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Jasmine wrote:Greater Basilisk wrote:Nirvanacat13 wrote:
GUIDO!!! *Louis* WE HAVE MORE WORK TO DO!
Cat: “We now get to take out the entire education system in Switzerland…”
Louis/Guido: “Sweet”
LMAO
Hahaha! Hop on over, you two! My family is having our own fight with the school system, so if you’d just like follow through with that… 😆 😆
Wow, we’re going to need a lot of bleach…and body bags 🙂
That can be arranged, quite easily. 😆
Ugh, I’m so sorry you have to go through this, Akeyla!
It seems like you’ve had to endure quite a bit at this school, I hope it works out in the end so you can use this degree to put towards your Masters. Or, at the very least, transfer some of the credits to another school. I can’t fathom the attitude your professors have on what is considered “art”. Must be beyond frustrating. Nuke away.
Please keep us updated.
I’d like to thank you all for your nice replies. They really mean a lot to me 🙂
things are still in limbo here.
Last monday we DID get a small get togheter with all the teachers and one of the main teachers (since you know the official director is sick and Mr. Replacement a… non-nice person) and the main teacher said that “the bachelor system has been handed in newly this morning and was approved”
first we were WEEEEE! but a day or so after we realized that he had said “the new bachelor”. We are doing something else, and our system wasnt approved previously. This could mean that the new kids will have no problem, but we may have nothing again.
On the very same get togheter we also asked wheter our Bachelor was valid outside Switzerland as an admission to the “Master of arts”. The teacher at the speaking desk says “yea sure!” but various of my friends sitting at the back where the other teachers sat say that they saw them shaking their heads and one teacher said “thats not quite true but they dont need to know it” to the other.I’m clueless.
And I feel all numb and “I dont care anymore”. I havent got much choice, but with all this vague-ness foggy future it is also a bit dangerous to jump off. My boyfriend he says he’s sure our paper will get through because one lawyer is already active (school has been sued a 200 grands by a student) and rather than paying they’d make our paper valid.WHat makes things even cooler is that some of my friends think its totally chill and the paper wasnt important.
I also have cool stories of my school sending me for practical teaching experience (again, I study art, we dont “learn” we just scribble) to a software computer school. They really believed I could teach there,… things I never even heard of, and I “grew up” with the net. Well, the teacher of that computer school is really nice and we found a solution, but still, I WANT TO CHAINSAW THE MAIN BUILDING OF MY SCHOOL!
*sigh*
I’ll keep you updated. As long as I keep my humor, and my sanity…
greets
Aky
Sounds like you’ve been through the wringer with all this, Akeyla. 🙁 It sounds unhappily familiar to something my sister went through a year ago, when the school she was attending turned out to not have national accreditation. All of her hard work was for nothing: although the material that they had been taught was valid, a degree from the school was worthless. As it turned out, the students were able to salvage some of their classwork and apply it at a different school where they could continue towards their degree. But they still had to take several versions of the final exam to prove that they really knew the material.
It was a horrible mess and very stressful for my sister, who is not exactly a forceful person. But she decided that this really was the area in which she wanted to work, and gritted it out. She got her degree and is now working.
It sounds as if the material that your school has been teaching didn’t ring true to you (and no wonder–it sounds fishy to me too). I know you’ve invested a lot of time and effort in this program, but is it worth pursuing at this school, or are there other schools that you could look into? Frankly what you’ve told us of the teachers at the current school makes them sound like talentless hacks who are jealous of people with a) imagination and b) the skill to put it down on paper. And the administration has given you cause to suspect that they are not being honest with you students. Are they worth your trouble? Seems to me like that is the biggest question for you to answer at this moment. If yes, then how can you protect yourself if they try further monkey business? And if no, is there another school that would suit you better, and hopefully accept some of your classwork so that you don’t have to repeat everything?
The fact that your material has been well-received by the public, who doesn’t have an axe to grind, is a pretty good indicator that you have talent. And you are willing to teach! That is a wonderful thing. I can’t begin to count the blessings that I’ve gained from enthusiastic and open-minded teachers. You would be a tremendous asset to art students. If this goal is still one that fires you up and makes you happy, then by all means go for it. And those dimwits who claim that “true art” is tracing photos with a lightbox (HAHAHAHA 👿 👿 BULLMUFFINS!) can just go soak their collective heads. I could trace the Mona Lisa with a lightbox. That doesn’t make me an Old Master! 😛
thank you very much for your kind words 🙂 they made me smile, back then and also today re-reading them.
I have an update: stagnation, no news, nothing nadas nix. Except that apparently our application time for the (not yet approved) Master is in January. Nice.
In the meantime our school invested time and money on a silly book about artist “author rights” and one of the participating artists/teacher is stitching stuff on copyrighted photography but eh… who cares as long as its art.And I am making this projekt, right? the one I had that stopmotion figure in process. My teachers told me to save time I should go and buy a Byonicle figure and file and cut it off until I have a suiting dragon. yeahbabe. *headdesk*
I would dearly love to see a bionicle made into a dragon. Then I would kick myself for getting rid of all of my son’s. 😆
I think a Bionicle could actually turn into a pretty cool dragon. I would not want to wrestle my sons away from him to find out, though.
thankyou all…
just stopping by for some new news.
So, Director 1 is sick, remember? Ever since we had Mr Incompetent Director 2. He has continued messing with our system and whilest our futures remains in fog all he can say ” oh it didnt work” and not ” I am sorry it did not work”. AFter he told that in August a student sued school (you may recall) and now, according to the recent rumours we exceeded his expectations and he tucked his tail between his legs and wants to QUIT!
*headdesk*
*headdesk*
*headdesk*You are far more patient than I Aky!! I’d have long graduated from the desk to the nearest concrete/brick wall!! And be doing something we here can do, report it to the TV Stations!! 😈 😈 They like good there screwing us over very badly stories!! And they get things fixed and on the ball fairly quickly, ’cause no one likes that bad of PR!!!
And then I’d work with a contingency of my fellow students and sue them for “Just” what I(we) am entitled too, the full refund of my Tuition, books, supplies and living expenses while I’d been enrolled, as well as what would be needed to cover the same at another facility for the entire duration of the program from start to completion at that location, as well as the costs associated with the transfer to such. And if they tried to say “Well that’s too much” just remind them that what they have done is to set you back that far and the mental and emotional grief of having your life far less the same for your creativity, which is supposed to be your livelihood from graduation on, and that if you would rather you will ask for the payment in full of potential wages lost as well, with the knowledge that these wages would have been earned well until your 70’s!! But then again I can be quite a Bitch!! Imagine having to fork out those costs for even just 20 students?Greater Basilisk wrote:Ski’s planning to come down here one of these days. We should make use of that.
EHHHHHH!
tell me everydetailwhenandwhere!
we’ve gotta make a dragon festival 🙂 dragoncookies, dragondinner, dragonartsing, dragonmovies and then we can still each take an ultrapack of rotten eggs and go dragonishly to our school and redecorate em… hem… hehe!
no, seriously! when?! where?!
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