r/worldnewsvideo • u/PlenitudeOpulence Plenty š©ŗš§¬š • May 06 '22
Feel-Good š How she begins every art class
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u/8lbmaul May 06 '22
Poor lady putting her heart and soul into a job that most likely pays 14 an hour.
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u/PlenitudeOpulence Plenty š©ŗš§¬š May 06 '22
It seems like she loves what she doesā¦ so it probably makes the pain of poor wages barely tolerable.
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u/8lbmaul May 06 '22
Yeah. Made me think of the saying if you find what you love you'll never work a day in your life.
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u/Hoovooloo42 May 06 '22
My girlfriend is a teacher. We run into her coworkers working behind bars, at grocery stores and waiting tables after hours.
"Teach the next generation and you'll have to pick up a second job to make ends meet" should be the new saying.
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u/8lbmaul May 06 '22
I don't think it's limited to teaching. Don't a lot of cops do security gigs on the side?
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u/Unforg1ven_Yasuo May 06 '22
Thatās just so they can get their daily fix of beating up poor people
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u/8lbmaul May 06 '22
Lol. Either way my point is that wages aren't what they should be across a wide range of professions.
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May 07 '22
And cops are not one of those professions.
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u/8lbmaul May 07 '22
In my state the average salary is around 67k. Thats not enough to get me to risk my life everday
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May 07 '22
Well, the police are way over-funded and our public school systems are way under-funded. If they can keep us dumb they can keep us down.
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u/8lbmaul May 07 '22
They maybe over funded but I always thought thats because they choose to blow their entire budgets on military grade surplus equipment
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u/SoggyNach0s May 06 '22
I canāt think of a job I would rather do than what I currently do. Itās still work, that saying is total bullshit.
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May 06 '22
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May 07 '22
Bro people literally play video games for a living and a ton of them have come forward about not being able to enjoy games anymore because all they think about is āwould this make good contentā āwould this game sellā āis this marketableā etc. Lifetime gamers. Work is work. Think of all the writers who have said they canāt read for fun anymore. The directors who canāt watch movies without noting what they wouldāve done. Retired athletes that donāt have fun doing their sport anymore. Grow up.
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u/Self_World_Future May 07 '22
Well if itās any consolation for the pessimistic, if someoneās able to make a profit from there craft thereās bound to be someone out there whose simply able to enjoy their own business.
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May 07 '22
Donāt get me wrong, I love writing and art and thatās what I do, hopefully to turn into my career and not have a side job, but doing art professionally and trying to finish a book to get published have absolutely changed the way I think about it. Doing it for work and for leisure absolutely feels different. Iām honored that people are willing to pay for my art but itās still work. A commission is usually not something I wouldāve done without the person paying me. Itās never as fun as when I do it just cause I want to and I genuinely cant enjoy reading or watching things as much as I used to without thinking about writing mistakes, cliches used, poorly executed exposition in scripts. I sit there through the book, show, or movie guessing most of whatās gonna happen cause itās what I wouldāve written and catching onto things meant to be more subtle cause I know how you hide them in the book or script.
Iām not saying they hate their medium because it became their job, but it is never the same activity as it was before you were paid for it. That was what I was trying to convey
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u/hairybushy May 06 '22
As someone that lost approx. 30% of salary to do a new job, I do less money, but I am happier and I have less anxiety. Money isn't everything. Sure you need to do enough to have a decent life and eat well, but you make some sacrifice and it become natural with time
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u/Rasalom May 06 '22
Er, no, money literally keeps you alive. By all means, demand more from your jobs if you're not being paid enough.
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May 06 '22
theyre probably being paid enough itās just simply not as well-paying of a job. for example going from computer scientist to child care is a huge step down in pay fields but you might feel better doing it because you hated your job before and enjoy children
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u/Rasalom May 06 '22
Nowadays most jobs aren't paid well, so it's not wise to step down any amount to pursue some interest, especially teaching, an increasingly thankless job.
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May 06 '22
i think if you hate your job and itās making you depressed and wonder why you even get up in the morning, you should absolutely change jobs IF you have the means. itās not worth being miserable
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u/Rasalom May 06 '22
Yeah but was never the point. That's getting out of a shitty job, not quitting a job with higher pay to pursue some dream job.
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May 07 '22
sometimes the shitty job is the job with higher pay.
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u/Rasalom May 07 '22
Yeah but at that point you can make that decision. The point originally was leaving a higher paying job for a potentially more fulfilling one, which is honestly crazy in today's world and really bad advice. Keep the higher pay and fund a hobby outside of work.
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u/Shutterstormphoto May 06 '22
Did you go from $15/hr to $10/hr or more like $100/hr to $70/hr?
