That's a full 4-year degree in my area.

It's a portable skill that my wife's sister leveraged to move to Europe. She's had a great life there.

I know several teachers, they're doing an important and increasingly difficult/thankless job. Fuck you.

I have former teachers that screamed at me for saying "typing is the future" wanting to relegate art classes to be a few lessons of how to prompt AI image generators. Just like how handwriting strengthens a lot of other skills (usually fine motor ones), art is also good at auxiliary skills. Of course it can be done wrong (Kodály method is infamous for reverse teaching to "force kids to count more"), but that doesn't invalidate it, and I personally hated writing for uncomfortable pencils and bad holding methods (was instructed to hold on the tapered off position "for better control" as strongly as possible).