Ms. Durquet
Marie-Jose Durquet, or Ms. Durquet, is the main photography teacher at Gunn. She teaches Photography 1, Advanced Photography, Advanced Photography H, and AP Photography. Her name is not Mr. Quet.
| Full name | Marie-Jose Durquet |
|---|---|
| Preferred name | Ms. Durquet, Ms. D, MJ |
| Classes taught | Photography 1, Advanced Photography, Advanced Photography H, AP Photography |
| Room(s) | M-1 |
| Department | Art |
Personality
Ms. Durquet is known for being one of the more chill teachers at Gunn. She is always willing to listen to students, and clearly enjoys teaching her classes. She is very forgiving towards students who are late to her class, but absolutely despises cell phone use in class. She has said she would rather her students come in and smoke marijuana than be on their cell phones.
Ms. Durquet is also known for her wide variety of "out of pocket" quotes and stories, and is always stressed out about writing grants and communicating with Gunn admin.
She is also very proud of her Basque heritage, and commonly talks about her culture during class. Because of this, she speaks both French and Spanish, and loves to converse with students in those languages.
Idiosyncrasies
Ms. Durquet does all her grading in a paper gradebook and doesn't usually input grades for written assignments in Schoology until the end of the grading period, so while work turned in on Schoology is usually graded within an average time frame, students may not know their overall course grade until the end of the quarter or semester. Ms. Durquet also does not round up grades, causing great anxiety among some students. However, there is an extra credit opportunity each semester in all of her classes, and her grading is generally very lenient (so long as you follow the assignment instructions and take some effort in doing the assignment).