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u/hairybushy May 06 '22
27 USD to 17 USD, perhaps 27 was my top salary at the moment and 17 was the first step in the salary chart. In approx 10 years I will reach the 27 USD.
In my area 27/h USD is a good salary and 17 is decent
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u/Shutterstormphoto May 07 '22
Fair enough. It sounds like quite a drop but it mustāve been pretty rough to want to trade down that much.
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u/hairybushy May 07 '22
Yeah but we made a budget and my girlfriend have a good salary, so we changed some things to help. I went back to school, so when I finished we put a year on the side to pile a cashdown. We bought a house last year, we got 2 children. We are not rich but we can live well. I am a little limited in my english so I can't explain with the right words, but we had like 4 rough years while I was back at school. I dropped more than 30% at the start but right now it's approx. 30% less. But in construction I was too anxious, I wasn't happy with all the hours. I regret nothing.
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u/b_lett May 06 '22 edited May 06 '22
Contrary to belief, it's all about where you teach. Some states pay teachers great. Some states pay them trash. I'm from North Carolina and teachers don't get paid enough here, we are almost dead last in the country. It's also hard to tell if she's in a public or private school, which could make a huge difference regarding her compensation.
Overall, teachers deserve more, but in some states and some schools, they actually do pay decently. My wife's parents are teachers near D.C. and they are well off.
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May 06 '22
No worries. Once the conservatives find out about her she will be fired. Obviously, she is a lesbian indoctrinating the children
/s
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u/Mochigood May 06 '22
Look at her using social and emotional learning! They've banned that in super patriotic God fearing Florida! Just one step from CRT! /s
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u/XaoticOrder May 06 '22
Unless she is a sub she is most likely making way more than 14 an hour. Still not enough to deal with what most teachers deal with on a daily basis.
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u/SoggyNach0s May 06 '22
Your āway moreā estimate is way off.
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u/XaoticOrder May 06 '22
There is this
https://www.salary.com/research/salary/recruiting/elementary-art-teacher-salary
Depending on location it can be upwards of 10 dollars more an hour. My rough math is minimally 17 an hour. Still not enough and I'd agree 17 is not way more. But 14 is inaccurate. Dazzle them with facts. Don't be wrong with emotion.
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u/SoggyNach0s May 06 '22
Right on, location is a definite factor. My wife had to fight for 17/hr when she was a teacher. Insane. This was OKC though very top of the list of underpaid teachers and undereducated students.
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u/XaoticOrder May 06 '22
Yeah it's sad what teachers are paid. Especially when you go South and West. Close friend makes roughly 110K a year after 19 as a Social Studies teacher in New York while another makes 49K in Maryland after 7 years as a Physics teacher. But are we surprised. They don't really want well paid teachers, then the kids might get a better education and they don't want smart forward thinking children.
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u/8lbmaul May 06 '22
I really hope so. I have no idea what the average wages are for teachers, but I know its not enough.
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u/XaoticOrder May 06 '22
I've found this
https://www.salary.com/research/salary/recruiting/elementary-art-teacher-salary
Seems to equate to roughly 17 to 23 an hour. Still not enough.
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u/8lbmaul May 06 '22
Definitely not. These people are shaping the future of our country, they should be compensated as such. Meanwhile there's people who sit in their private offices making 100x's as much just for dictating what others do. The system is cancerous and requires intervention.
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u/XaoticOrder May 06 '22
Yes but I'd say the system is acting exactly how "They" want it to. Better educated children is not something I think America wants.
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u/8lbmaul May 06 '22
Agreed. It's what I want and I'd say what the "people" want. But "they" know it's easier to stay in power when the " people" aren't capable of asking questions or standing up for themselves.
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u/wildwildwaste May 07 '22
And this is the exact reason why universal basic income will lead to a happier populace. Some will abuse it because there's always assholes but it's been proven time and again that the overwhelming majority will just go do things that they love and are passionate about.
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u/b_lett May 06 '22
Really appreciate that she highlights that it's okay to make messes and mistakes in life, the opposite of what the rest of the education system and society pressures us to believe. Failure can be the greatest teacher. We aren't perfect and we need those opportunities to fail forward. Everyone who is great at anything wasn't at one point. Whether these kids go on to do art or not, it's a universal lesson.
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u/--TenguDruid-- May 07 '22
I'm a teacher and if you ask my students what my favorite thing is, they'll answer: "WHEN WE MAKE MISTAKES!"
It's so important to accept mistakes as part of the process of improving yourself and getting things right, and I can absolutely see that in my kids. One of my boys was terrified of reading English out loud (we're in Norway) because he felt he was so shit at English, but after talking with him about it and showing him with the other students how much I like it when someone gets something wrong so we can correct it, he's now one of the kids who's instantly got his hand up when it comes time to read texts out loud.
