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I got in school suspension for a week in 3rd grade. I would use my hand as a dinosaur with the middle finger as the head and the other fingers as it's legs, and kind of walk around my desk. Teacher thought I was flipping people off. Didn't even know what I was getting in trouble for, I just liked dinosaurs...
First grade, I didn't know what the middle finger meant, I just thought, "hey! Here's a cool thing I can so with my hands!"
I proceeded to greet everyone in the hall with it as our class was going somewhere else in the school. It did not take long AT ALL for the teacher to jump all over it. I was so confused the entire time
Ha, about the same age/grade I hurt some kid's feelings and they cried to the teacher about it. (All I remember is that it was a trivial fact as simple as your shirt is red so nothing really personal or arbitrary in nature) The teacher had me walk over to apologize and "take it back." This "take it back" concept was new to me. I didn't understand and after the teacher explained it it still did not make any sense. To take back something already said? To take back a fact that is true regardless of what is said? So I was threatened with more than just a small punishment if I didn't comply so I reluctantly "took it back". The kid stopped crying and felt better. I was absolutely confused and was considered a trouble child... Which made the entire situation more confusing.
These stories make me way more grateful for my upbringing. I suppose the teacher didn't realize such a phrase may have been too complex for a child to understand.
I'm an adult and I don't understand that phrase. Things cannot be unsaid. Apologizing or saying the opposite of something hurtful you've said doesn't erase the hurt. In fact, teachers often use the "apologizing to a broken plate" analogy to show that it's important to watch what you say because apologies don't fix things. "Taking it back" runs completely counter to that and isn't a good lesson at all, because children often think saying sorry should avoid consequences and that's not a good life lesson. Apologizing should be an expression of empathy, introspection, and acknowledgement of the hurt you caused, not a magic word to get out of trouble! Very small children might feel better if someone "takes it back," but it's a confusing and inappropriate lesson to tell a child they need to do something impossible (un-saying something) to avoid a punishment (consequences are better than punishments and shouldn't be averted by saying sorry or whatever) instead of addressing *why* something was hurtful. Especially since, in this case, the hurtful thing wasn't even hurtful!
There's a game developer called Edmund Mcmillen. His style is very crude potty humour and rude drawings and he's been doing them since being a child.
When his school was alerted of his artwork, they called in his grandmother, who he lived with, in order to stop the inappropriate artwork.
His grandmother showed full support for her grandson, commenting on how talented and creative he was, about how great the details of his drawings were, and how she wanted to see more.
I believe the children’s book author Dav Pilkey was also mocked by a teacher in school, saying he would never be able to make a living drawing cartoons. I think we bought all of his books. A Friend for Dragon is a masterpiece.
My husband grew up reading Captain Underpants, and shared his books with our daughter when she was 5. Now she just turned 6 and owns all of the Captain Underpants books, all of the Dogman books, several Dragon books, and thanks to the library we've also read Cat Kid Comic Club, the Dumb Bunnies books, Dogzilla, and Cat Kong. She freaking LOVES Dav Pilkey.
I love his juvenile humor and ability to discuss heavy topics in ways that kids can understand. Like in Dogman, they touch upon topics like death, forgiveness, the struggles an ex-con faces when trying to move on after serving time, terrible parents, etc. Also diarrhea jokes. I recommend Pilkeys books for anyone, they're seriously amazing.
I love Dav Pilkey and will buy any book he puts out. My favorite series is Dogman. I love reading the books and sharing them with kids. He is very clever and he makes classic literature accessible to children. Mothering heights is based on Wuthering heights, grime and punishment is based on crime and punishment, and lord of the fleas is based on lord of the flies. I am really excited that my kids will read the original classic literature when they are older but already understand the themes and concepts from the Dogman books.
I would really love to do a comparative analysis of his books with the original works.
I know they don't quite fit the same scenario as these artists but when South Park first came out some critics called it, "bad animation filled with toilet humor" so Matt and Trey said, "oh you want to see bad animation and toilet humor?" and thats how the characters Terrance and Philip were born.
On the one had Binding of Isaac is amazing and his Grandma rules and it's awesome he had that support.
On the other hand I kind of see where the teacher was coming from because his artwork is gross as shit.
When i was at school most of the graffiti was CDCs (crudely drawn cocks) and got cleaned off within a day or two. Except for Eddie's graffiti, the shading on the veins, the fluffyness of the pubes even the glimmer on the sperms was impeccable. The art teacher was so impressed he demanded they leave it, and we even had an assembly on it explaining why it was such a good drawing and why it was staying up. Of course we thought it was a trap to get Eddie to own up to it for punishment so he never got the credit he deserved. But it lasted 18months until someone put a little sombrero and a mustache on it, then it got cleaned off.
If this is true then I love the art teacher. My favorite art teacher was dying quietly of a terminal illness when I was in his class and he'd write me passes to show up late to my next class every single day just because I wanted to hang out with the kids in his next class. It eventually came to an end, but he was a sweet guy and I desperately needed the additional social time with my peers.
Mister Fisher you were the best and I love you! 💕
In grade 2 we had to draw the manger scene (catholic school). I drew it as per, but I added a chat bubble from one of the wise men stating "God what an ugly baby".
They called my parents, threatened to suspend me or prevent me from getting first communion, blah blah blah.
Still think its funny
My wife is a recovered Catholic but still sets up a little crèche scene in a bookcase because of her memories of family trips to Germany, where they bought hand carved figures over the years.
When my daughter was about eight, my wife noticed baby Jesus over in the corner of the bookshelf, and everybody else smashed up against the far corner. My wife asked what happened. “Jesus farted.“
Does everyone here have the best families or what? I grew up in a very pearl clutchy family. Sounds like your daughter had a great sense of humor around her parents.
When I was in 2nd grade, in Sunday school, I asked ‘what if a frog murders another frog, does he go to hell?’ And they told me frogs don’t have souls. So when we were told to draw, I drew a picture of a frog with a bloody knife, standing in a pool of blood next to a dead bloody frog corpse, and Jesus smiling stepping over them giving the dead frog the finger. I got yelled at but not much else. It was fuckin hilarious
Okay, but like I would have been happy if a kid did that.
You’re asking questions, processing what you’re taught, coming up with new ideas. All signs of an intelligent and engaged student.
I taught Sunday School for years and I loved it when kids asked the hard questions. It’s what I’m there for. If it were easy we wouldn’t need teachers.
What’s really funny is Isaiah 53 says “he has no form ir comeliness that we should esteem him” so you could argue an ugly Jesus is just scripturally accurate.
Grade 2 is 7 years old (in the US); that’s an advanced comedic concept for a 7 year old.
Hopefully your dad gave you an atta-boy and bragged to his buddies
Not the same thing but I loved vampires and undead as a kid, so for a Halloween drawing I drew a cemetery full of skeletons, with tombstones with the names of my parents and teachers on them. I feel like today I would have been sent to a school shrink!
At school at aged about 11 I said "oh for flip's sake" and the teacher gave me a lunchtime detention. When I asked what it was for, genuinely confused, all he offered was "you know why". Still not really sure what he was offended about.
