Indeed. I see it in a lot of places. Mathematics education for example. “Show your work”. Doesn’t matter if you get the answer right because you did it in your head. If you don’t show your work, you fail. My ne is 10 and has been dealing with that shit for 3 years now and I dealt with it myself. The move to Common Core in US education just made school suck in a different way. Oh well.
Education, to me, should be about helping show how “who you are” is reflections of the past WITHOUT making you conform to the past. Otherwise, we just get stuck in the past and creativity that leads to new future creations is curtailed or destroyed.
Pissed me off when I was 8 and an art teacher told me, “I WAS DOING IT WRONG”. Pisses me off at 43, especially for the current generation because NOTHING HAS CHANGED.
Ne in 3rd grade last year came up upset because “he drew an owl wrong and wasnt trying”. according ot the teacher. HE REFUSED to draw ANYTHING for 8 months. I didn’t push anything, I just observed his remarks about “not being able to draw”.
Thankfully, he has a case of the 4th grade “fuck its” which is awesome to me. He sees the BS of teacher opinion more and more and he’s drawing again.