Rainbow wrote:Cardcaptor Takato wrote: I have to say, after hearing Celexa's story about that teacher, I'm kind of glad I didn't.
Aww, it's okay. Not all teachers are mean about anime.
That teacher was actually only one of two bad ones. I'll post the story about the bad one at the end of this post, but the other one didn't hurt my feelings, she's just annoying. As for teachers and anime, most of my teachers just ignore it. But my Social Studies teacher this year is pretty nice about it, and my 5th grade Language Arts teacher was better. She teaches Advanced Language Arts and Advanced Math, and I happened to be in her Lanuage Arts class. She was pretty open minded about everything, and would let us spend the whole class time discussing a book and our views about it sometimes. She also let us snitch any warm-up papers we wanted, which was kinda fun. One time my mom and I invited her over to our house, and I told her about that teacher, and she read a little bit of my english manga, and she told me how mean the teacher was. Which we could tell was the truth, since they both teach in the same district, and most teacher don't bad-mouth teachers in their own district. She even seemed to enjoy a little of the book. She was always someone I could go to.
The other teacher
I swear, the other teacher was just ignorant (Ignorant in more than one way), but this one has a small but active grudge against anime! And she needs to get her stuff straight. One time the class was talking quietly, and the teacher was silently writing on the blackboard. My friend sitting next to me started to ask her a question, then she turns around and says "Excuse me, am I writing? That's rude!" SHE WASN'T TALKING, THE CLASS WAS TALKING AMONGST THEMSELVES. Can sometime please tell me how that's rude. I know someone can probably throw a few possibilites out there, but it's not technically "rude." She's a crummy teacher anyway, but this one just pushes it over the edge. I would read and draw anime before class begun, and she would say, "That an-ee-may stuff? heh..." but that isn't what pushed it. We were studying
A Christmas Carol and we had to draw "Scrooge Faces", or in other words, what Scrooge probably felt during that time as a facial expression. I drew mine, of course, anime style. However I messed up inking the eyes, and they looked a bit bigger than they were supposed to, thus making Scrooge look a little young, but still good. I put mine up, and of course, I didn't win. However, I hardly cared either. So then she looks at my Scrooge face, and goes really loud to the class "We've got to break you out of the anime style eh? Hah hah hah hah!" causing my to be angry, but not hurt. However, angry enough to flip her off under my desk. I feel that while she has the right to comment on my drawing style, she has no right to try and change it. For about a month after that, she kept referring to my anime style drawing. I wish she'd just let my drawing style be. But, like I said, she's a crummy teacher anyway. Luckily I only have her for one period. (One period for me = 40 min) instead of that other language arts teacher, whom I had for 2.
So for now, I just draw anime-styled art projects.
Then one day, I gave out tattos I got from a AMERICAN Pokemon coloring book, and she made everyone wash they're tattos off. She said "They can contain chemicals, and since Pokemon is a cartoon from Jurpan--" 
Well, we were told to write a paper on a Anime or Manga artist. I did mine on Naoko Takeuchi. I basically just told about her life, her previous works before Sailormoon, and how Sailormoon was her most famous work. The whole report was 9 pages total, I put some scans from "The Cherry Project" in with it. I bought my Sailormoon Manga in for the class to pass around and look at. I got an A+ on the project. Most people in my high school accept Anime and seem to enjoy it.