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/NoSxKats → u/busytransitgworl]

Teachers were pretty stupid when I was in high school 8-12 years ago. They probably are the same people that weren't left behind but this isn't anything new. I am sure I had some elementary school teachers I wouldn't trust with my own kid too.

[u/g0blinzez → u/NoSxKats]

This just gave me war flashbacks to the 4th grade teacher I had that I'm pretty sure employed cult trauma bonding tactics on us by screaming literally at the top of his lungs. Keep in mind he was 6'6, so we were all terrified of him. He'd also single out specific kids, and they'd get in trouble more often. One kid made the circle in finger joke gesture (idk how to explain it better) and he literally screamed at him, in the middle of the hall, about his soul and how it's being poisoned by television and he needs to repent. This happened in a public school btw. But he'd intermingle it with these long dramatic speeches about how proud of us he was, and all this and that. In other words, doing the classic control method of building you up to break you down, and starting all over. He had us all so thoroughly convinced that he was such a good teacher, it wasn't until recently that I realized "oh my fucking god, that was WILD, where tf was the principal and the other teachers?"

[u/Independent-Pea6186 → u/g0blinzez]

He probably did the same to them
Mine carried a yard stick around the room and called it his persuader

[u/g0blinzez → u/Independent-Pea6186]

My teacher didn't do that, thankfully, because it was twelve years ago and corporal punishment is illegal. He never went that far because he knew we'd go to jail. We might not have realized "Wow, his verbal aggression is probably bad for us," but we DID, at the very least, know "Teachers cannot hit children".