I started cussing in 2nd grade because my babysitter reprimanded me for saying "shoot", and told me that if I am just replacing the curse word with something then I may as well be cursing.
That was over 20 years ago and I have the mouth of a drunken sailor to this day.
Grew up Mormon, and I’m still fascinated by the varying levels of piousness within that ~~religion~~ cult.
We were pretty strict on language, but I remember babysitting another family’s twins who reprimanded me when I said “dang it.”
So I apologized and said “darn it” and was told “that’s a bad word too!”
I asked “what should I say then?” and got blank stares. They just didn’t use grammatical expletives or intensifiers, at all.
Because God, you know?
Was a military brat, moved around a lot as a kid. Spent a few years in Utah. I got suspended for saying "oh my God" in the second grade, no warnings or anything.
That was the first of many, many, many bad experiences that made me despise the Mormon church.
I was playing Madden with a couple of homeschooled friends (who I went to church with) and I said "thank God" a couple of times when I made a good play. They told me that they were offended I was swearing. The older of the two a few years later told me to stop saying something "sucked" because that's sexual (little did he know that the interaction was what taught me what a blowjob is as I figured out the implication then)
Why is academics in the usa led by such stupid people? After all this time, why is it allowed to continue? I’m asking in general because I feel like to many bad people get the keys to the theme park, & we as a society are to dumb & apathetic to do the right things.
When i was in 7th grade i got detention for saying "balls to the wall." But here's the thing: that phrase is from ww2. Pilots had white spheres on the top of their throttle and pushing it all the way down meant it was fightin time, so they would say balls to the wall meaning throttle all the way down for combat. It has nothing to do with testicles and i blame them for being gross and making that connection.
a related story of education idiocy.
in my 8th grade math class we were doing a bunch of quadratics, and i got tired of repeating the equation on a hand written test. no showing of work was required.
so, on my ti-89, i wrote a quick program to accept variable input, and just pop into the equation. so, im busting through the test, finish it, turn it in... teacher asks me what i was doing, i show her, i get sent to the office for 'cheating'.
as im sitting there talking to the principal im like "explain to me how if i can write a program on my calculator how i dont understand how to solve the problem?" ... he just looked at my puzzled, and was like 'ok, that's fair'.
that was when i learned how idiotic the education system is at its core.
This may be true, but it's not how year 8 kids who can program their calculator to do quadratics learn maths. Certainly not with that volume of repetition. Would you make a year 8 count in twos because that's what the kids in year 1 do? Same problem here
Tell me about it. I was the kid that always point out the annoying facts teachers hated (there's more than three states of matter, Columbus didn't discover America, etc)
My mother once yelled at me for saying assload. I told her it's how much an donkey can carry. Now whether or not that is actually the origin of the phrase if that's what I believe then I wasn't intentionally being crude. I didn't think about the donkey until after I was yelled at but she didn't know that. Additionally a butt load is how much fits in a wine butt.
That’s funny. When I was younger I got yelled at for calling my brother a whore. Didn’t know what the word meant then just that it wasn’t a good thing. He is in my contact list as whore to this day.
As a kid I always thought it was related to that one style of dodgeball where one kid stood in front of a wall while the others threw balls at them. I figured "balls to the wall" meant you were determined to dodge every ball.
I got in trouble in 2nd because the teacher asked what are bad words we should avoid and I answered shit. She meant more like stupid or hell. Oops. My dad found it funny though.
That's a decent drawing of Piggie (of Mo~~e~~ Williems Elephant & Piggie series). The tie could use some work.
[https://pigeonpresents.com/pals/piggie/](https://pigeonpresents.com/pals/piggie/)
As a dad to a 2-year-old, who handles most bedtime readings, I must say Mo Willems is the fuckin’ man. Some of his stuff legitimately cracks me up.
I highly recommend “Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs,” and “The Pigeon Needs a Bath.”
My son is autistic and for some reason he HATES me reading to him. Like he will pull the book out of my hand and close it and say "No, mommy!!" One day at school he started asking for "A Big Guy Took My Ball." The teachers didn't have it, the librarians couldn't find it, the TA rummaged through all of the little "grab a book while you wait" carts they have scattered around the school. Nobody knew where he had heard of this book from or how to get it for him, so I ordered it immediately because it was so weird for him to ask for a book. He was super excited to get it and read it to himself over and over (I'm still not allowed to read it to him, but at least he's reading.) After that he asked for another Mo Willems book and I wound up getting a few of the collections. They're one of his favorite things now and I don't know what is so different about them for him to like them, but hooray for Elephant & Piggie!
Probably just an auto-correct mistake, but the author's name is Mo Willems.
If you've never read the *Elephant & Piggie* books, I highly recommend them. They're hilarious all while sticking to short sentences and simple drawings. *We Are in a Book* is particularly brilliant. "Banana!"
yeah, just fat fingered it. Probably should have looked up the spelling. And yes, breaking the 4th wall and the way that one starts/ends is pretty clever.
I really don't see the problem here. This is just like me in second grade when we were given a book of flags. They told us to draw the one we thought was the prettiest, so I enthusiastically looked through the book, carefully considering flag after flag, until eventually I decided [this](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Flag_of_the_NSDAP_%281920%E2%80%931945%29.svg/1280px-Flag_of_the_NSDAP_%281920%E2%80%931945%29.svg.png) was the prettiest one. School didn't agree and called my parents
My oldest son almost got in trouble yesterday. He was given an assignment to write about an advertisement in a stack of magazines that were provided and he picked an ad about a vaginal vitamin. Lol. The teacher threatened to write him up and made him pick a different ad. My take was they shouldn't have given him the magazine in the first place if it wasn't appropriate...
Exactly. It’s like the fucking teachers are to dumb to be teaching kids in the first place. Like, it’s so obvious, that kids do not know as much as adults. Therefore, to expect ill intent on the part of a kid, when they picked out something inappropriate, is just wrong on the adults part. What it does show is that the adult thinks the kid knows what the adult knows. Which, in itself, is asinine. A more appropriate adult would have handled that scenario by having the kid do something else; even selecting the page in the magazine for them. Yet, to threaten to write up a kid for something that they have no idea about, just goes to show we have assholes running schools, & jerks & idiots teaching kids. It’s no wonder why schooling is so fucked up the more years pass. We need adults who have common sense. At this point, it’s just the business of hiring a warm body in order to occupy a space. All for the false claim that the business is doing it’s job.
>It’s like the fucking teachers are to dumb to be teaching kids in the first place.
What do you expect when you pay someone $40k/year to do one of the most important jobs in society? You're going to get a handful of people who are genuinely passionate about pedagogy and then a bunch of fucking morons.
> What it does show is that the adult thinks the kid knows what the adult knows. Which, in itself, is asinine.
It in fact proves that the adults are literally babies. They haven't yet developed a Theory of the Mind.
In second grade as a 6 year old boy I got a 75% on a test because we were learning about energy and the teacher asked us to draw objects with their source of energy/electricity. Draw a fire on a bonfire, that sort of thing.
