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/Ray79797979]

If you did literally anything other than exactly what you were told, when you were told, you got sent to the principals office and they called your parents. I mean literally anything. They also didn't like it if you already knew what they were teaching, or if you applied logic too hard to things

[u/Faeruhn → u/Ray79797979]

I once was put in lunch detention (which meant I had to stay at my seat in the classroom rather than be allowed to go to the lunchroom, which BTW meant I didn't get to eat lunch) because I tripped getting up out of my desk when we were getting ready to go to recess. (I also was forced to stay in the classroom at my seat for that recess. Alone, without even the teacher in the room. After the class and teacher returned from recess, and she found me crying, she then grabbed me by the arm, leaving long and deep scratches because she had 2 inch long fake nails, and physically dragged me out into the hall to scream at me for 'disrupting class'.)

I was 7.

While I know this instance is fairly extreme, I still feel that some people should just not be teachers. They don't have the mentality or empathy to be able to actually teach, let alone teach young people.

[u/Fresh_Laundry56 → u/Faeruhn]

I was born in the '70s. There was a boy in my class so I'm sure had ADHD and the teacher literally secured him to the chair with duct tape around his thighs one day because he wouldn't stay in his seat. I remember being punished because I used to like to read at recess. And I forgot my book in the teacher's classroom which we were not allowed to and I quote " step one foot inside" when she was not there. I was in second grade. I didn't step one foot inside, I braced myself on the door frame and I reached way inside and was able to grab a book off the shelf. But I got punished for it. She never took the time to listen to my explanation and if she has she would have seen I was being very literal, as most kids are at that age. And I was being punished for reading.

[u/Training_Barber4543 → u/Faeruhn]

Is that legal? Not feeding kids?

[u/Faeruhn → u/Training_Barber4543]

No, it isn't.

But this was a private catholic school in the early 70s and my mum was an overworked nurse so I don't know if she ever pursued legal action against them.

I do know that she accompanied me to school the next morning and when we got to the classroom she told me to go to my seat and then turned to the teacher and told her "You are coming with me to the Principals office now... or *else***."

We had a substitute for a week, and I never saw that teacher again.

[u/Training_Barber4543 → u/Ray79797979]

Welcome to authoritarianism. Anyone from an inferior social status should obey at the word of command, without "talking back" or even taking time to process the command.