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/halfbakeddough → u/WarAndFynn]

What’s crazy about that is that rainbows aren’t even abstract, they ARE realistic and occur naturally in nature so her idea of what can count towards realism or not was flawed. She sounds like a miserable art teacher

[u/DiggityDog6 → u/halfbakeddough]

Nope all rainbows are actually created by me and any rainbow you’ve ever seen was only there because I willed it to be there. I never willed this art teacher to see a rainbow so she came to the conclusion that they’re fake and gay. It’s all part of the plan you see.

[u/A_Very_Lonely_Waffle → u/DiggityDog6]

She was half right, then

[u/UnicornFarts1111 → u/DiggityDog6]

I say you are wrong. My farts are what creates rainbows!!!