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art teachers that manipulate

From: Rdunkelart
Date: Thu Mar 02 2000 - 19:35:46 PST

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    There is an art teacher that routinely and for years has taken her students
    art and added her "touches" on the work itself as well as with clever matting
     and additional
    mountings. She wins many art contests with her students art. Recently I
    heard
    from some other teachers that they suspect this too. I followed this
    teacher (school expected me to perform wonders as she did) and while teaching
    perspective realized that the student that had won a first in an important
    poster contest with the drawing of a train in perfect perspective did not
    know anything about perspective. That was my first clue. Students from past
    years are now highschool and have mentioned how much they resented her
    "drawing" on their art. I have always had a hands off policy. I will draw
    on the board or on a separate piece of paper but never on the childs art. So
    what is the concensus out there. What should a teacher do with
    a childs art - I've put on plain mats but not altered the painting or made
    the matting
    a work of art unless it was with the child and they did the work. My
    students have won in some contests with their own work (3rd, hms etc. ) and
    I am proud of them.
    Personally I don';t like children to enter contests - my school expects it of
    me because of the precedent already set - the outcome of the contests
    sometimes gives a non-winning child a negative message about their art work.
    Would like to
    hear others opinions. R 

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