Art Teachers of Reddit. What's your Draw Anything You Want story?

Not my story, but seems to fit here.

When I was in school to certify to become a teacher, we had a former principal as a professor

for one of our courses who was trying to illustrate how difficult it could be to manage parent

complaints and how to approach those situations with administration.

His example was how he had been called into a conference once with an angry mom and the elementary

school art teacher.

The mom was furious because the teacher had asked the children to close their eyes and draw

whatever came into their imagination.

His assumption was that a student had drawn something inappropriate.

Nope.

The mom was mad because summoning an image in one's mind was, quote,

witchcraft. So little Timmy, what did you draw in class today? I draw a rainbow. It's not drawing,

but I gave my high school kids a poetry assignment. They could write about anything that was

school appropriate and have one curse word that wasn't a slur or the F-bomb.

It had to include so much figurative language and whatnot.

Girl turns in, quote, Mrs. My Name is a B, a poem about how she's tired of writing poems

and that she's annoyed with me for assigning so many.

Includes our requirements.

I gave her a 96, a few errors, and the next poem she writes is,

quote, Mrs. My name is a cool bee about how she was sorry she was mean. I just remembered,

a poor little guy who drew a self-portrait. He drew with meticulous detail, and when it came

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