u/NiceTank5815

first of all, let me briefly explain my piece idea. this guy (marc almond) in the centre, two statues on either side of him with their eyes closed. columns (ionic) on either side, in front and behind the people to create depth. big stained glass window in the background. a simple one. i don't have the time or skill to paint a super detailed one, so i designed my own in my plan that my teacher failed to look at even once. before this, i practiced a complicated window and didn't like how it came out.

my final exam was last week. beforehand, miss told me she thought i sounded confident and that she was going to leave me alone. she also said she wasn't allowed to talk to us during the exam, which..she wasn't. the exam comes round, the first 5 hours goes great. finished all the portraits. fine. second half comes along, everything is going well, and i've spent an hour and a half at most painting the window. my teacher walks over to me and says, "why are you doing it like that? your practice was so much better. do it like this please." and she puts the aforementioned window i practiced beforehand in front of me. i decide not to because i've already spent over an hour on the other one and it's almost done. she comes back and says "just trust me please." i get sick of her and just put both of the windows aside and start working on the smaller pillars for the background. at this point i've decided there won't be a window at all. she comes back and asks me about the window, i tell her i gave up on it and she huffs and storms off like a toddler to go complain to the assistant teacher about me. (i'm crying by this point). she comes back, rearranges everything i've done to make it fit portrait and tells me, "i didn't know you were doing it landscape. you are a grade 9 student and your practice was better than this" (i'm not grade 9 btw i've been stuck on a 7 for months) "your work is nothing without the window." NOTHING WITHOUT THE WINDOW??? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? i showed her my plan with the sketch of my idea, which featured the window i'd been painting. she says, "you're basing it on that little sketch?" and tuts at me. for context, this "little sketch" was the plan she was shouting at us to complete a couple weeks before because we, in her words, needed it so SHE knew what we were all doing. again, she never even looked at them. she tells me "there's no point in crying." i tell her i can't help it and she completely ignores me and gives me both of the windows to cut out. i cut out the first one but atp i can't stop crying and i'm just trying to sort myself out so i can do what she's asking. she asks me to cut out the other one. "cut it." "i will!" "we don't have much time left and i can't do it for you" i don't. by the way, before the exam even started she told us she was allowed to cut things out for us, so no idea what that was about. "CUT IT." this just makes me cry more and she tells me to leave because i'm disturbing the exam. i go to the bathroom and have a full on i-can't-breathe panic attack on the floor for at least 20 minutes. i go back in and the exam is over. the teacher has rearranged my work in a really weird way, and it's all portrait now. i made everything just so it could fit perfectly on landscape because that's what i had in mind, and that's what was clearly shown (and said!) in my plan. the (lovely) examiner comes over to me and tells me i have an extra 36 minutes next week to finish everything because of the time i took out. her exact words were, "it's okay! they sorted it out for you. you'll have an extra 36 minutes next week. don't worry, there is always a way" she was so sweet😭 unfortunately she won't be there for my 36 minutes, and i don't think it'll be any different. i'm fully expecting my teacher to do the exact same thing but worse because it's during a regular lesson where she can do whatever she likes.

she did this during my mock exam too where she made me restart halfway through because what i was doing was "copyright" (disney. it was all my idea and i wasn't even copying anything straight up. someone else in the class just full on traced someone else's art and got away with it. i'd spent months putting it all together and planning it out, and AGAIN, she NEVER LOOKED AT MY PLAN.) i then spent 8 hours on a different idea, only for her to tell me it "wasn't enough for a final piece" and made me do it all over again with less than a week at home to do it. she also didn't like that, and told me it would bring my grade down. she also told me at parents evening that the mock exam didn't even count towards my grade?? she's so confusing, and i'm screwed. my dad is thinking of complaining to the school. thanks for reading, if you did..