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*dies* Some kids broke into our school this weekend and vandalized the art room. I feel really bad for all the students who lost artwork. They keep a lot of really cool ceramic statues from years past in that room, and all the ceiling squares have beautiful pictures painted on them. I don't know exactly what they ruined yet but the principal sent out an email saying that some of the woodworking projects and art had been lost.
I didn't go today (because I don't have classes on Mondays) but I hope the big project everyone's been working on (a sign for the front of the school) is okay. It consists of about a hundred and fifty painted tiles and I was chosen to help the teacher trace the letters onto them specially because I have a steady hand. It was about half done and it was going to be fired in the kiln. Our teacher kept telling us "Do a good job because this is going to be up forever!!!!! And maybe someday your children will get to see it!!" At least the tiles have numbers on them so if they're just messed up we could put them back in place. If they were going to break it they'd have to do it one tile at a time *wince* but that one, at least, is probably not too bad.
Why would somebody do that, anyway?? Destroying artwork is like. Murder. to me. Even just the sound of ripping paper is unsettling. I can't hear it without wincing, or making an attempt to find out what was torn. It's the instincts of being an artist I guess. What kind of sick person would destroy little kids' artwork for no reason at all?
Anyway, please pray that the police catch the criminals. Apparently they also broke into other schools in the area.
I'm so sorry to hear this, Emily. Somehow people who destroy things need to learn how much joy can be gained by channeling that energy into creating something positive!
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submitted by Emily L.
(May 21, 2012 - 6:32 pm)
(May 21, 2012 - 6:32 pm)
Oh Emily this is so sad! I hope when you go it isn't to bad and that the police do find the people. It's just SOOOOOO aweful!
I'll pray Emily.
(May 22, 2012 - 3:47 am)
Thanks Saz! The good news is: the sign is okay! They didn't do anything to that. :) The bad news is: They dumped an entire unopened jar of pottery glaze in the fish tank.
But everything was cleaned up by the time I got there.
Oooooh. Poor fish! What is wrong with some people?
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(May 22, 2012 - 6:03 pm)
Now that's just...grrr...can't find right word. What did that fish ever do to them? But I'm glad the sign is okay, sounds like it took a lot of work.
(May 22, 2012 - 7:05 pm)
That stnks! Even though I'm not the best artist, I do enjoy artwork made by other people, so I know I would be devastated if it happened at my school.
(May 22, 2012 - 7:15 pm)
I'm glad the sign's okay! It sounds like a lot of work. If that happened to me I'd cry for hours and hours!
(May 22, 2012 - 7:56 pm)
That is so horrible! I love to draw, and one of my friends really really really loves art... it's really terrible. I hope they catch whoever did it.
Why would they do such a thing anyway? It's.... disturbing... to think that people would just destroy artwork for the drake of it.
(May 22, 2012 - 8:40 pm)
And don't forget the fish Tiffany.
(May 23, 2012 - 5:03 am)
Some people have problems. I remember one time in fifth grade when I had this cute little sculpture of a gryphon, and I came to school one day to discover that somebbody had destroyed one of its wings. Luckily, it was still wet clay so I could get it back into shape, but I was still pretty mad at whoever had done that.
I fervently hope that the vandals are caught. Seriously. Even if this isn't a horribly serious crime, that doesn't mean it's not important. What exactly got vandalized?
Chickuu says SOMETHING NAUGHTY!!! Chicky wuuuut?
~Ash out~
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(May 23, 2012 - 2:56 pm)
Okay: So most of the pottery broken turned out to be like templates or something, not actual student work, which is good.
Also, they have an idea for the motive. Our school (for funding reasons) was just last year moved out of a converted warehouse/office building into the actual school building we're in now. The building we're in used to be a middle school, and the students that were there got moved out and combined with another middle school last year. Which they were NOT happy about.
So they think some of the middle-schoolers that got moved were bitter that we took their building (not our fault! the superintendent and school board decided on it.) and decided to take it out on us.
(May 23, 2012 - 5:59 pm)
That is so unfair! I would be really sad and mad. Also,sometimes when we would go to a river, we would make cities out of the sand, and kids would go and stomp all over them, just for fun.
(May 24, 2012 - 1:44 pm)
Oh that is just too sad! I am so sorry, Emily, and I hope that these kids will be caught soon. How dare they do that!
(May 25, 2012 - 9:05 am)
That is awful! I live in Woodstock (the one the hippie festival was named after) and sometimes senile hippies build littles towers out of the rocks at the swimming hole and then teenagers throw rocks at the towers, destroying them.
(May 25, 2012 - 9:13 am)
DO I DETECT A FELLOW CANADIAN?!?!?!?!?! :D
And I'm glad the pottery wasn't student artwork. I hope this doesn't happen again.
(May 25, 2012 - 4:24 pm)
@ Olive:
Who is this "FELLOW CANADIAN"-ship addressed to?
(May 27, 2012 - 8:54 am)
ME! But most likely you, Holmes.
(Nova Scotia BTW)
Garthwumpian Flopp says taxv. Taxes? What?
~Quintus!
(May 27, 2012 - 1:37 pm)