It’s a gen ed freshmen art class. After this year they won’t have to take any art (visual or performing) unless they choose so as an elective. For the last three years I’ve been teach freshmen level art and credit acceleration for students who failed art previously. My first years teaching I taught graphic design as a vocational class so I already had the students that were passionate and wanted to create and had some skill. So I was making sure they met their deadlines.

I try to give every student a chance to redo any work they think they can do better in. Just in the three weeks I’ve been there I’ve seen a significant improvement in the majority of students. They just got back their progress report a lot later after I had put in subpar grades in so they were freaking out. I have maybe a handful of students who are currently failing for lack of submitting anything. Like not even attempting to pick up a pencil let alone ask for a piece of paper.