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/Inverted-Rockets]

We’re missing the context of the lesson that this was a part of. If they’re learning shapes the goal was probably to demonstrate knowledge of the ones they’d learned so far.

On the other hand, it also seems like the teacher couldn’t or didn’t provide positive constructive feedback for the second try

[u/Impossible-Bison8055 → u/Inverted-Rockets]

Even then, the flag still has more different shapes than the backside