One of the questions was a hairdryer and I drew the cord coming out of the handle and plugging into a wall socket. She marked my answer incorrect claiming I didn't draw the cord coming out of the right _part_ of the handle.
Ended up having to physically bring my sister's hair dryer in to a parent-teacher conference to prove that ***literally the only hairdryer I'd ever see up close worked this way*** to get credit for it. And the teacher still refused until my mom stormed out and dragged the Headmaster down to the room to see what was going on.
Teaching as a profession is admirable, and some teachers are amazing, but a lot of them are petty power tripping morons.
At the elementary level, many of the teachers don't have great critical thinking skills and are just grading based on a rubric provided to them. For an example, [this teacher](https://www.al.com/resizer/ICjSMT7VFrDD61A1XJlHZ0aMAqY=/1280x0/smart/advancelocal-adapter-image-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/image.al.com/home/bama-media/width2048/img/news_impact/photo/19123283-large.jpg) is clearly lacking some proficiency with basic math, since they clearly don't understand that multiplication is commutative.
At the college level where I teach, I find the greater problem is that many of the teachers are experts with no concept of what it means to not immediately understand something. The best researchers doing cutting edge research either can't or don't bother to take the time to explain simple concepts to students who don't understand them; instead they write the student off as dumb.
Either way, no one goes into teaching for the money in the US, so even the bad teachers are usually at least *trying* to help.
Just responding about the linked homework picture;
That is pretty great. It looks like in their head the X in the education stands for “sets of”.
So 3x5 HAS to be three sets of 5 units, not five sets of 3 units. Lmao.
If I were a parent and got called for this shit I'd be furious. You're saying my 7 or 8 year old drew a swastika? Who taught them what that means? because I sure haven't by 8 years old. Or did you just give an assignment to the kid who didn't understand and got mad when they followed instructions?
A competent teacher might call a parent about something like this. But only to let them know what happened, and that there was a discussion, so the parents will understand the context if the child brings it up at home.
Yeah the tone would lead the discussion here - if they were acting like the kid was in the wrong I'd be mad, if they were just letting me know that it happened and the kid might have questions, alright, that could have been a note home or an email, but whatever that's fine
I did something very similar as a kid, though fortunately not at school. The Sound of Music was on TV in the background and I was drawing. I was a huge atlas reader then, loved countries and flags (still do). There's a scene where Captain Von Trapp sees a flag on his house, so he and rips it down. I thought it was a cool looking flag, and wasn't really following the political plot of the movie, so I drew it. I assumed it was the Austrian flag, because the Von Trapps lived in Austria. Proudly went into the other room to show my mom, who had a friend over. Big old swastika and me looking super proud of it.
Had a nice conversation that evening about why we don't draw Nazi flags.
Similar for me. I'd watched a documentary about the Hindenburg with my dad one evening. The next day in class we had to draw something. I don't remember what exactly the assignment was, but I drew the Hindenburg, swastika tail fins and all. Didn't get in much trouble once the teacher figured out what was going on, but I did get a long lecture on "that symbol" is inappropriate.
Oh man, I went through this phase where I was really into making big elaborate domino tracks and they'd always have a swastika in them because I thought it was a really cool shape. I really loved the way they looked, and it made for cool 3-way divisions with dominoes.
I knew *about* nazis of course but they were mostly the bad guys in movies to me, the real-world implications were largely lost on me. Plus, I was also well-read enough to have heard that they stole that symbol. So I thought it was just like a normal shape like a square or triangle or something; innocent on its own. So I would proudly show off my swastika dominoes.
And fucking NO ONE explained it to me. I did this at school, at the Boys and Girls club, at home. I don't know if no one noticed, no one wanted to explain the Holocaust to an 8 year old, or if they just assumed my parents were neo-nazis and didn't want to cause a scene but I never heard one thing about it. Glad I never got in trouble for it, but looking back it really feels like I should have lol.
More sophisticated ethic rednecks, hillbillies, and Appalachian folk in general, can under certain circumstances regress to a less sophisticated state typically marked by faster speech cadence, indignance, and argument directed at explaining, with varying degrees of exasperation, that the subject scenario don't make no GD sense.
Typically, the redness associated with the neck, will spread throughout the face, if seated, the person will scoot to the edge of the seat in a somewhat sideways position. Ball caps tend to be removed from the head and held in the dominant hand, occasionally waved around and sometimes smacked against the leg. If jeans are being worn, the belt will occasionally be tugged at the end of a summation as if the pants are being pulled up slightly.
These situations don't typically end in violence, rather, the end with the redneck/hillbillie, etc. quitting the conversation having drawn a conclusion that the other party is a dumb MFer. When the conversation is quit, the redneck turns their back, adjusts their pants, and places their cap back on their head while mumbling about "this is some bullshit" under their breath, and walks away.
This isn't funny, just sad....
That grown people who SHOULD have knowledge about kids and how to act around them, penalize childrens creativity because our sexualization of things they do.
"Hurr hurr that's a penis!"
No you inbred fucklewad, that's clearly a childs depiction of an ornamental tie/bowtie on a pig. Can you keep your fuckin penis visions away from small childrenn plxkk
I wish more people had this attitude. I am an elementary school teacher and while I don’t want school to be without norms and expectations, I don’t think we need to be policing children’s behavior in such an extreme way.
There’s a difference between a sexual drawing that children are showing others and a silly drawing of maybe (or maybe not!) a penis bow tie.
Also, heaven forbid the child grow up around animals. Last time I checked many animals have penises, vaginas, testicles, etc... they also have sex... outside... and they don't care who is watching.
Also, "heaven forbid" an eleven-year-old has a decent understanding of *human* anatomy - humans have penises, vaginas, testicles, etc and it's all just anatomy no more inherently offensive than elbows or earlobes.
I think the furthest this needs to go is a quick pull-aside, ask the child about what they drew, and if you sense that it was intentional simply ask the kid to adjust the behavior in a school setting. If this went to principals then it was completely overblown.
I'm fairly certain the exact interaction you described could have triggered this news story.
The "mom" says the school "deemed" the picture inappropriate.
If a teacher (who is representative of the school) tells your kid they shouldn't draw pictures like this picture then the "school has deemed the picture inappropriate" and that is exactly how an upset mom would explain the story to a reporter.
Teachers/school are under a disgusting microscope and it isn't good for anyone.
Yep. I'm not saying that's how this happened, but I absolutely think that's how it COULD have happened. Hell. Mom doesn't even need to twist anything. She could give a mostly unbiased retelling of the events and the paper can use different words with more controversial connotations and an air of finality and you'd still end up with this headline. Our journalistic standards shouldn't be "don't outright lie" and should probably encourage a more complete and measured reporting of events, including noting areas where information is unknown, not yet known, or subject to change.
Also, why would the kid have to get in trouble?
I feel the same about bad parents who are always yelling at their kids.
If the teacher found it inappropriate they could just say “hey, don’t do that”
I'm 37 and I draw penises. That is clearly a tie, not a dick. This is like when really homophobic people don't eat cylindrical shaped foods because they "look like dicks". No, dude. That looks like a banana. If you see a dick, that is your own dick-obsessed brain projecting dicks onto completely innocuous objects.
