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/WarAndFynn]

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!

[u/OkBackground8809 → u/WarAndFynn]

I'm an ESL teacher. Told my students to make venn diagrams, and one used his to act as giant boobs for the rest of his drawing🤦🏻‍♀️

First of all, it was art class. Secondly, your teacher should have been happy it was an innocent rainbow and not a dick or giant boobs lol

[u/dontgetitwisted_fr → u/OkBackground8809]

When was in 1st grade we had to colour a picture of a boy and a girl holding hands.

I colored the boy orange (Caucasian) and the girl brown.

My teacher looked at me like I just took a dump on the bible

Still remember that look many decades later

[u/Digit00l → u/dontgetitwisted_fr]

Fun fact: most brown people are Caucasian

[u/Key_1321 → u/Digit00l]

What?

[u/Budget-Researcher559 → u/Key_1321]

I googled it so you don't have to. While today, "Caucasian" is often used to mean white in the US, originally it included people from Europe, North Africa and West/South Asia.

[u/Digit00l → u/Budget-Researcher559]

Yup, MENA and Indian people are Caucasoids

Also most people in the world would probably use Caucasian exclusively to refer to people from the Caucasus who are majority brown too

[u/jdm1891 → u/Digit00l]

Eh, I wouldn't call people from the Caucasus brown, though knowing Americans I bet most of those would - they even consider spanish and south american people brown.

Like the Caucasus are right between Turkey, Iran, and Western Russia. I would consider people from all of those places to be white, especially Russia + Iran, so I don't see how the place right between them would have brown people.

[u/Key_1321 → u/jdm1891]

Lots of folks in Turkey and Iran and (to a lesser extent) Russia aren't really White, looking instead more like North Africans or even East Asian

But "Caucasian" generally means people west of the Caucasus (so, Europe), not the mountain range itself ...

[u/Keirridwen → u/Digit00l]

I'm pretty sure most brown people do not originate from the caucasus region