<p>Does your high school have an art requirement? How do you survive it, if you're not a natural artist?</p>
<p>During 8th grade course selection, I thought, "Oh, that's nice. The school makes it so everyone has fun and doesn't just focus on math and science'. Now, I dislike it. I personally work better with computers, and I find it unfair how graphic arts isn't considered an art (We have a 1 semester computers in art class, but countless painting, photography, drawing, sculpting-ish classes, including 'nontraditional' art classes like video editing, too). I'm taking photography and that one computers in art class for my requirements, because I had a bad incident with art in middle school (X acto blades -> stitches D:), and I like graphic arts. I took a print making class last year which I think should've count as an art class, but whatever.
But yeah. I dislike photography because the class has too many students in it for an art class, and the teacher gives too much projects in too little time. I want to continue taking it, though, so it won't just be a waste of a semester and I'll have a new hobby later on. I also wanted to take photo because it's a requirement for other classes that sound more interesting. Oddly, I also had a humanities class last year which, according to the art teacher, could replace Art I, so...? </p>
<p>I think this requirement is unfair to those kids who aren't creative at all. It feels more like the school is trying to say 'See, we have cool classes! <em>Shoves students into art room</em>'. And, like I said before, the classes feel too crowded. Also, for everyone's inner CC-er, it could ruin GPAs or force people to take classes they won't use as oppose to a random AP class.
What are your thoughts?</p>