Art Class

It all depends what kind of teacher you get.


If you get one who is passionate about what they do it makes everything easier and more fun.
Get a teacher like mine and you may give up. 

I had the latter.  And BOY, people came into class thinking they would learn how to harness the skills they already had, and left never wanting to do art again.
Nothing was ever good enough for her, and the only person I think ever got near a %100 (or A) for anything might have been related to her.

Everything was a chore. Nothing was creative. 'Redraw this block a few dozen times. Now draw an apple. Black and white! NO COLOR!'
Everyone hated her. There was no real creativity in the class. I learned what I had to to -barely- pass the class and deliberately forgot it all.

She had an assignment do draw something with a cityscape, rope and reptile (don't ask - no one knows why) so I drew a pirate-ish crocodile swinging from a building with a rope looped around a gargoyle. Pretty cool, I thought. (Zootopia like, though this was MANY, many years ago - 2005 I believe.)
Failed.

After that, I moved on to theatre ad had a %99 average the entire year. Much more fun, and the teacher had a lot of fun with it, so we did too. For someone as shy as me, I found out I actually did lie preforming. Something I never thought I'd like to do.

Teachers who have that attitude actually do more harm than good.
(I had a failed violinist teaching me, so nothing was perfect for her either. I wanted to play violin until I had her)
They're tuning students away from what they may be passionate about.