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What age is your DD? she's clearly been told multiple times not to do this , do you and her think rules don't apply to her and her creativity?

Was your daughter upset?

For the exam board I mark for you have to flag any doodles that may be offensive and there is the warnings that they can lose their award depending on what they have done. This isn't a doodle I would have passed on to my supervisors but some might.
As it happens, I had a smiley face match stick man smoking a huge joint drawn years ago. Passed that one on as it was clearly a joint but my supervisor found it funny and didn't take it further.
Just your luck of the draw perhaps.

Yes. I believe a fully functioning education system would follow each individual child’s passion. It might seem airy fairy but great world achievements were all accomplished by people who pushed ahead despite society telling them they were crazy. And sorry but this education system isn’t currently pumping out geniuses left, right and centre is it? So why not consider something different?

Thank you. I work in teaching and things like this taught me, never to judge and always believe in your kids and children that you teach, each one is important.

I'm a secondary English teacher and this wouldn't bother me in a test tbh. Doodling in exercise books does irritate me though, so I give scrap paper to those that like to be doing something with their hands while listening. I'd just want to assess her knowledge and understanding. I definitely wouldn't deduct marks. I'm also a GCSE examiner and this wouldn't affect her marks in an exam at all.

I used to doodle at the end of exams. It is harmless. I know lots of kids for whom drawing is soothing. It stops them from rocking on chairs or biting nails or tapping the pencil. I have never known this not to be allowed. Anxiety etc is heightened in exam conditions.

Good luck with her GCSEs then.

She's been told repeatedly, therefore she effectively chose to piss away those marks. Your annoyance at the teacher is totally misplaced, but it would explain why your daughter continues to be defiant.

Had one teacher call me in, middle daughter at time was six, she’d drawn an uncanny likeness of her teacher, who surprisingly resembled Miss Piggy, she’d also drawn a hand with a knife and blood dripping from it, teacher was shocked and assumed I’d be shocked and punish her

If she had done that these days a ‘smug teacher’ would have been the least of your worries. You’d have been explaining yourself to the safeguarding lead about why your six year old is drawing such violent pictures along with offensive portraits of her teacher…

Genuine question... When your daughter does something at home that you have asked her, repeatedly, not to do, and she continues to do it, are there any consequences or sanctions? If not, you are raising a child who will struggle to cope with the real world where there are many rules that may not suit her. If you do impose consequences, why do you think they shouldn't be imposed at school for repeated violations? Or is it simply because she is so wonderfully "arty" and therefore a free spirit, who rules shouldn't apply to when it comes to expression of her "art"?

I personally don't think it's about the doodling, it's about the simple lack of respect of the teacher's rules. If she knows she shouldn't do it but still does, then she has to accept whatever sanctions the teacher chooses to apply. It's disrespectful and you should be backing the teacher.

That doesn’t make sense. There are many hugely successful very very rich educated people who are (or were) socially lacking. It’s what usually makes them very rich (Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, etc).

I think the best thing is for her not to doodle at the expense of exam results but draw in her own time. There’s no point in her sabotaging her results for the sake of a doodle.

I've never heard of marks being deducted for this in exams that "matter" (A'levels. uni, professional exams, etc.) so I don't really get the "it's best she learns now" type of responses.

Pettiness like this from teachers can really put students off a subject, or even school altogether.

I like her artistic flair.
Had one teacher call me in, middle daughter at time was six, she’d drawn an uncanny likeness of her teacher, who surprisingly resembled Miss Piggy, she’d also drawn a hand with a knife and blood dripping from it, teacher was shocked and assumed I’d be shocked and punish her, same teacher had smugly said she was in the bottom bottom third in class, I’d wanted to take her out of school, hubby talked me out of it, following year she had a fantastic teacher, who brought in her own art supplies and my daughter was in the top of class and continued to excel. She had artworks commissioned from the age of 14 and is now a Director to a Marketing Company.
Finally she didn’t have a predilection to violence, she has always been an exceptionally gentle kind soul.

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Honestly it's best she learns this now than in exams that matter.

Rather than trying to work on staff trying to accommodate her, how about working on getting your DD to stop?
There are plenty of opportunities for her to be arty, the back of an exam paper is not the time.

That thing is hideous.