It has been over a decade, I'm still salty. #art

Materials: Gouache (holbein, winsor and newton) gum arabic, paul ruben iridescent paper, princeton brushes

Word on the Street is: I guess art directors have never liked me, huh...

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[kkderobst]

Howdy! You can find the original and prints of this in my store at kkderobst.com, and you can find me on insta at kkderobst!

[bimbology_]

Reminds me of my Spanish teacher. It seemed like she cared about me in a motherly sense because I was a very reserved and hardworking student. But in the middle of the semester she got report cards for the entire class. I don't know why she was responsible for them when we usually got them from our last period teacher. But I remember getting called up to her desk to recieve mine. Keep in mind I had an A in her class. But a couple of my other grades (Math and English) weren't doing great. She asked me sternly "Why are you not doing well in these classes?" And I responded honestly "I've had a lot going on at home and I promise you I'm trying my best but I've been struggling to understand certain things." I trusted her enough to be vulnerable with the fact that I'm not always okay which was hard for me. She proceeded to narrow her eyes and reply "That isn't an excuse." Those 4 words shattered me. After that I excused myself to the restroom and sobbed because the one time I decided to open up I felt shot down. And after that day I just couldn't see her in the same light again. I don't know if her kids (who also attended the school she teached in) were struggling with their classes and stressed her out but this raises an important question. Why is it hard for teachers to look at the kid with a history of being a good, hardworking student and remember those efforts when the student occasionally slips up? Meanwhile the students who go out of their way to behave poorly have one good day and they get special benefits. You can say it's to reinforce good behavior but I'd argue that the bad student acknowledges how the consistently good kids don't get the same benefits. So acting a fool and disrupting class benefits them more than constantly being on their best behavior. Anyways that's all I have to say.

[Mldy-FleshCoud]

Something similar happened with me and my art teacher. I started developing a disability and I collapsed on the floor and my art teacher told me she would call my dad. TWO HOURS LATER she calls him but not before I was left alone in this hallway with no teachers around at the very back of the school, she had left to go cover another class. This is the same woman who told me I wasn't allowed to stay outside her class for more than 15 minutes while I was crying outside her class on another day. I was also scolded by her for having my phone out. Was I just supposed to sit there??? And cry???

[SillyGoose-pwce]

That really sucks. I hate it when people just judge things based on one person's perspective.

[adumbooctopus]

Adults having beef with literal children is always wild to me.

[trixiemattel]

✨Im sorry miss but I wasnt the one cheating on you✨😭

[shinysmeargle]

The same thing happened to me in highschool! I signed up to do comics for my school’s newsletter as a grade for journalism. Some guy joined in on the comics because he thought it would be “easy” (his words) and he would constantly belittle or criticize what I drew and wrote despite him not doing anything to help with it. Then the teacher got mad at me because he told her I didn’t let him do anything to help with the comic.

[BoxOKittens]

Mine was back in the early 00's when I came out as a lesbian and I found out how many teachers I loved suddenly wanted me expelled.

[MivieiraC]

Quite the opposite in my case. I hated my female math teacher cause i thought she hated me to. Only realised later after we got 2 that the male Math teacher hated me even more and said if i get an 5 in class work i fail everything. The Female Math Teacher gave me an 1 so in the End i was able to get my secondary school diploma
(Dunno if thats the right translation for Realschulabschluss lol)
Still very thankfull to her. Cried in class when she said she was proud of me.

[EvanBonds]

I had a vice principal that i LOVED when i was in elementary but this one kid (to put it lightly) made me extremely uncomfortable and did things to me that effect me to yhis day. Qfter 8 months of torture i finally went to her and she listened. She didn't punish him but did give him a 30 foot rule, where he couldn't come near me. Which worked in my little kid brain. (But was definitely not enough for what he did to me)

But the very next school year, she put him in my class. Without telling a single teacher what he did to me. On meet the teacher night I found my assigned seat, it was right next to him. And that's when I experienced my first panic attack.

I could never look at that vice principal the same. She betrayed me.

[theJellyBeanies]

There was this teacher i used to like because she helped me alot in my Filipino since im terrible at speaking it. One day she was our devotions teacher and she told us we had to pick a verse and find out the meaning. I chose one, i found out the meaning, i wrote on a long paragraph, i showed it to her, and then she said i was wrong. She told me her version and it was completely literal (the verse was a metaphor). She made me change it to her answer which was one sentence long. There were so many similar incidents with this teacher and i just never looked at her the same way again 😓

[Batmonthesequel]

Gotta love having to navigate adults’ unresolved insecurities as a child. So universal.

[ilovemydog]

That reply is hilarious! 😂😂 I definitely got a couple of those stories too. It’s always so sad when the nice teacher becomes not so nice😅

[jigen]

It's beautiful. Love the soft serve hair! Regarding the story it looks like the teacher couldn't be assed to learn both sides of the story, probably a case of "wanting quiet, not fair".

[vacafuega]

Oof yeah. An encounter like that shaped my lifelong commitment to justice when she horribly betrayed 7-year old me to my bullies. Oof.

[WickerOSeer]

I got a story from second grade (when I was like 8). My teacher was normally the absolute nicest guy, the cool teacher everyone loved. One day, I had to leave school a bit early for some appointment, which he was informed of. The time comes in the middle of story time. I raise my hand to tell him, and he just yells at me, asking how whatever I was going to say could possibly be more important than the story he was telling.

I don’t remember if anything in particular happened to upset him or if I’d been misbehaving that day or whatever. I just remember him snapping at me, an 8-year-old, seemingly out of nowhere for having the *audacity* to think my doctor’s appointment was more important than his picture book. Out of that whole school year, that moment is the one thing that really stuck with me.

[aqfanatic]

my moment like this was when my teacher assumed that i was dawdling on purpose with my classroom job because i was doing it really slowly.
i’m autistic and would not be diagnosed until 12 years later as an adult. i genuinely just move and think really slowly, but because i worked hard no one ever noticed.
she decided that my birthday was the day to fire me from the job. first thing in the morning. i dissociated and did a sock puppet motion with my hand while she was talking to self soothe.
all hell broke loose after that. she was sobbing, she wrote on my report card that i might not be as good with others as she thought, my mom was angry at me.
and then the next day everyone acted like nothing happened.
a week later i realized from how she was talking that she didn’t even realize that the day it happened and my birthday were the same day.
she just became another adult in the long list of people who i had to expect would snap at me at any moment and then pretend it didn’t happen the next.

[MinaF]

I had a home ec teacher i loved until we were on a class trip and I got such autistic overwhelm that I started crying and got really upset (I was around 15, I was pretty good at masking and keeping my cool as long as I was in a situation that was familiar) and she was like “woow, I really thought you were stronger than this, you’re not who I thought you were” and I was like “gee thanks for the salt in the wounds, I didn’t think you were like this either” (in my mind ofc). I’m still salty about it :(

[Ottos]

Reminds me of a geography teacher I had. We were in class one day at the end of the year doing some "fun" classwork as most of us had finished our final projects. One boy was to talking to another and said "oh my daze" and the teacher just went mad. We were left in class alone for what felt like the entire hour while he dragged this boy to the headteacher. It was weird because its not like we weren't allowed to say "oh my god"... he stopped being my favourite teacher in that moment

[BloodSunBlast]

😂 my favorite art teacher, she was so laid back. She didn't care what you drew as long as you were doing something.

She got arrested for doing drugs while teaching. I miss her.

The art teacher that took her place hated me because i refused to work with messy material. Pastel, charcoal. Cause it wasn't new. The moment she introduced a new thing we never did before i jumped at it.

But yeah, she hated me.