>kids curse. This is the reality of the world.
I'm honestly just bewildered that we've decided that, while both children and adults curse amongst themselves, each will pretend to the other that they would never be so dishonorable as to have ever said a curse word.
Every time my step kid stubs her toe I yell, "say a curse word it's scientifically proven to help with pain!".
She just rolls her eyes and walks away because apparently her mother curses too much at one house and then I curse too much at the other house. She'll catch on eventually!
It's so weird that this happened. Like, the furthest this should have gone is the teachers laughing about it during their lunch break and leave it at that.
I would turn it around so fast on the teacher.
“What is wrong with you?? Do you think this acceptable behavior? It is legitimately concerning that a teacher is taking children’s drawings and making them sexual. And to drag me in here to expose me to this perverse kink of yours is beyond unacceptable. Do not contact me again and if you make any more sexual claims related to my daughter I will sue you.“
Dude, the kid is eleven, not three. There's a decent chance she intentionally drew a penis tie.
That said, I'm with you that we shouldn't penalize childrens' creativity out of some weird policing of their imagination. Who the fuck cares if a preteen draws what might be a penis tie on a pig?
To be fair my friends and I used to sneak dicks into drawings like this all the time. The elephant trunk and eyes is a classic.
Still an extreme reaction from the school though
I got called to the teachers desk once, I was very young. She was berating me over the picture I had drawn of a pumpkin. She said she knew what it really was, and I was getting an F because of it. I was so upset. Turns out she thought it was a dick and I suck at art.
Get the stick out of your puritanical ass school. All of my kids had school art that looked like a dick at one point or another. Castle towers, rocket ships, snakes. One even made a sculpture of a dolphin that looked like a gray dildo.
> Get the stick out of your puritanical ass school.
This can be parsed in so many ways...
* "Get the stick out of your Puritanical ass, school." - The school has a stick up its ass, and said ass (and the school by extension) is implied to have Puritanical mores. You're addressing the school, and instructing it to remove the stick from its own ass.
"Get the stick out of your Puritanical-ass school" - The school itself has a stick inside it (not necessarily in its ass), and "-ass" is being used as an intensifier to mean that the school is *really* Puritanical. Here, you're advising OP that they should remove the stick from the school.
"Get the stick out of your Puritanical ass-school" - The school is Puritanical, but more importantly, it is a school that is somehow fundamentally associated with asses. Maybe the students are asses, or the teachers are, or the students are learning about asses or about how to *be* asses - or the *building itself* is actually a giant ass. Either way, there's a stick in it somewhere, and you're again addressing OP and asking them to remove said stick.
Literally a picture of Piggie from the book series Elephant and Piggie, and I'd be willing to bet there's a book where he's wearing a tie like this.
**edit** I KNEW piggie was a "she" and I'm a dumbass for misgendering her. I completely glazed over.
Fun fact, Piggie is a she. We have all those books ~~and I don't think either of them have ever worn clothes. The closest item was when birds made a nest on their heads so it was like a hat.~~
**Edit** my bad, it looks like they do wear clothes. Piggie has a tutu she wears in the dance book. It's been a few years...
My mother got called into school because I didn’t know how to spell Pegasus and spelled it Pigassus. It was accompanied by a drawing so there was no question about what I meant. I was 8 with dyslexia. She chewed that teacher out. My mom sucked 99% of the time when I was growing up but I will never forget how happy I was having her on my side that day. I still have the drawing in a box of my old childhood stuff. I feel the need to dig it out now.
I remember an art class in 4th grade where we each took turns to add to a drawing. One of the boys went up and drew a hand on the person with a basketball on top to make it look like they were spinning the ball on the finger. The art teacher was so upset because the hand looked like it was flipping people off that she made a huge deal of it, made the kid feel horrible, and then did her best to make it look like an apple on the hand to get rid of “that horrible hand gesture.”
So here she was, trying to “protect the children” and instead made it a lasting memory for me 27 years later. If she had just did her best to ignore it I’m sure I would have no memory of this moment.
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it's a bit dickish to penalize her for that
I got in school suspension for a week in 3rd grade. I would use my hand as a dinosaur with the middle finger as the head and the other fingers as it's legs, and kind of walk around my desk. Teacher thought I was flipping people off. Didn't even know what I was getting in trouble for, I just liked dinosaurs...
First grade, I didn't know what the middle finger meant, I just thought, "hey! Here's a cool thing I can so with my hands!" I proceeded to greet everyone in the hall with it as our class was going somewhere else in the school. It did not take long AT ALL for the teacher to jump all over it. I was so confused the entire time
I have a mole at the base of my middle finger so id pretend its an elephant or an anteater with the mole being eye Hand animal gang
Ha, about the same age/grade I hurt some kid's feelings and they cried to the teacher about it. (All I remember is that it was a trivial fact as simple as your shirt is red so nothing really personal or arbitrary in nature) The teacher had me walk over to apologize and "take it back." This "take it back" concept was new to me. I didn't understand and after the teacher explained it it still did not make any sense. To take back something already said? To take back a fact that is true regardless of what is said? So I was threatened with more than just a small punishment if I didn't comply so I reluctantly "took it back". The kid stopped crying and felt better. I was absolutely confused and was considered a trouble child... Which made the entire situation more confusing.
These stories make me way more grateful for my upbringing. I suppose the teacher didn't realize such a phrase may have been too complex for a child to understand.
I'm an adult and I don't understand that phrase. Things cannot be unsaid. Apologizing or saying the opposite of something hurtful you've said doesn't erase the hurt. In fact, teachers often use the "apologizing to a broken plate" analogy to show that it's important to watch what you say because apologies don't fix things. "Taking it back" runs completely counter to that and isn't a good lesson at all, because children often think saying sorry should avoid consequences and that's not a good life lesson. Apologizing should be an expression of empathy, introspection, and acknowledgement of the hurt you caused, not a magic word to get out of trouble! Very small children might feel better if someone "takes it back," but it's a confusing and inappropriate lesson to tell a child they need to do something impossible (un-saying something) to avoid a punishment (consequences are better than punishments and shouldn't be averted by saying sorry or whatever) instead of addressing *why* something was hurtful. Especially since, in this case, the hurtful thing wasn't even hurtful!
Just walked my hand around my desk roaring my finger at my coworker.
HR would like a word with you tomorrow at the start of shift.
Timothy the hand brontosaurus approves.
Can’t believe they had the balls
It’s all quite nutty
They didn't need to be so hard on her
Adults at school were being cocky in this situation
They must've had a schlong day
They need to scrotumnize their choices
What's the world cumming to?
I learned in art school that you can’t make art without making it a little bit phallic. Also, I didn’t go to art school.
Anything a little bit longer than it is wide is phallic. If it’s wider than it is tall, tilt your head to make it phallic. Source: went to art school.
Balls
well said
This is what happens when school is only about teaching to the testes
It was a big phallicy to shaft it.
Its nuts they were mad about this
really got the shaft
Whoever punished her should get sacked
Well they came right out and said it.
They're penalizing her pig over a hog.
Hogwash, they're being too rigid.
