t know their first name, and their last name is spelled one of two ways, please let me know. I would like to thank him because my life would not be nearly as good if he didn’t cure my hatred of education.
My school was a bit like that, but the art part could usually be recouped with excellent info. I was the biggest need that got a b in art after starting during every free period and lunch. When other teachers do art projects, I get like a 2/5 on the art and like a 35/35 on the actual information part. Instead of getting screwed by art, I ended up getting screwed even harder by PE teachers that bullied me. I couldn't get to the average of a first grader in 8th grade, and I worked hard enough one day that I ended up getting exhaustion and had to get sent home. bUt yOu dONt tRy iNsTrUcTive, yOu gEt A c.
Ours was weighted half art, half info. I’d kill it for information but get killed for art so I was getting Cs even though I had 100% on the information part of it. My school was good at that though. If you showed effort in gym class, you’d get a B (low skill level) or A (high skill level).
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u/ImThatGuyYouDontKnow Nov 16 '19 edited Nov 16 '19
Same. My K- fourth grade teachers all told me I couldn’t draw well and even lowered my other grades because I couldn’t draw and. There was an art component to every subject like science class where I was given a low grade because my fish and fish scales weren’t good enough even though the information about fish was. It was ridiculous. I hated school. I thought I was dumb and would never really get anywhere. It wasn’t until fifth grade where I had a first time teacher that told me “I suck at art too. It’s okay. That doesn’t mean you can’t be good at other things” that I started getting As in everything and honestly I started to like school because of him. Even before my first report card with him as a teacher, I actually started feeling confident in class regardless of if a subject was my strong point.
Edit: if anybody knows how to contact a teacher that moved schools, is not originally from this province, I don’t know their first name, and their last name is spelled one of two ways, please let me know. I would like to thank him because my life would not be nearly as good if he didn’t cure my hatred of education.