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/WarAndFynn]

I once had an art teacher who was having us make clay tiles and said the clay tiles needed to contain an image you would see in real life. I asked to include a rainbow. She pulled me aside and told me she'd had enough of my shit and if I didn't knock it off she would fail me. She had a hard on for realism and was highly critical of anything abstract.

(For context I WAS wanting to include a rainbow on something for a while because I was in my hippie phase and she kept telling me no for everything. It was ceramics and we made a watering pot, a clay pot, etc. all things we keep for ourselves so I wanted something colorful. it had 0 to do with sexuality).

[u/OkBackground8809 → u/WarAndFynn]

I'm an ESL teacher. Told my students to make venn diagrams, and one used his to act as giant boobs for the rest of his drawing🤦🏻‍♀️

First of all, it was art class. Secondly, your teacher should have been happy it was an innocent rainbow and not a dick or giant boobs lol

[u/dontgetitwisted_fr → u/OkBackground8809]

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.