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The Trials and Tribulations of Ceramics
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The Trials and Tribulations of Ceramics

So my ceramics teacher hates me, he literally hates me. He told me that my projects are crappy and that they suck and he is just rude and sarcastic all of the time. It's not unheard of for him to make people sob. Today I found out that a piece of my ceramics project came off and my teacher won't fire a broken piece. I looked at my project and realized that even though the piece fell off that it was still in tact and that it still looked like any other project. When I asked him if I could glaze and fire it he said that I could because it was still workable, but he said that it won't count as a grade and that I will get a zero on my project if I don't restart. He said that I will get points deducted because if I redo it then it will be late. So now my grade is going to get worse than it already is, GREAT! I might just be over reacting and seem whiny, but this teacher has put me through enough crap already and keeping good grades is super important to me. I already spent two weeks on this project and now I have to restart.
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One of my old art teachers was like that. She seemed nice, but she was known to tell people that they're terrible at drawing and if you ever did something wrong she would make it known to everybody and walk you around the classroom and lecture you and shit. Nobody likes her.

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(04-17-2013 10:34 AM)Alistoriv Wrote:  One of my old art teachers was like that. She seemed nice, but she was known to tell people that they're terrible at drawing and if you ever did something wrong she would make it known to everybody and walk you around the classroom and lecture you and shit. Nobody likes her.
My art teachers have always been really rude. This art teacher will get you angry enough to argue with him, and then when you do he acts all innocent and gets you in a crap ton of trouble. He told me and three other students that our projects were failures, so when I asked him what my grade is he said, "Uh, why don't you go home and look it up. You don't have to be asking me all the time." When I went to ask him about make-up work he wouldn't give me my make-up work he said I could only talk to him about it "before school, after school, and during lunch." So I ended up staying after school only to be told that my work was something that I could have done in less than a minute during class.
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Get some clay and make a Klien bottle at home using the coiling meathod (the only way that you can geometricaly make it work). Then turn that in. If he gives you a bad grade get the administration and a math teacher invloved becuase you created something above and beyond. You made something that requires a complex understanding of faces, and complex engineering. It falls into the same family as geometric anomalies such as the Mobius strip and Besides, Klein bottles are fucking sweet.

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(04-17-2013 11:04 PM)Alucard483 Wrote:  Get some clay and make a Klien bottle at home using the coiling meathod
The only problem with that is the project had to be made using the slab project. I spent hours slaving over a terrible looking goblet, but when I brought it to school he said he loved it...... First he tells me that all of my projects suck, and then when I turn in yet another crappy project he suddenly loves it. I'm so confused.
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Quote:He told me and three other students that our projects were failures

To work hierarchical systems, you have to understand the pressure points. He has apparent absolute power and you seem to have no recourse. If you complain to his boss (pressure point) you will be ignored and seen as a trouble maker.

However, if you get the other three people and all four of you approach his boss, not to complain, but to express your "concern" that he may be losing it and asking if something can be done to "help" him, you might find that you could get him to back off a little. The problem with a "power play" is:

1. It can have unintended or unexpected results.
2. Those who you think are supporting you can abandon you and leave you hanging.
3. You can be targeted for revenge.
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(04-19-2013 02:26 AM)timf Wrote:  
Quote:He told me and three other students that our projects were failures

To work hierarchical systems, you have to understand the pressure points. He has apparent absolute power and you seem to have no recourse. If you complain to his boss (pressure point) you will be ignored and seen as a trouble maker.

However, if you get the other three people and all four of you approach his boss, not to complain, but to express your "concern" that he may be losing it and asking if something can be done to "help" him, you might find that you could get him to back off a little. The problem with a "power play" is:

1. It can have unintended or unexpected results.
2. Those who you think are supporting you can abandon you and leave you hanging.
3. You can be targeted for revenge.

This teacher is loved by a lot of students and teachers because they find his rudeness and sarcasm funny, and the other students who were also targeted by him are not very...accountable...people. I would be labeled a liar. If it were any other teacher, your method would work.
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The Trials and Tribulations of Ceramics

If I were you I'd just turn in the project as it is and to hell with what that teacher thinks. (Seriously, he sounds like a hellacious dick.) Grades are simply numbers. I suppose they help when applying for college (which is really their only useful function), but it's not like failing this one project is going to ruin your grade, right? You can always make it up later.

Then again, you could say that money is just numbers, too. 'Course, grades have little impact in determining one's future success (in the real world anyway), whereas money makes the world go 'round as we all know.
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