What is going on everyone and welcome to our slash malicious compliance?

Now in today's first story an art teacher tells O.P. that in his opinion their artwork is

absolutely disgusting but in reality it's pretty good and what happens next is truly insane. My teacher called my

work bad and my attitude even worse. It then got featured in the biggest art

gallery in the country. For some context, the school I go to is well respected in my country.

So it was not uncommon for venues to request to display a student's work

or to ask for students to sing live for them.

On the occasion in question, the largest art gallery in the country,

Gallery X, had asked my school to submit inspired art to be out on display.

The school agreed and said that they would submit five pieces of work, one piece per year for years 9 to 13.

Now back to the story. I hated art growing up, but it was a mandatory subject until you got to choose your subjects in year 10.

Needless to say, I dropped the subject ASAP.

Despite hating the subject, I still put effort into my work, and some of it wasn't that bad. However at the same time I would not

hide away from expressing my views when we were given a task that I didn't see a point to,

even if the teacher was in earshot. Needless to say, my relationship with the art department faculty wasn't the best.

My teacher at the time particularly had it in for me. He was one of those teachers that has the view

that their subject should be your most important

subject, regardless of your future ambitions.

If he thought that you weren't prioritizing arts, then he would make your life heck.

Yet again, I hated art as a subject. He knew this, but I would still do

any work set to the best of my ability. We had just finished a project where we had to mix

different pigments to create our own unique color.

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