Starting with the back story:
My original art teacher who uses the room left on maternity leave in September. She had a substitute (an art teacher from Memphis, probably in his 30s) lined up to cover the remainder of the semester. He came in as soon as she left, had us finish the tattoo project we were working on, and started us with making piñatas.
Throughout that entire project (lasted about a month, and I still never got mine done), he was rather unhelpful with everyone. He'd just sit at his computer silently or walk around the room making condescending remarks about the projects belonging to choice kids that he didn't like (usually the kids who missed school, were noisy, or made lazy designs such as basic geometric shapes).
The reason my project was never finished appeared to be his fault. I needed yellow tissue paper and black tissue paper (the only colors I needed for my project) but the supplies eventually dwindled and ran out. When the black was getting low, I went and informed him about it and he replied with, "Yeah I know. I'll have to pick up more tomorrow." I would then work with my yellow portions. Tomorrow came, he says he forgot. Next day, he said, "Michael's [arts and crafts store] didn't have it." After almost a week of that repeating, the yellow ran out. I told him that I literally could not work on my project at all until I had either yellow or black paper. Next day, no yellow or black. I just had to sit for an hour and do nothing.
The next day, I was at school and was walking to the art room. Two people in my class were at the door because the room was shut and locked with the lights off. The second bell rang meaning that everyone at school has five minutes to be in class. Still waiting. Everyone in my class eventually arrived at the room which remained locked. The final bell rang and the hallway was completely empty except for the big clump of kids who couldn't get in. The teacher in the adjoining room went through her room and to a door that connected her room to my room and unlocked the door from the inside so we could get in. A lady i didnt know came in and said that she had gotten word that we needed several colors of paper. She took orders (including mine) and left. After an hour of sitting and doing nothing (still no paper I can use), he finally shows up saying, "My alarm didn't go off and I was tired because I had to load trucks yesterday." M'kay.
The day after that, that woman who took the paper orders came through the door with armloads spilling over with tissue paper (yellow and black included), more than enough to finish my project. After she left, my substitute announced that the deadline was in two days. I was so far behind that I could never make the due date, and I didn't. I ended up with an 80% on the project because it was incomplete.
The day after piñatas were "done" (only two people in my class managed to finish, only because they took their projects home as homework almost every day), he started us on the next thing, where we had to cover a 16"x16" piece of white cardboard using glue and colored string to make pictorial representations of an important life event. He then said we had one week (aka ~4 hours class time, most of which is taken up by opening announcements and lecture/demonstration) to finish and turn in the whole thing. Everyone at my table was totally pissed and we all realized we could never finish by then. The due date was yesterday (Tuesday). On Monday, I was probably about 15% done, and ahead of almost everyone.
Yesterday came. I walked into the room and a different person was at the desk. He was just a friendly middle aged man (who likes corvettes lol) and was wearing the substitute placard around his neck, so I just figured that the usual guy I'd been dealing with was sick. I got my stuff out to begin working and the teacher in the adjoining room came in. She informed us that the previous art teacher would no longer be teaching this class. When she was asked why, she just replied with, "He just has other things to do."
I remember smiling and having to cover my face so no one would notice. With the way her tone sounded and his sketchy behavior, I think it's pretty reasonable to think he got fired.
