@JustinMcClanahan you did great by lobbying your art teacher. Didn't work for me with my high school English teacher when I was a senior. He pulled two of us out of class one at a time to talk with us about an open book test he gave the previous day. He took my out second and when the other kid came back he said if he says anything punch him. I was worried walking down the hall and going into the room where the teacher was waiting. He showed me two papers that were word the same with essay type questions with a grade of Zero at the top. I told him that's not fair you know I didn't copy his paper. He sits behind me. He basically said he has to give us both a zero and that was that. I was fuming so when I got back to class I wrote a short poem and tacked it on his bulletin board on the way out of class. His name was Mr. Beard.

I once had a teacher who's name stood for goatee,
His ego was huge and so was he.
He tried to be funny when he was in class,
But all he did was act like an xxx.

When I came to class the next day I was surprised to see my poem still on his bulletin board but he had graded it an gave it an A minus. He didn't say a word to me but I did transfer to a different English class the following semester which was a mistake because my new teacher was an ex-Marine who was really strict. But then again, I did learn a lot from him and I always guarded my test papers in class ☺