First Week of Score

My first couple days of SCORE were fairly uneventful. Humanities week was happening at the same time, so many of the classes that I was interning with were sent to the auditorium for presentations. Whenever there was a new class, Mrs. Powers took a couple minutes to introduce me and tell the class a little bit about who I am and how I’ve been involved with art during my high school years. Right off the bat, Mrs. Powers asked me if I would teach her classes about monoprinting, which is a form of printmaking. I then spent the next couple of days experimenting with monoprinting in order to be able to tell the classes the best approach for making a monoprint. I noticed several things while I was in the art room. First, I noticed that people who were taking higher levels of art classes, such as portfolio or AP art, were much more well-behaved, probably because they were taking the class more seriously (and also because they were generally older - juniors and seniors). Today, I sat in the art room with a middle school class for the first time. It was as if they had much shorter attention spans than the other high school classes; they were loud, disruptive, and rude. Mrs. Powers gave four 8th graders detention, and I have never seen Mrs. Powers give out detentions before. For the art foundations classes, I noticed the students, who were underclassmen, were also not treating the class as they would treat their core classes. Mrs. Powers had assigned them a paper to write on a certain artist, and not one student had completed the paper on time. Most of the papers were poorly written, and one paper was even entirely plagiarized. I can see how difficult it must be for Mrs. Powers to teach so many students who aren’t willing to put in the amount of effort it requires to excel in her classes.