[pubmom]

Wouldn't you know he was perfect?

Last week he had issues with cutting out paper shapes as instructed, and had an outburst. When his teacher tried to speak to him, he turned his face away from her and refused to work.His fit carried over into his kindergarten classroom. If he were at home and pulled that, my little red spatula would come out and convince him to cooperate.

[lodwick]

Is this a government school?

It sounds very controlled to me - I thought art was in the mind of the artist and whatever they dreamed it to be.

It's been a half a century ago, but I do not recall doing cutout thingies in class - ours was drawing and coloring, which I loved to do. Didn't the girls do the dollie cutouts?

I'm with the kid on this one - he doesn't want to be sissified as instructed. Give the guy some crayons and lotsa paper. mytwocents. ;-)