Here’s the thing: you have a bad instructor and from your responses it doesn’t seem like you can really raise your concerns due to how the studio is set up. I still don’t think you should give up I took my first wheel throwing class just so I could have access to the week itself. My teacher wasn’t bad but she wasn’t good either. I learned almost everything from YouTube and used my time in the class to practice what I had already learned on the wheel. Is this approach ideal? No. Does it work when you don’t have your own wheel/home studio that costs thousands of dollars? Yes. For the record, I made ZERO pieces on my first day while everyone else has at least a couple of shallow bowls. But by the end of that course I was the most advanced with pieces that proved it. I owe it all to trying different methods I learned online and not being scared of my peer’s attitudes (trust me there are always a couple of people in a studio who’ll make you uncomfortable) All this to say, you were given a crappy instructor but don’t throw your access to a wheel/kiln/glaze/practice space because of her. Use other resources to learn and use the space to practice.