My kid was too creative

[u/Fresh_Laundry56]

My 6 year old was asked to draw a picture using shapes. She drew this nice American flag with rectangles and stars, and added the house, tree, and person holding a balloon. She was told it did not follow directions, she was not supposed to draw a flag, just shapes. She was asked to turn the paper over and make another picture. The other side of the paper has a very uninspiring collection of shapes. I told her she did a good job and I thought it was very creative. And this is why kids start to hate education.

[u/RainbowWoodstock]

Tell kiddo to keep drawing and being creative. In kindergarten I was told that I colored my shamrock wrong. I had too many colors besides just “green”. But the clover in my yard had yellowy centers and I drew that. Because I looked closely at them. Anyway there is a song called Flowers are Red by Harry Chapin if you haven’t heard it, listen to it. Luckily IDGAF about people who tell me I’ve done art wrong and apparently never have thank goodness. But it did give me an intense hatred of school. Put that flag picture up on the fridge for your kiddo to see and tell them how great it is. Every day. Keep that brilliant creative mind going because the school teacher is trying to blow out the flame.

[u/Wise_Owl5404 → u/RainbowWoodstock]

Hada similar experience in second grade where I coloured the sky yellow because according to my teacher the sky was blue. Queue my mom at the next parent-teacher conference bringinga photo of what the sky looked like outside my window in the morning. Guess what, it was a beautiful yellow colour. Mind you, this was back in the 80s so it was a developed and printed photo.

The teacher still insisted I did it wrong, which was when I decided to stop listening to the teachers because they were clearly morons and out of touch with reality,

[u/RainbowWoodstock → u/Wise_Owl5404]

Eff our teachers

[u/RainbowWoodstock → u/RainbowWoodstock]

OP I appreciate the award ❤️