Just a tiny little thing like that can do wonders to a kids confidence, knowing that their mistakes aren't the opposite of progress or getting it right, but rather part of it, and that it helps their fellow students each time we get to correct something together.
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u/senectus May 07 '22
Yup I tell my kids, the fastest way to learn and get Better is to try and fail but learn from your failure. I want them to make mistakes in life, just to make sure they learn from them
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u/commonEraPractices May 06 '22
If I had a time machine, I'd travel back to when I was their age, I'd take my child self back to the present and get my sibling to adopt me, just to enroll myself in her classes and gladly watch my adult version of myself disappear. If I could start over, I'd want that kind of personality as a teacher.
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u/human_finger May 06 '22
This guy already planning how to kidnap himself.
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u/commonEraPractices May 06 '22
Could you imagine my parents? I'd appear on milk cartons until this year, decades later, I'm found but I look exactly the same way as the day I was kidnapped...
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u/jondough23 May 06 '22
The class leave the art class and return to home room, the homeroom teacher is that teacher from Mitilda. What you doing
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u/RobotCounselor May 06 '22
We all need to advocate to save the fine arts programs in public schools.
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u/MiyamotoKnows May 06 '22
Hard to imagine that there is a reasonably large group of Americans that would find some kind of issue in a teacher instilling self confidence and promoting the arts. This is an amazing teacher and there are others like her. Let's protect them from those who have made their political agenda the destruction of our education system.
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May 06 '22
I really wish I could win the lottery one day just so I could give it to people who actually deserve it. Maybe even use those funds to create private schools that are free to attend for underprivileged kids. It blows my mind that teachers, EMS, janitors, etc donāt get paid much more than their stateās minimum wage.
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u/Late_Act5066 May 06 '22
She is amazing! Helping the children see how amazing they are! They will always remember this!
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May 06 '22
I'd love to do this, really I would.
Sadly I live in America and I like eating food and being able to pay bills so š¤·āāļø
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u/Captain_Plutonium May 07 '22
The message of this is great, but I would have hated having to do it as a child...
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u/Impossible-Smile5116 May 06 '22 edited May 07 '22
Why does she have a Euro currency sign on her neck
Edit: it's not a Euro sign, it's a British pound
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May 06 '22
I know she looks awesome, but something about this video makes me want to throw her colored pencils out the window and say shhhhh.
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u/Gertruder6969 May 07 '22
Maybe itās cus sheās clearly sick and decided to not wear a mask in a room full of kids
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u/dogsdub May 06 '22
I dont like her
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u/PotBoozeNKink May 06 '22
Why not? And why should we care?
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u/dogsdub May 06 '22
Well I think most people just take what looks line a positive thing and seem to justo love it. And if someone else disagrees, they are aweful. Count the downvotes on my previous post. I didnt say I hated her or anything bad about her. Just that I didnt like her, and I dont.
Most people would rally around their feelings, thats how they get used by all kinds of political bullshit, incapable of thinking for themselfes.
I find it funny, Im an artist
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u/PotBoozeNKink May 06 '22 edited May 06 '22
Well I think most people just take what looks line a positive thing and seem to justo love it. And if someone else disagrees, they are aweful
Whats wrong with teaching kids to love and be accepting of themselves? You'd have to be kind of a dick to disagree with that, no matter what.
I didnt say I hated her or anything bad about her. Just that I didnt like her, and I dont.
But why? And why do you think its relevant?
Most people would rally around their feelings, thats how they get used by all kinds of political bullshit, incapable of thinking for themselfes.
Dude it's a class of children being taught to love themselves. Its the most unpolitical thing. Its not like they're being told to pledge their allegiance to a flag when theyre too young to understand what that means. Only a republican could make this political and find a reason to hate it lmao. Actually an "sjw" probablycould too tbh.
Edit: almost forgot to mention, no one cares that you're an artist. Good for you, i am too, half of reddit is. Its irrelevant to this, she could be a history teacher saying these things and it would still work.
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u/dogsdub May 06 '22
I'm sorry, maybe it's the fact that english is not my first language, so my writing is bad.
There's nothing wrong with children learning or being happy in class. My comment was because people downvoted my post without asking why. Then, when someone asked why and I explained, it all got missunderstood.
Let me see if I can do a better job at writing.
I dont like that woman, I have nothing against education or happiness or cheerfulness.
It is possible to not like someone, yet dont hate them. I dont hate that woman, i just dont like her, its a feeling I have. Obviously most people do not respect other peoples feelings. We all have to agree, aparently, on loving whoever is being loved by everyone else.
I'm not republican, rightwing or sjw. I now see that mass stupidity rules this world
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u/PotBoozeNKink May 06 '22
Ok but thats arguably just as dumb. If you have no reason to dislike her, then why dislike her? Why even say it? Maybe you should go figure yourself out and why you judge people without knowing them instead?
