We're doing an art project right now, and the art teacher is micromanaging everything. Everything. She keeps on shooting down everyone's ideas, and giving us 'advice'. 'Oh, darling, you simply must monoprint this!' 'Oh, darling, print a picture of this out and draw it!'
And when you don't follow her so-called 'advice', because, I don't know, your art project doesn't involve whatever the hell she's telling you to do at all, she gets really passive aggressive about it. 'Oh, I was just giving you advice.' 'Well, I would have liked you to...'
She's been doing this for three weeks now for every minute of every lesson, which means that I haven't done anything that my project idea entails while at school, so I reached the end of my tether and outright told her that what she was telling me to do had nothing whatsoever to do with my actual project. Her response? The runner up: 'You have to draw this because you're doing Art GCSE, darling.' Yes, because drawing is the only form of art. It's also my preferred medium, so obviously I never ever want to try anything new. And my favourite: 'I was just giving you advice.'
Advice?! Are you freaking kidding me?! It's not advice when the other party has to follow it! I told her the last sentence, and she conceded that it was indeed an order, and then told me that if I wasn't going to monoprint a blown up picture of chiyogami paper, then I had to draw a half-completed origami structure. So I did the former, because at least the former could be used in someone else's project.
...Aaaand she had to suggest it ten minutes before the class ended, so I had to bring it down two floors and then bring it back up during lunchtime.
Ugh, sorry for the long rant, but I'm so done with art teachers telling me what I can and cannot do in an art lesson, and then telling me that 'art cannot be controlled' and that 'you should never do any half-hearted artwork'.
TL;DR hypocritical art teacher micromanaging projects.