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Loved Art class!!! Mrs. Monfried was and is awesome!!!

What a fun subject! I hate when art teachers disagree with your art syle though...

loved art got A's

ummm o lyk to draw but im not good at it...

Not that great at art.

Wish I'd taken more art classes in high school.

The people in art class are weird. The really talented artists would never take art class.

boring as hell as he doesnt even tell us anything to do

Loved it! Especially photo class

I was somewhat artistic and one of the high school art teachers was a family friend so I loved art class. I never used it though so who knows what could have become of it.

My artistic talent extends to drawing stick men. Art appreciation, on the other hand, is a good course.

An entertaining time filler, and a chance to chat up girls, but for someone as inept as I, largely a waste of time.

It was a fun blowoff class in junior high, but I had better things to do in high school.

I sucked at it, and thus, didn't enjoy it.

I don't even do good drawing stick figures.

They displayed my art work once but didn't tell me until after they returned it to me.

Use only outlines, geometric shape, and free hand styles. Most cases, it needs perspective points, and intersection to draw a house, or a tall building using a vanishing point perspectives. But I'm too lazy in this work sometimes.

Wonderful idea- but allergic to the trend of dumbing-down schools to become worthless test factories. . .

IMO art and music are all about self expression and as such shouldnt be TAUGHT at school. There is no right way or wrong way whatever people say. I've seen people with talent have their creativity curbed by rules. If someone wants to paint a sky green and the sea orange because that's what they perceive, let em.

Art is a way to develop your personal expression.

One of my favorites, and also one of the subjects that offered useful knowledge for life - far more than some of the sciences.

Another unfortunately neglected subject in this era of budget cuts.

I think that art as a school subject is great. It gives kids an outlet for their creativity. I know without this class I would have never discovered my own talent(not that I want to persue a career in this field), but I didn't even know that I could draw worth anything before my experiences in my 6th grade art class.

My dad is an artist, so is my younger sister, so I guess it runs in my blood. Blessed to have this talent!

i am very creative but my drawing sucks

I am going to art school next year, and plan to have a carrear in art. (not the best pay, but I love it) If not for my high school art classes I probably would not have made this choice for my life direction. So, since it has effected my life so much, I give it 5 stars.

I always enjoyed art class when I was in school. Never really did much however, for me the class traveled too slow. But as I think back, I can clearly see where I could have used some of my extra time to refine a skill or two. I think art class is important because it encourages creativity, which helps in any field the person may decide to go into.

For me, art was a nice break from all the academic subjects, but I was never too great at it. I'm not a very creative person and my pictures always look like something a five year-old made.

i'm not an artist so i'd rather have someone grade me on my history or science knowledge than a painting. i might find my painting good while the teacher finds it sh*t and fails me even though i tried my best. i know art is expressing yourself but i'm terribly bad at that so no wonder why i always flunk this class

I can't draw, enough said.

I really enjoy art at my school! Unfortunately, at the school I go to very rarely do they give us a chance to indulge in art. The only way we can get art is to sign-up and wait 3 months to know if I am good enough to get in, but otherwise I enjoy art class throughly.

This was my subject and I relished every second of it. Sure, the teachers could be as goofy in their way as George Karlin’s Hippy Dippy Weatherman. But it was a great place to be if you took the subject seriously and had a talent and love for it. From an early age I realized that this was definitely something I was always going to love and excel in and, when I got to high school, I took every class I could. But the crème de la crème for me was Art History and the discovery that it was actually possible to experience time travel in more ways than hopping from one war to another. Maybe the ways we have devised and the times humans have tried to kill each other off through the ages are points we need to contemplate – if for no other reason than to avoid complete annihilation. However, it is in the art and architecture produced through the ages that tell the true story of who we are in our souls. And that is something I find incredibly more fascinating. I regret only two things about my high school Art class experience…the lack of truly dedicated teachers and the shallow depths that we were allowed to take the subject. Also, I sincerely believe that, like PE, Music, or any other talent based subject, Art is something that should never be forced on people who have no interest in it – and, by the end of grade school the interest and talent should be apparent even to the most ditzy school counselor. Forcing people into something beyond that age isn’t fair – either to the student who would rather be somewhere else or serious students who would rather learn something. Too much precious time is wasted on those who think of these classes as just another chance to party on school time.

Art is another one of those subjects that usually suits some people better than others. Since I like drawing, sculpting etc. (and am quite good at it, in my own humble opinion) art was fun for me because it was easy and it allowed my sense of creativity to flourish. Then there are people (like in Physical Education) that don't have a, shall I say, natural gift for it. And then, knowing that you will be graded on your particular skill (or in some cases, lack thereof) seems a bit unjust.

Fortunately we are only required to take one year of Art to graduate here in Texas- and thank goodness for that! I am not much of an artist. In fact, I can't draw at all. And things get worse when we start working with 3-D objects like sculptures. Fortunately my teacher is compassionate and grades me based on my effort so I have maintained an A in this class, but I really did not enjoy this class at all and dreaded going to it. I love looking at art and can see how this class would be a haven for some artists, but not for me.

Only good if that's what you love. I never could force myself through one of these classes. And as I remember, most of the art work that came out of my high school looked pretty disturbing anyway....

With mediocre supplies available in many schools, it's sometimes hard to work on projects, but nevertheless it's a pretty enriching class for those who'll let themselves do it. Being able to render three-dimensional objects actually takes a lot of talent. I think to get students more interested, maybe they could mention the 3D graphics that they see in video games and movies--that's art. Many careers involve art: Industrial design, graphic design, 3D Modeling, all take art skills. It's not just all watercolors and charcoals (though if you want to take that path, that's possible, too).