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
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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)
messymessiah 11
That's his creative voice. As disturbing as it may have been, you should've let him continue. Unless these students were really young kids, but the fact that you said seminar tells me they were old enough. And if it was disturbing enough for you to stop him he must have some talent.
Solano2580 24
You people aren't thinking about it right, you just assume it was a simple censorship case, if someone were to do poems supporting rape, racism, the holocaust, etc I bet most of you would side with the teacher. Besides the school could have a rule that instructs all teachers to prevent students from reading those poems.
calucalay 13
If other kids agreed to read them then I highly doubt they are as bad as supporting racism, rape, or the holocaust.
Ichiya 29
The other students could have been more afraid of him than they were of the op. Maybe he threatened them somehow?
bobsanction 18
You should not be a teacher.
SookyLala 13
if it falls under the category of whats required by the class, then you deserved it, its your problem if you cant handle. however if that is not the case, disregard said comment.
Candied_person 13
******* emus
wikki1237 4
What did emus do to you
rec_chem 22
That's what you get for being an asshole. Where do you get off telling a student he can't participate because you don't approve of his topic? If you wanted to control the topic, you should have assigned one.
Ichiya 29
Maybe they did.
thepersonthere 3
charlie charlie, can i write several disturbing poems about you and present them to my class using my other classmates?
hardy24 9
You can't censor art
mccrightp 29
YDI for censoring your students and losing control of your class.
Timmip12 9
Wow, op. You're setting a limit to people's creativity? That's fantastic. Teach math if you want limits and guidelines, not creative writing. I hope that kid goes on to become a multimillionaire thriller writer.
Ichiya 29
It never said creative writing don't assume. Maybe they were supposed to write an analysis of business practices and instead the student wrote demon poems all the time.