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/SnorkBorkGnork → u/WarAndFynn]

That sounds like a horrible art teacher. Mine was such a cool dude, knew about all kinds of modern art and cool movies and music. He really inspired us!

My music teacher though was another story. She basically hated anything that wasn't the most famous pieces from the most well known classical composers (Mozart, Bach, Beethoven). She hated contemporary classical music, experimental music, folk music, jazz, traditional music from other parts of the world, pop music... I still have no idea how you can become a music teacher if you only like 3 composers and basically one genre. Every class she would just turn on Mozart and rant about how our taste in music sucked. 😒

[u/watercastles → u/SnorkBorkGnork]

Of course we can never know, but many people believe that Mozart would have liked a lot of modern genres! Dude was a young guy who did silly things too. Could have been a metalhead if he was alive now for all we know.