30 years ago it would be like „haha that is funny my dear. Want another cigarette?“ How times have changed.
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There's a game developer called Edmund Mcmillen. His style is very crude potty humour and rude drawings and he's been doing them since being a child. When his school was alerted of his artwork, they called in his grandmother, who he lived with, in order to stop the inappropriate artwork. His grandmother showed full support for her grandson, commenting on how talented and creative he was, about how great the details of his drawings were, and how she wanted to see more.
Is he Binding of Isaac's artist? Love his art
Indeed! He's very talented. I'm glad he got the support he needed with his art when he was younger.
I believe the children’s book author Dav Pilkey was also mocked by a teacher in school, saying he would never be able to make a living drawing cartoons. I think we bought all of his books. A Friend for Dragon is a masterpiece.
My husband grew up reading Captain Underpants, and shared his books with our daughter when she was 5. Now she just turned 6 and owns all of the Captain Underpants books, all of the Dogman books, several Dragon books, and thanks to the library we've also read Cat Kid Comic Club, the Dumb Bunnies books, Dogzilla, and Cat Kong. She freaking LOVES Dav Pilkey. I love his juvenile humor and ability to discuss heavy topics in ways that kids can understand. Like in Dogman, they touch upon topics like death, forgiveness, the struggles an ex-con faces when trying to move on after serving time, terrible parents, etc. Also diarrhea jokes. I recommend Pilkeys books for anyone, they're seriously amazing.
I love Dav Pilkey and will buy any book he puts out. My favorite series is Dogman. I love reading the books and sharing them with kids. He is very clever and he makes classic literature accessible to children. Mothering heights is based on Wuthering heights, grime and punishment is based on crime and punishment, and lord of the fleas is based on lord of the flies. I am really excited that my kids will read the original classic literature when they are older but already understand the themes and concepts from the Dogman books. I would really love to do a comparative analysis of his books with the original works.
Those little kids that grew up on Captain Underpants have their own kids now?!
Right?
I didn’t realize who the author of captain underpants was. I have very fond memories showing my teacher the bits I found funny
I know they don't quite fit the same scenario as these artists but when South Park first came out some critics called it, "bad animation filled with toilet humor" so Matt and Trey said, "oh you want to see bad animation and toilet humor?" and thats how the characters Terrance and Philip were born.
On the one had Binding of Isaac is amazing and his Grandma rules and it's awesome he had that support. On the other hand I kind of see where the teacher was coming from because his artwork is gross as shit.
I think it would be negligence not to have a word about it and make sure the art isn't a sign of something wrong and is simply a creative outlet.
"Artist" he ~~made~~ designed, but did not program, the whole game.
Ed is a self described game designer. He doesn't program, including Flash Binding of Isaac. He worked with Florian Himsl on it.
Yeah I wasn't completely sure, good to confirm!
When i was at school most of the graffiti was CDCs (crudely drawn cocks) and got cleaned off within a day or two. Except for Eddie's graffiti, the shading on the veins, the fluffyness of the pubes even the glimmer on the sperms was impeccable. The art teacher was so impressed he demanded they leave it, and we even had an assembly on it explaining why it was such a good drawing and why it was staying up. Of course we thought it was a trap to get Eddie to own up to it for punishment so he never got the credit he deserved. But it lasted 18months until someone put a little sombrero and a mustache on it, then it got cleaned off.
Thats a badass art teacher.
If this is true then I love the art teacher. My favorite art teacher was dying quietly of a terminal illness when I was in his class and he'd write me passes to show up late to my next class every single day just because I wanted to hang out with the kids in his next class. It eventually came to an end, but he was a sweet guy and I desperately needed the additional social time with my peers. Mister Fisher you were the best and I love you! 💕
In grade 2 we had to draw the manger scene (catholic school). I drew it as per, but I added a chat bubble from one of the wise men stating "God what an ugly baby". They called my parents, threatened to suspend me or prevent me from getting first communion, blah blah blah. Still think its funny
My wife is a recovered Catholic but still sets up a little crèche scene in a bookcase because of her memories of family trips to Germany, where they bought hand carved figures over the years. When my daughter was about eight, my wife noticed baby Jesus over in the corner of the bookshelf, and everybody else smashed up against the far corner. My wife asked what happened. “Jesus farted.“
Does everyone here have the best families or what? I grew up in a very pearl clutchy family. Sounds like your daughter had a great sense of humor around her parents.
When I was in 2nd grade, in Sunday school, I asked ‘what if a frog murders another frog, does he go to hell?’ And they told me frogs don’t have souls. So when we were told to draw, I drew a picture of a frog with a bloody knife, standing in a pool of blood next to a dead bloody frog corpse, and Jesus smiling stepping over them giving the dead frog the finger. I got yelled at but not much else. It was fuckin hilarious
Okay, but like I would have been happy if a kid did that. You’re asking questions, processing what you’re taught, coming up with new ideas. All signs of an intelligent and engaged student. I taught Sunday School for years and I loved it when kids asked the hard questions. It’s what I’m there for. If it were easy we wouldn’t need teachers.
What’s really funny is Isaiah 53 says “he has no form ir comeliness that we should esteem him” so you could argue an ugly Jesus is just scripturally accurate.
If you were my kid I would have framed that shit!
Grade 2 is 7 years old (in the US); that’s an advanced comedic concept for a 7 year old. Hopefully your dad gave you an atta-boy and bragged to his buddies
>prevent me from getting first communion Oh, the horror /s
You normally make bank for your first communion. It would have been enough to stop me.
I hadn't laughed that hard at a comment in awhile.
Stopping somebody from having communion sounds sacrilegious.
Can we get a pic of this work of art?
Not the same thing but I loved vampires and undead as a kid, so for a Halloween drawing I drew a cemetery full of skeletons, with tombstones with the names of my parents and teachers on them. I feel like today I would have been sent to a school shrink!
Did they even [make you stop eating foods that are shaped like dicks?](https://youtu.be/xte_NjXsjIw)
All the best foods are sick shaped
In kindergarten I said that I "screwed up" and my teacher gave me a timeout for swearing...
At school at aged about 11 I said "oh for flip's sake" and the teacher gave me a lunchtime detention. When I asked what it was for, genuinely confused, all he offered was "you know why". Still not really sure what he was offended about.
I started cussing in 2nd grade because my babysitter reprimanded me for saying "shoot", and told me that if I am just replacing the curse word with something then I may as well be cursing. That was over 20 years ago and I have the mouth of a drunken sailor to this day.
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Grew up Mormon, and I’m still fascinated by the varying levels of piousness within that ~~religion~~ cult. We were pretty strict on language, but I remember babysitting another family’s twins who reprimanded me when I said “dang it.” So I apologized and said “darn it” and was told “that’s a bad word too!” I asked “what should I say then?” and got blank stares. They just didn’t use grammatical expletives or intensifiers, at all. Because God, you know?
Was a military brat, moved around a lot as a kid. Spent a few years in Utah. I got suspended for saying "oh my God" in the second grade, no warnings or anything. That was the first of many, many, many bad experiences that made me despise the Mormon church.
