+542 Schools that punish students for going the extra mile or being 'the annoying know-it-all' are mostly responsible for destroying the creativity and originality in our generation. amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

There are schools that punish children for that?!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

No school punishes kids for that. This is dumb.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

That's what you think.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Care to provide an example of a school today that punishes its students for being creative and going the extra mile?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

MINE.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

really? How?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Every art class since the beginning of my time there, they make a model project which you have to replicate.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

K that's called disobeying the rules when you diverge from the model. The assignment is to REPLICATE.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Art is expression, amirite? So in order to express one's true self, you need to be creative, which is frowned upon at my school. It's the same way with writing and other forms of art.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You also have to learn in art. By replicating, you're learning and encompassing the original artists' style. That's like a teacher assigning me a paper on Hitler and I decide to be creative and do it on Stalin. It doesn't work that way.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Schools tend to hate originality or differentiation of any kind.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Ten points from Gryffindor for being an insufferable know-it-all, Ms. Granger.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

(The Half-Blood Pr...): That's just what I thought of!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/bohr_storyontests.html

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Ummm I'm pretty sure no schools punish children for "going the extra mile". Wouldn't most teachers like that? Wow.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

My history teacher refuses to answer my questions, saying each time, "You've raised your hand enough today, now put your hand down and shut up." Its rude. That's why I may change schools next year =)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Maybe the OP meant not the school itself, but the students? Otherwise this post does not make sense...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Back in middle school I was really nerdy and tried really hard to answer questions and raise my hand until my teachers told me to stop haha.... Now I'm a bit of a burnout

by Anonymous 13 years ago