Today, I forbade a student in the writing seminar I instructed from continuing to present his disturbing poems about demons. He responded to this by convincing nearly every other student in the seminar to write and read out loud several of his poems. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my new creative writing teacher informed the class that we should consult him before writing anything "dark or disturbing." I only took the class because my therapist recommended that I join the class so I could freely express my darker thoughts without her help or a fear of being judged. FML
Today, my teacher read my story about a haunted house for a class assignment. She liked it very much and turned it in to the office to be sent into a state writing competition. An hour later, I was called to the office where the guidance counselor called my work "disturbing" and said I "need help". FML
Today, my boyfriend came across an old poem I wrote. I like to write horror stuff, but he was disturbed, called it “silly” and “sad”, and said he didn’t want to have a girlfriend who thinks about stuff like that. I'm now discouraged from becoming a writer. FML
Today, I was reading my students' Halloween stories I made them write for my creative writing class in high school. One of my students wrote about attacking me. She got my street address perfect and everything. FML
Today, one of my classmates got bullied and the whole class got to wrote 2000 words about that. FML
Today, I submitted a poem for my English class. I had fun writing it, so I wrote a second which was not nearly as good. My procrastinator of a friend never did his, so I gave him my extra poem. Mine was given a 75% while "his" received a 93%. FML
Today, a parent of one of the students I teach called me to complain that I was teaching her child "lies" and "fairytales". I was teaching them about the Holocaust. FML
Today, a student set me on fire while I was lecturing my class about proper lab safety. FML
Today, I gathered the courage to participate in a class discussion. My professor laughed at me. FML
Today, we wrote Valentine's Day poems in class. I wrote a very depressing poem about how I was rejected by all the girls I like and how it hurts to be alone. When it was read to the class, they laughed and told me it was hilarious. Even the teacher. FML
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MrConcise 35
Actually, I kinda agree with the student. **** your censorship, OP. Stephen King has written many masterpieces.
drayloon 50
Is it a creative writing course? You shouldn't be forbidding a student from writing about what they want then, as long as isn't criminal.
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Comments (124)
SquirrellyGirl 20
You should have let him present. He worked very hard on his poems and they were probably very good. Don't squash his creativity.
FilipinoDude9 16
Well, if the topic was way off from demons, then you did the right thing. If you let the students choose any topic, then he should've been allowed to read his.
randomcritic 14
How disturbing? What kind of content was involved? I need details.
StayFaithful 8
We all got demons
Amanduhhhhh 10
For those of you saying it's not school appropriate, OP said they were teaching a seminar which usually exists at the college level. So they should have more freedom and will not het sent "to the principal."
lildiva7620 18
you were in the wrong you should never tell someone who is proud of their poems that they're not allowed to share them
cainchild 4
a poetry teacher, promoting censorship?
sabrinaMA 7
That's what you get for being an a-hole. I would've done the same thing.
pedrorocks 7
You forbade it? What are you communist China?
hantu69 22
that student awesome ,