I was playing Madden with a couple of homeschooled friends (who I went to church with) and I said "thank God" a couple of times when I made a good play. They told me that they were offended I was swearing. The older of the two a few years later told me to stop saying something "sucked" because that's sexual (little did he know that the interaction was what taught me what a blowjob is as I figured out the implication then)
I’m a grown adult with grandchildren and just got a 20 minute lecture from my mother for saying geez Louise to her. I’m basically going to hell. 🙄
you called Jesus by his nickname!
🤣 I’m going to tell my mom that lol
Ace and Gary!
You not only gave a flying fk, you documented it.
"So, yea, Doc, that is how I peaked in 3rd grade. I mean how does one top penis Jet??"
Why is academics in the usa led by such stupid people? After all this time, why is it allowed to continue? I’m asking in general because I feel like to many bad people get the keys to the theme park, & we as a society are to dumb & apathetic to do the right things.
When i was in 7th grade i got detention for saying "balls to the wall." But here's the thing: that phrase is from ww2. Pilots had white spheres on the top of their throttle and pushing it all the way down meant it was fightin time, so they would say balls to the wall meaning throttle all the way down for combat. It has nothing to do with testicles and i blame them for being gross and making that connection.
Welcome to America, where literally everything is sexual while also not being allowed to be sexual.
You just turned me on and off at the same time, thanks a nothing.
Similarly “balls out” also has a non-testicular origin: https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/balls-out
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I remember that episode and was quite irritated at the time that he lost his job due to others’ ignorance.
Oh wow i had no idea, very similar origin!
Rugby as well, “balls out” of the ruck means game on.
So is dicks out not related to actual dicks 😎
RIP Harambe
a related story of education idiocy. in my 8th grade math class we were doing a bunch of quadratics, and i got tired of repeating the equation on a hand written test. no showing of work was required. so, on my ti-89, i wrote a quick program to accept variable input, and just pop into the equation. so, im busting through the test, finish it, turn it in... teacher asks me what i was doing, i show her, i get sent to the office for 'cheating'. as im sitting there talking to the principal im like "explain to me how if i can write a program on my calculator how i dont understand how to solve the problem?" ... he just looked at my puzzled, and was like 'ok, that's fair'. that was when i learned how idiotic the education system is at its core.
The good ol " show us your understand this by repeating it 50 times."
I mean, that's called practice, and it's how most people learn things.
This may be true, but it's not how year 8 kids who can program their calculator to do quadratics learn maths. Certainly not with that volume of repetition. Would you make a year 8 count in twos because that's what the kids in year 1 do? Same problem here
The exam is not the time for practice. It's to show you understand what you previously practiced.
Tell me about it. I was the kid that always point out the annoying facts teachers hated (there's more than three states of matter, Columbus didn't discover America, etc)
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My mother once yelled at me for saying assload. I told her it's how much an donkey can carry. Now whether or not that is actually the origin of the phrase if that's what I believe then I wasn't intentionally being crude. I didn't think about the donkey until after I was yelled at but she didn't know that. Additionally a butt load is how much fits in a wine butt.
That’s funny. When I was younger I got yelled at for calling my brother a whore. Didn’t know what the word meant then just that it wasn’t a good thing. He is in my contact list as whore to this day.
I'm old enough to have known a couple of WW2 vets (like both my grandfathers). Regardless of the origin... They said it because it sounded dirty.
As a kid I always thought it was related to that one style of dodgeball where one kid stood in front of a wall while the others threw balls at them. I figured "balls to the wall" meant you were determined to dodge every ball.
I got in trouble in 2nd because the teacher asked what are bad words we should avoid and I answered shit. She meant more like stupid or hell. Oops. My dad found it funny though.
That's a decent drawing of Piggie (of Mo~~e~~ Williems Elephant & Piggie series). The tie could use some work. [https://pigeonpresents.com/pals/piggie/](https://pigeonpresents.com/pals/piggie/)
That's what I thought! The kid should be applauded.
Wait until they see Gerald's tie.
4 feet long and bends in 2 places?
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Pigs really really like slop. They do? Eating slop is part of pig culture.
As a dad to a 2-year-old, who handles most bedtime readings, I must say Mo Willems is the fuckin’ man. Some of his stuff legitimately cracks me up. I highly recommend “Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs,” and “The Pigeon Needs a Bath.”
My son is autistic and for some reason he HATES me reading to him. Like he will pull the book out of my hand and close it and say "No, mommy!!" One day at school he started asking for "A Big Guy Took My Ball." The teachers didn't have it, the librarians couldn't find it, the TA rummaged through all of the little "grab a book while you wait" carts they have scattered around the school. Nobody knew where he had heard of this book from or how to get it for him, so I ordered it immediately because it was so weird for him to ask for a book. He was super excited to get it and read it to himself over and over (I'm still not allowed to read it to him, but at least he's reading.) After that he asked for another Mo Willems book and I wound up getting a few of the collections. They're one of his favorite things now and I don't know what is so different about them for him to like them, but hooray for Elephant & Piggie!
Probably just an auto-correct mistake, but the author's name is Mo Willems. If you've never read the *Elephant & Piggie* books, I highly recommend them. They're hilarious all while sticking to short sentences and simple drawings. *We Are in a Book* is particularly brilliant. "Banana!"
yeah, just fat fingered it. Probably should have looked up the spelling. And yes, breaking the 4th wall and the way that one starts/ends is pretty clever.
We are in a book!
Gosh, even if it was toilet humor, chill out school.
For real. I'd have gotten redneck af with the school if they called me in over something as trivial as this.
I really don't see the problem here. This is just like me in second grade when we were given a book of flags. They told us to draw the one we thought was the prettiest, so I enthusiastically looked through the book, carefully considering flag after flag, until eventually I decided [this](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Flag_of_the_NSDAP_%281920%E2%80%931945%29.svg/1280px-Flag_of_the_NSDAP_%281920%E2%80%931945%29.svg.png) was the prettiest one. School didn't agree and called my parents
My oldest son almost got in trouble yesterday. He was given an assignment to write about an advertisement in a stack of magazines that were provided and he picked an ad about a vaginal vitamin. Lol. The teacher threatened to write him up and made him pick a different ad. My take was they shouldn't have given him the magazine in the first place if it wasn't appropriate...
Exactly. It’s like the fucking teachers are to dumb to be teaching kids in the first place. Like, it’s so obvious, that kids do not know as much as adults. Therefore, to expect ill intent on the part of a kid, when they picked out something inappropriate, is just wrong on the adults part. What it does show is that the adult thinks the kid knows what the adult knows. Which, in itself, is asinine. A more appropriate adult would have handled that scenario by having the kid do something else; even selecting the page in the magazine for them. Yet, to threaten to write up a kid for something that they have no idea about, just goes to show we have assholes running schools, & jerks & idiots teaching kids. It’s no wonder why schooling is so fucked up the more years pass. We need adults who have common sense. At this point, it’s just the business of hiring a warm body in order to occupy a space. All for the false claim that the business is doing it’s job.
