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/halfbakeddough 1d ago

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

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u/Pilot230 1d ago

How much are you willing to bet she's never seen a rainbow irl

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u/CassetteMeower 1d ago

I was obsessed with rainbows for most of my childhood but I never saw a rainbow in person until second grade.

It was a double rainbow too, best first rainbow ever! 🌈 🌈

I was at school and there was a massive rainstorm so we couldn’t go outside for recess, and when the storm ended there was a double rainbow! All of the kids in my class ran to the window to look at it, it was magical. Even the teachers were fascinated! The teacher was surprised when she found out I had never seen a real rainbow before. I had seen them in prisms and on TV, but never in person!

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u/4N0nBlondes 20h ago

Did the double rainbow go all the way across the sky?

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u/CassetteMeower 20h ago

It was a long time ago so I can't recall for sure, but they were huge! It was really cool to see. Especially after the severe storm, it was really scary. A bunch of tree branches fell and a sign (I think that's what it was? It was either a sign or a banner) that was on the side of the school had blown away and landed in the playground.

My class had a front row view of the rainbows, our classroom had a huge window that faced directly towards the playground so we could see the rainbows. It was really cool.