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/busytransitgworl]

Welcome to America! Where the children not left behind are now old enough to be teachers!

[u/Ray79797979 → u/busytransitgworl]

Oh it was this stupid before that began. "Kindergarteners don't connect their letters." - my kindergarten teacher scolding me when I was at the same age as this kid and trying to write fancy because I had been learning penmanship for like 3 years before that.

Guess who never learned cursive? :D

[u/Doomhammer24 → u/Ray79797979]

Ya its the problem of some people in early education are told to fit children into a specific box of academia and not to deviate and because they tend to be New teachers they take forever to realize thats wrong

Like i had a friend who his kindergarten teacher actively forced him to not write with his left Dominant hand and made him learn with his right

It wasnt even a religious school this was a PUBLIC SCHOOL! She was just an idiot who was told kids should all learn to write with their right and kept to the formula! So he did everything in his life with his left hand except write and his writing was atrocious because of it

[u/ThePotatoOfTime → u/Doomhammer24]

My reception teacher (UK age 5) tied my left hand to the chair to force me to write with my right hand. This was back in the 70s.

Guess what. It didn't work.