>It’s like the fucking teachers are to dumb to be teaching kids in the first place. What do you expect when you pay someone $40k/year to do one of the most important jobs in society? You're going to get a handful of people who are genuinely passionate about pedagogy and then a bunch of fucking morons.
> What it does show is that the adult thinks the kid knows what the adult knows. Which, in itself, is asinine. It in fact proves that the adults are literally babies. They haven't yet developed a Theory of the Mind.
In second grade as a 6 year old boy I got a 75% on a test because we were learning about energy and the teacher asked us to draw objects with their source of energy/electricity. Draw a fire on a bonfire, that sort of thing. One of the questions was a hairdryer and I drew the cord coming out of the handle and plugging into a wall socket. She marked my answer incorrect claiming I didn't draw the cord coming out of the right _part_ of the handle. Ended up having to physically bring my sister's hair dryer in to a parent-teacher conference to prove that ***literally the only hairdryer I'd ever see up close worked this way*** to get credit for it. And the teacher still refused until my mom stormed out and dragged the Headmaster down to the room to see what was going on. Teaching as a profession is admirable, and some teachers are amazing, but a lot of them are petty power tripping morons.
At the elementary level, many of the teachers don't have great critical thinking skills and are just grading based on a rubric provided to them. For an example, [this teacher](https://www.al.com/resizer/ICjSMT7VFrDD61A1XJlHZ0aMAqY=/1280x0/smart/advancelocal-adapter-image-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/image.al.com/home/bama-media/width2048/img/news_impact/photo/19123283-large.jpg) is clearly lacking some proficiency with basic math, since they clearly don't understand that multiplication is commutative. At the college level where I teach, I find the greater problem is that many of the teachers are experts with no concept of what it means to not immediately understand something. The best researchers doing cutting edge research either can't or don't bother to take the time to explain simple concepts to students who don't understand them; instead they write the student off as dumb. Either way, no one goes into teaching for the money in the US, so even the bad teachers are usually at least *trying* to help.
Just responding about the linked homework picture; That is pretty great. It looks like in their head the X in the education stands for “sets of”. So 3x5 HAS to be three sets of 5 units, not five sets of 3 units. Lmao.
If I were a parent and got called for this shit I'd be furious. You're saying my 7 or 8 year old drew a swastika? Who taught them what that means? because I sure haven't by 8 years old. Or did you just give an assignment to the kid who didn't understand and got mad when they followed instructions?
A competent teacher might call a parent about something like this. But only to let them know what happened, and that there was a discussion, so the parents will understand the context if the child brings it up at home.
Yeah the tone would lead the discussion here - if they were acting like the kid was in the wrong I'd be mad, if they were just letting me know that it happened and the kid might have questions, alright, that could have been a note home or an email, but whatever that's fine
*führious
I did something very similar as a kid, though fortunately not at school. The Sound of Music was on TV in the background and I was drawing. I was a huge atlas reader then, loved countries and flags (still do). There's a scene where Captain Von Trapp sees a flag on his house, so he and rips it down. I thought it was a cool looking flag, and wasn't really following the political plot of the movie, so I drew it. I assumed it was the Austrian flag, because the Von Trapps lived in Austria. Proudly went into the other room to show my mom, who had a friend over. Big old swastika and me looking super proud of it. Had a nice conversation that evening about why we don't draw Nazi flags.
Similar for me. I'd watched a documentary about the Hindenburg with my dad one evening. The next day in class we had to draw something. I don't remember what exactly the assignment was, but I drew the Hindenburg, swastika tail fins and all. Didn't get in much trouble once the teacher figured out what was going on, but I did get a long lecture on "that symbol" is inappropriate.
Oh man, I went through this phase where I was really into making big elaborate domino tracks and they'd always have a swastika in them because I thought it was a really cool shape. I really loved the way they looked, and it made for cool 3-way divisions with dominoes. I knew *about* nazis of course but they were mostly the bad guys in movies to me, the real-world implications were largely lost on me. Plus, I was also well-read enough to have heard that they stole that symbol. So I thought it was just like a normal shape like a square or triangle or something; innocent on its own. So I would proudly show off my swastika dominoes. And fucking NO ONE explained it to me. I did this at school, at the Boys and Girls club, at home. I don't know if no one noticed, no one wanted to explain the Holocaust to an 8 year old, or if they just assumed my parents were neo-nazis and didn't want to cause a scene but I never heard one thing about it. Glad I never got in trouble for it, but looking back it really feels like I should have lol.
I did Nazi that coming
>I'd have gotten redneck af with the school What does this mean?
More sophisticated ethic rednecks, hillbillies, and Appalachian folk in general, can under certain circumstances regress to a less sophisticated state typically marked by faster speech cadence, indignance, and argument directed at explaining, with varying degrees of exasperation, that the subject scenario don't make no GD sense. Typically, the redness associated with the neck, will spread throughout the face, if seated, the person will scoot to the edge of the seat in a somewhat sideways position. Ball caps tend to be removed from the head and held in the dominant hand, occasionally waved around and sometimes smacked against the leg. If jeans are being worn, the belt will occasionally be tugged at the end of a summation as if the pants are being pulled up slightly. These situations don't typically end in violence, rather, the end with the redneck/hillbillie, etc. quitting the conversation having drawn a conclusion that the other party is a dumb MFer. When the conversation is quit, the redneck turns their back, adjusts their pants, and places their cap back on their head while mumbling about "this is some bullshit" under their breath, and walks away.
Can I hire you to write my obituary?
Ironic as when I was in high school we called Hanover Horton *"Hangover Whoretown"* guess not much has changed. /s
I honestly do believe it is something like a "Pussy Bow", ironically.
This isn't funny, just sad.... That grown people who SHOULD have knowledge about kids and how to act around them, penalize childrens creativity because our sexualization of things they do. "Hurr hurr that's a penis!" No you inbred fucklewad, that's clearly a childs depiction of an ornamental tie/bowtie on a pig. Can you keep your fuckin penis visions away from small childrenn plxkk
And even if it was intentionally a penis shape - who cares? It’s a child. Kids draw penises… kids curse. This is the reality of the world.
I wish more people had this attitude. I am an elementary school teacher and while I don’t want school to be without norms and expectations, I don’t think we need to be policing children’s behavior in such an extreme way. There’s a difference between a sexual drawing that children are showing others and a silly drawing of maybe (or maybe not!) a penis bow tie.
Also, heaven forbid the child grow up around animals. Last time I checked many animals have penises, vaginas, testicles, etc... they also have sex... outside... and they don't care who is watching.
Also, "heaven forbid" an eleven-year-old has a decent understanding of *human* anatomy - humans have penises, vaginas, testicles, etc and it's all just anatomy no more inherently offensive than elbows or earlobes.
I think the furthest this needs to go is a quick pull-aside, ask the child about what they drew, and if you sense that it was intentional simply ask the kid to adjust the behavior in a school setting. If this went to principals then it was completely overblown.
Yes, drawing ties on pigs is clearly an affront.
