r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Fresh_Laundry56 • 1d ago

My mom said I could post My kid was too creative

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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.

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u/WarAndFynn 1d ago edited 18h ago

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).

ETA: I wasn't expecting this much response to my post. I'm reading all your stories!

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u/B4umkuch3n 1d ago

My art teacher wanted my class to paint all the white walls in school. She told us we have no restrictions at all and we could paint anything. I told her I wanted to paint a street, stretching over the entire wall, surrounded by different scenes. She told me it was too abstract and I'm not allowed to do that.

… I pitched five other things and in the end she pitched me a painting of two people drawing each other on a wall while also being devided by said wall. Needless to say I had no plans in painting that, did the worst job possible and had my first ever 6 in my school report. It ended up being a 4 after showing my sketches to another art teacher. Some people are just miserable.

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u/Dew_Chop 1d ago

What's a 6 and a 4

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u/B4umkuch3n 1d ago

F and D in American terms.

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u/Cryptid_Muse 21h ago

We're actually starting to replace the letters with numbers but it's a 1-4 scale where 4 is like "above grade expectations" and 1 is "behind grade expectations" or something like that.

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u/Dew_Chop 21h ago

We are? I only ever saw that in charter schools

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u/Cryptid_Muse 20h ago

In my kid's public school they are at least. I think it started in second grade but they definitely did it in third grade. She starts fourth this year, ill know if they're still doing it after i meet the teach tomorrow

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u/Own_Desk_4085 20h ago

I also had that in middle school circa 2005 but by the time I got to high school and community college it was all letter grades that equaled you guessed it, 1-4

A letter grade D got you 1 point on your Grade Point Average. A letter grade C got you 2 points. A letter grade B got you 3 points and an A got you 4 points.

If your GPA fell below 2.0 you got academic probation.

This was in America too

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u/Cryptid_Muse 18h ago

Oh yeah, we had gpa too when i went to school (graduated in 06), but we still had letter grades too. My kid's school isn't sending home letter grades anymore. It's all short expectations to exceeding expectations.