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Re: end of the year art leftovers

From: croberts (croberts)
Date: Tue Jun 20 2000 - 18:40:19 PDT

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    >jeannie in ga wrote:
    >My ugly thing this past year was the amount of unclaimed art I had left
    over.

    I think at the MS age, the "process" is more important to most of them than
    the "end product". The more serious students will keep theirs.

    This is just a fact of "middle school students"...but I think if there is a
    solution...there are thousands of art teachers who would like to know what
    it is. I had a new middle school teacher call me at the end of the year,
    wanting to know if "I had any solutions".

    I suggested she send the folder home early, before the end of school, and
    have the parents sign an "affidavit"...(hee hee!)...oops, I mean a note
    saying they had received it...and then give extra credit for the students
    who return the signed note. Hey...there are a LOT of parents who don't
    care about "art work"...they're just interested in those "other grades".

    Also, I would put the extra work (that I didn't keep) in the teacher's
    lounge and many of the other teachers would take some to decorate their
    rooms for the next year.

    I've had teachers offer to "buy some of the middle work"...I teach HS now,
    and the problem is not quite as bad but there are still many who "chunk it
    in the trash"...
    Carolyn

    Carolyn Roberts
    Kinston High School
    Kinston NC 28501
    croberts
    http://cyber.lenoir.k12.nc.us/khs/departments/roberts.html (Computer Art
    Lessons) 

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