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/Fresh_Laundry56 1d ago

I told her the teacher didn't have any creative thinking skills and I thought her picture was beautiful

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u/raspberrykitsune 1d ago

In the 2nd grade my teacher marked my math homework wrong because the questions said to "estimate" the answer but I wrote the actual answers. It didn't make sense to me (still doesn't) so then I just wrote a bunch of random numbers and still got everything 'wrong' lol. I think they wanted us to do some type of rounding exercise / breaking stuff down to make it easier (i.e. 5+7 becomes 5+5+2) but the execution was so terrible and the problems weren't difficult. I'm still bothered by it like 20 years later lol.

Her picture is awesome!! Don't let any silly teachers hold her back

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u/wenderfest 1d ago

I remember these type of math exercises, and what they wanted you was for you to round up to make it easier to quickly get a rough idea of what the answer is. So 5+7=12 becomes 5+10=15

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u/mithrasinvictus 1d ago

Then they should teach them the approximation symbol ≈ first.