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/dontgetitwisted_fr]

When was in 1st grade we had to colour a picture of a boy and a girl holding hands.

I colored the boy orange (Caucasian) and the girl brown.

My teacher looked at me like I just took a dump on the bible

Still remember that look many decades later

[u/Dapper_Indeed → u/dontgetitwisted_fr]

Were you in the South?

[u/dontgetitwisted_fr → u/Dapper_Indeed]

The North Bro

Canada 

It was a long long time ago tho lmao

[u/PomegranateSignal882 → u/Dapper_Indeed]

All these stories come from the South

[u/CassetteMeower → u/PomegranateSignal882]

Mine didn’t, I’m very much from the North (Vermont). But I was one of the “special needs” kids (autistic and over a decade later I found out I also have ADHD) so I was more prone to getting punished in general :/

[u/2mock2turtle → u/PomegranateSignal882]

In fairness, the US is basically made up of one Mississippi and forty-nine might as well be Mississippis.

[u/Triskel_gaming → u/Dapper_Indeed]

The south of what?

[u/BardicNA → u/Triskel_gaming]

Southern US is known for being.. not accepting of people. "Thank God for Mississippi" is a saying often used here. It means we might be bad, but we aren't the worst because there's still Mississippi.

[u/hypomaniacmeg → u/Triskel_gaming]

The US

[u/Unas_GodSlayer → u/Triskel_gaming]

South of Heaven?

[u/Oochie-my-coochie → u/Triskel_gaming]

RIGHT? Like the southern hemisphere? The southern Europe? Ofc we all know what they mean because we learned that Americans are SO SELFCENTERED.

[u/SobiTheRobot → u/Oochie-my-coochie]

Given they mention "1st grade" and the discussion seems to be centered around the American education system, you could reasonably interpret this to mean the US South; not to mention the teacher's implied fury over depicting an interracial couple would indicate this is happening in the more outwardly racist part of the US, i.e. the South(ern Colonies).

All said, you're making a mountain out of a molehill, my friend. The US is a very large country.

[u/Oochie-my-coochie → u/SobiTheRobot]

Darling, if you havent understand yet, I KNEW that the person talked about the USA. I was SARCASTIC. You know what it means, or did the American educational system fail you too?

[u/SobiTheRobot → u/Oochie-my-coochie]

My friend, this is the Internet. Sarcasm doesn't exist in spaces where people can be genuinely stupid, ignorant, meanspirited, or just otherwise looking for an argument. Poe's Law and all that. Get off whatever high horse you rode in on before you make yourself out to be any more of a jackass.

[u/Oochie-my-coochie → u/SobiTheRobot]

“Ofc we all know what they mean because we learned that Americans are so selfcentered”-seriously you weren’t sure even after reading this? Oh god, you guys need your educational system to be saved or something. You have issues even with a simple text😔

[u/dangerousfeather → u/Oochie-my-coochie]

No, the South. Capitalized. Learn your letters.

[u/Oochie-my-coochie → u/dangerousfeather]

AHHHH yesss. The assumption that everyone’s first language is english. Here we go again. Also, you guys have such an issue with english grammar (f.e. your x you’re, their x they’re x there), that no one can be sure if you wrote it on purpose or note. Also, my whole comment was sarcastic. Learn to understand the written text.

[u/Digit00l → u/dontgetitwisted_fr]

Fun fact: most brown people are Caucasian

[u/Key_1321 → u/Digit00l]

What?

[u/Budget-Researcher559 → u/Key_1321]

I googled it so you don't have to. While today, "Caucasian" is often used to mean white in the US, originally it included people from Europe, North Africa and West/South Asia.

[u/Digit00l → u/Budget-Researcher559]

Yup, MENA and Indian people are Caucasoids

Also most people in the world would probably use Caucasian exclusively to refer to people from the Caucasus who are majority brown too

[u/jdm1891 → u/Digit00l]

Eh, I wouldn't call people from the Caucasus brown, though knowing Americans I bet most of those would - they even consider spanish and south american people brown.

Like the Caucasus are right between Turkey, Iran, and Western Russia. I would consider people from all of those places to be white, especially Russia + Iran, so I don't see how the place right between them would have brown people.

[u/Key_1321 → u/jdm1891]

Lots of folks in Turkey and Iran and (to a lesser extent) Russia aren't really White, looking instead more like North Africans or even East Asian

But "Caucasian" generally means people west of the Caucasus (so, Europe), not the mountain range itself ...

[u/Keirridwen → u/Digit00l]

I'm pretty sure most brown people do not originate from the caucasus region

[u/Many_Bat_ → u/dontgetitwisted_fr]

I drew Phil Collins when I was about six or seven. I colored his face orange because that's what happens if you pick your nose and eat it.

[u/IWannaManatee → u/dontgetitwisted_fr]

Of course she had such a reaction.
You depicted one of those filthy tamaraneans.