A friend of mine's daughter was scolded by her teacher for drawing a purple cat instead of a normal colored one. 
Is the teacher right to do this?
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Is drawing a purple cat wrong?
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Realism in art? Ask Jackson Pollock about that. Or Picasso. Really, that teacher is stupid.
Unless it was an exercise in life sketching, which is a college level course, there's no reason to critizize creativity.
Unless it was an exercise in life sketching, which is a college level course, there's no reason to critizize creativity.
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Even if it was a life-drawing exercise, scolding kids for using different colors wont allow the child to learn.
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I'd like to know what "scolded" actually means.....A friend of mine's daughter was scolded by her teacher for drawing a purple cat instead of a normal colored one.
If the teacher just made a comment like "I've never seen a purple cat before" or made a joke I don't see the problem. What exactly did she say/do?
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A friend of mine's daughter was scolded by her teacher for drawing a purple cat instead of a normal colored one.
I assume that "scolded" means that she received a loud disapproving criticism of her choice of colors.
I think it would have been okay for the teacher to ask this daughter why she chose purple, and to suggest a few other colors that might look better, but to scold her is ridiculous. One might as well scold Van Gogh for this:
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TheManeki
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A friend of mine's daughter was scolded by her teacher for drawing a purple cat instead of a normal colored one.
It's sad when anything that differs from the norm -- even if it is not harmful in the least -- gets labeled as wrong, isn't it?
Perhaps the teacher needs to listen to the song "Flowers are Red" by Harry Chapin:
And she said...
Flowers are red young man
Green leaves are green
There's no need to see flowers any other way
Than they way they always have been seen
But the little boy said...
There are so many colors in the rainbow
So many colors in the morning sun
So many colors in the flower and I see every one
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Celticflower
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Purple cats -- why not?? Why stifle creativity in a young child? The only time I could think of a teacher being right in scolding a child for an odd colored animal would be in a science project where the cat was supposed to look like a "normal" cat.
A few years ago my daughter got laughed at by classmates for using origami to create a penguin for a project instead of drawing and coloring it. But she got high marks from the teacher due to her creativity.
A few years ago my daughter got laughed at by classmates for using origami to create a penguin for a project instead of drawing and coloring it. But she got high marks from the teacher due to her creativity.
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My thoughts exactly, and I'm inclined to not believe the OP at all. Seems a little too extremist for my tastes.
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Unless there were specific instructions that would have required the child use a different color, the teacher was wrong. And, even if there WERE specific instructions, it is possible the child is colorblind. My son is colorblind, and sometimes purple looks like brown to him.
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It's not at all wrong. I see nothing wrong with purple cats.
(I still bear a grudge because I hated colouring any of my pictures in, and the teachers always tried to make me. Grr.)
(I still bear a grudge because I hated colouring any of my pictures in, and the teachers always tried to make me. Grr.)
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The 1st grade teacher said, 'Don't you know cats aren't purple.' Then she pickup up the paper, crumpled it up, and threw it away.
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I'm sure weirder things than that have happend to you and people you know. The teacher taught my friend's daughter a few years ago when it happened. She taught me first grade around 20 years ago. She's still pretty mean.
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I'd be careful of taking "scolded" literally. You're news is second hand, and one originating with a young child.A friend of mine's daughter was scolded by her teacher for drawing a purple cat instead of a normal colored one.
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I'm finding this a little hard to believe, especally since it's now a 3rd or 4th hand account originating from a child.
But if true she was wrong, not for the "purple cat" comment so much as for crumpling up and throwing away something a child drew in class.
Was the child tramatized to the point of being withdrawn from the school? That seems to be the norm around here.
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If this is actually what happened, then the teacher was very wrong. That sort of thing would have made me cry my eyes out in first grade. Actually, if I took an art class now as an adult and my teacher crumpled and threw away something I drew I'd probably cry. It's just mean.
I actually do find it believable, some teachers (especially the ancient ones who have been teaching for decades) are just burned out and downright mean. They either lose their patience and social skills or never had them to begin with. I always groaned when I got a really old teacher in high school because they were almost always mean. :/
Perhaps her parents should talk to the teacher and get her side of the story, and they should definitely reinforce to their child that when you create a work of art you can put on the paper whatever is in your mind. Purple cats are okay, even if she's not allowed to color them that way in this teacher's class.
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