I now see that mass stupidity rules this world
You're not entirely wrong there
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u/chestertravis May 06 '22
So you posted an ambiguous, negative comment with no explanation and expected people to ask why before downvoting you?
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u/fatherlobster666 May 07 '22
Saying I donāt like that woman because you have a āfeelingā that you canāt seem to explain or describe is useless.
Like you literally canāt even justify yourself and then want to cry ābut why downvotedā omg I just have a feeling you should be downvoted.
I donāt hate you. It is possible to not like a comment but donāt hate the comment. I just feel like you should be downvoted
See! itās the same!
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u/tetendi96 May 06 '22
Am I the only one that thinks this is creepy. Maybe I spend too much time on the internet but this reminded me of militant brainwashing videos but different words
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u/fatherlobster666 May 07 '22
Yes so militant - ready to create. Ahem. I make messes. I make mistakes but deep inside I got what it takes. Iām an artist.
I mean sheās basically indoctrinating a bunch of new pol pots
/sssssssssssssss
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u/treyert May 06 '22
cringe af to groom a room full of young artists to conform to (whatās effectively a military-based) call and response. r/cringe
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u/PlenitudeOpulence Plenty š©ŗš§¬š May 06 '22
Come on dudeā¦
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u/Major_Warrens_Dingus May 06 '22
Where the fuck did you get that emoji?
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u/PlenitudeOpulence Plenty š©ŗš§¬š May 06 '22
We have some limited emojis available on Reddit mobile and New Reddit. Some of our emojis include Broccoli Girl (
). I donāt know why they wonāt allow us to use emojis like that on old Reddit for some reason.
We will add more cool emojis that our users suggest over time!
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u/annies_bdrm_skillet May 06 '22
thank you for this, I had no idea it existed until this very moment. I would die for broccoli girl.
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u/PlenitudeOpulence Plenty š©ŗš§¬š May 06 '22
As would I! She is our subreddit Spirit Animal.
See you around!
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u/TechieGee May 06 '22
I can see the emoji on Apollo (iOS reddit app)
Do you have any clue about how I could use/post the emojis myself?
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u/XaoticOrder May 06 '22
It's a team building exercise in positive thinking. What the fuck died in you to make you hate education so much.
How exactly should she teach art class? Enlighten us.
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u/SuspiciousPeppermint May 06 '22
Chants are fun and used with kids all the time. Theyāre easy to participate in and create a sense of belonging within a group - something that adolescents desperately strive for. Mimicking others is literally what kids DO, chants are just a more obvious version of that. This particular chant is promoting self confidence and saying that mistakes and messes are ok and I REALLY donāt see a problem with that message.
But sure go off on how having students listen and repeat after their teacher is āgroomingā. Do you also call cheerleaders groomers for getting crowds to participate in their chants? Or any rally leaders? What about musicians who have the audience sing along with them, are they groomers too?
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u/annies_bdrm_skillet May 06 '22
Good news! We did it! We finally did it. We have enough hot takes. We donāt need anymore! We can all shut up!
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u/game_asylum May 06 '22
Thought the exact same thing. A real artist would never chant along with this
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u/PotBoozeNKink May 06 '22
Theyre fucking kids lmfao. And she's just having them repeat affirmations. And what would you define as a "real artist"?
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u/game_asylum May 06 '22
An independent thinker that takes their work seriously and doesnāt applaud mediocrity
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u/PotBoozeNKink May 06 '22
Are you really trying to gatekeep art from kids? You're a clown dude. Anyone who makes art is an artist. The only way you can be a shit artist is if you take yourself too seriously.
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u/game_asylum May 06 '22
Wrong
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u/PotBoozeNKink May 06 '22
Yes, you are very wrong.. fr tho, is that all you have? Lol And while I'm here, independent thought is bullshit, everyone is inspired and made who they are by the things and people around them. And nothing about what she's saying discourages "independent thought". Also what is mediocrity to you? You know art can be stylized right? There no right way to do it.
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u/Diligent_Promotion64 May 06 '22
I hope she knows that she will be loved by each of those kids until their dying breath ššš
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u/mozzy1985 May 07 '22
What an amazing teacher! More people like this please.
My form tutor at secondary school was also an art teacher and she was also an amazing teacher!
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u/ProblemMiles May 07 '22
Omg my art teacher told me I wasn't going to amount to shit and that my police officer aunt's and uncles need to teach me about respect... During my last year in college he was jumped by a bunch of kids at the school for apparently saying the same thing.
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u/evilada May 08 '22
The most wholesome. So many people have no appreciation for this kind of effort of someone mostly likely bring severely underpaid. A true national treasure.
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