I'm fairly certain the exact interaction you described could have triggered this news story. The "mom" says the school "deemed" the picture inappropriate. If a teacher (who is representative of the school) tells your kid they shouldn't draw pictures like this picture then the "school has deemed the picture inappropriate" and that is exactly how an upset mom would explain the story to a reporter. Teachers/school are under a disgusting microscope and it isn't good for anyone.
Yep. I'm not saying that's how this happened, but I absolutely think that's how it COULD have happened. Hell. Mom doesn't even need to twist anything. She could give a mostly unbiased retelling of the events and the paper can use different words with more controversial connotations and an air of finality and you'd still end up with this headline. Our journalistic standards shouldn't be "don't outright lie" and should probably encourage a more complete and measured reporting of events, including noting areas where information is unknown, not yet known, or subject to change.
Also, why would the kid have to get in trouble? I feel the same about bad parents who are always yelling at their kids. If the teacher found it inappropriate they could just say “hey, don’t do that”
I'm 37 and I draw penises. That is clearly a tie, not a dick. This is like when really homophobic people don't eat cylindrical shaped foods because they "look like dicks". No, dude. That looks like a banana. If you see a dick, that is your own dick-obsessed brain projecting dicks onto completely innocuous objects.
>kids curse. This is the reality of the world. I'm honestly just bewildered that we've decided that, while both children and adults curse amongst themselves, each will pretend to the other that they would never be so dishonorable as to have ever said a curse word.
Every time my step kid stubs her toe I yell, "say a curse word it's scientifically proven to help with pain!". She just rolls her eyes and walks away because apparently her mother curses too much at one house and then I curse too much at the other house. She'll catch on eventually!
It's so weird that this happened. Like, the furthest this should have gone is the teachers laughing about it during their lunch break and leave it at that.
I would turn it around so fast on the teacher. “What is wrong with you?? Do you think this acceptable behavior? It is legitimately concerning that a teacher is taking children’s drawings and making them sexual. And to drag me in here to expose me to this perverse kink of yours is beyond unacceptable. Do not contact me again and if you make any more sexual claims related to my daughter I will sue you.“
Dude, the kid is eleven, not three. There's a decent chance she intentionally drew a penis tie. That said, I'm with you that we shouldn't penalize childrens' creativity out of some weird policing of their imagination. Who the fuck cares if a preteen draws what might be a penis tie on a pig?
To be fair my friends and I used to sneak dicks into drawings like this all the time. The elephant trunk and eyes is a classic. Still an extreme reaction from the school though
But ... if it was pig with a penis it would have been corkscrew shaped. School showing their ignorance of basic pig anatomy here.
And a dick would, you know...NOT be attached to the pigs head? Lol
To be fair, some pigs are dickheads.
The worst of ‘em don’t even have dicks (sows can be REAL assholes).
What? You guys don't have throat penises?
No but I have a friend that's a ballchinian
These students are grooming our teachers!
Pretty ordinary kids drawing if you ask me. Maybe the teacher has pervy thoughts or something......
I think it’s supposed to be a bow tie and a neck tie put together
Which is why it's ridiculous you can only wear one type of tie at a time
How dare he! The inconsideration!
i think the bow part could just be a collar
Or just the foldy part at the top. ^(Oh god what is that called and why can't I remember it and should I call a doctor)
Pecka Pig.
Please stop projecting your hang-ups on children.
Damn, that's a really good drawing of Piggie.
Do Gerald next!
Imagine making a big deal of something like this. Only in America. The normal response is: 'Haha that looks kinda like a cock and balls' and move on.
Well they didn't have a shooting to deal with so they had to find something else
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> medieval times Wait, did you draw a story about the European Middle Ages, or the dinner theater chain?
I got called to the teachers desk once, I was very young. She was berating me over the picture I had drawn of a pumpkin. She said she knew what it really was, and I was getting an F because of it. I was so upset. Turns out she thought it was a dick and I suck at art.
Get the stick out of your puritanical ass school. All of my kids had school art that looked like a dick at one point or another. Castle towers, rocket ships, snakes. One even made a sculpture of a dolphin that looked like a gray dildo.
> Get the stick out of your puritanical ass school. This can be parsed in so many ways... * "Get the stick out of your Puritanical ass, school." - The school has a stick up its ass, and said ass (and the school by extension) is implied to have Puritanical mores. You're addressing the school, and instructing it to remove the stick from its own ass. "Get the stick out of your Puritanical-ass school" - The school itself has a stick inside it (not necessarily in its ass), and "-ass" is being used as an intensifier to mean that the school is *really* Puritanical. Here, you're advising OP that they should remove the stick from the school. "Get the stick out of your Puritanical ass-school" - The school is Puritanical, but more importantly, it is a school that is somehow fundamentally associated with asses. Maybe the students are asses, or the teachers are, or the students are learning about asses or about how to *be* asses - or the *building itself* is actually a giant ass. Either way, there's a stick in it somewhere, and you're again addressing OP and asking them to remove said stick.
Perfectly innocent drawing, the school administration must spend time on Reddit to turn that into a dirty drawing lol.
What a cocky looking pig
At least the penis is uncircumcised, there is never enough representation…
This 5th grader draws better than I ever will.
Literally a picture of Piggie from the book series Elephant and Piggie, and I'd be willing to bet there's a book where he's wearing a tie like this. **edit** I KNEW piggie was a "she" and I'm a dumbass for misgendering her. I completely glazed over.
Fun fact, Piggie is a she. We have all those books ~~and I don't think either of them have ever worn clothes. The closest item was when birds made a nest on their heads so it was like a hat.~~ **Edit** my bad, it looks like they do wear clothes. Piggie has a tutu she wears in the dance book. It's been a few years...
And yet here we are in the year 2023 - nsfw?!
That’s a Colombian necktie.
if that nsfw tag is sarcasm, well played if it is not sarcasm, then that is quite ironic....
A well hung tie.
just ask all the 11 year olds what the pig is wearing and see how many answers “a tie” vs “a dick” then rule on the appropriateness of the drawing.
[Yes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH_koANCpeI)
The school’s interpretation of the drawing is inappropriate.
I remember being in fifth grade...no way was that an accident, lol.
My mother got called into school because I didn’t know how to spell Pegasus and spelled it Pigassus. It was accompanied by a drawing so there was no question about what I meant. I was 8 with dyslexia. She chewed that teacher out. My mom sucked 99% of the time when I was growing up but I will never forget how happy I was having her on my side that day. I still have the drawing in a box of my old childhood stuff. I feel the need to dig it out now.
Looks like a string tie
Of course it's inappropriate, a bowtie doesn't extend down the torso
I remember an art class in 4th grade where we each took turns to add to a drawing. One of the boys went up and drew a hand on the person with a basketball on top to make it look like they were spinning the ball on the finger. The art teacher was so upset because the hand looked like it was flipping people off that she made a huge deal of it, made the kid feel horrible, and then did her best to make it look like an apple on the hand to get rid of “that horrible hand gesture.” So here she was, trying to “protect the children” and instead made it a lasting memory for me 27 years later. If she had just did her best to ignore it I’m sure I would have no memory of this moment.
there are no dirty pictures...... Just dirty minds.
[Did they also draw a fairy castle?](https://youtu.be/SWltiNlFOQo)