Was the

She's really not that arty OP.
Currently exam marking and any defaced or doodled on papers have to be flagged. Would you take the chance for your DD to fail an exam because you think she should be allowed?

The OP posting the photo is still making me laugh.

It's like she's thinking "But I'm so prhaaad of little Lily-Mae cos it's art innnit?"

Deary me, you are still excusing her!

Changed days from my time at school. I wouldn't have dared show my parents that paper. I would have been in so much trouble for disrespecting the teacher, and letting them down. I would also have had my pocket money withdrawn. O.P. I think you need to get your act together pretty sharpish. Does she realize that she could have had her paper voided? The teacher was doing her a favour. Your child is copying your entitled attitude.

Teachers comment was "minus 5 marks for graffiti at the back. I have told you many times its not on."
i mean, she knew not to do it. Why could she not stop herself from defacing the paper?

I'd have docked her 10%

to deface an exam paper would not be something I would dream of doing. She had been told too and she should have been spending her time checking her paper not doodling. if she finished early maybe she had not have done the paper completely or to the bests of her ability

Disobedience, obvs

What's a reasonable punishment for prolonged, intentional obedience then, OP?

It's always been the case not to deface an exam paper with scribbles or doodles.

Your daughter has no excuse as she has been specifically told not to do it.

She was lucky the paper wasn't marked VOID as I would have done.

In that case I’d suggest asking for scrap paper to doodle on.

She was warned repeatedly. She didn’t give a toss. She’s paying the price. Suck it up.

When my DS1 was given a detention in Year 7 for forgetting his lab coat he was furious. I shrugged, signed the slip and passed it back to him. He didn’t forget again. Lesson learned.
Support the school, and use this opportunity to lead by showing respect. It will benefit her.

Because she would lose marks on a GCSE exam, so it’s not a good habit to get in to.

It’s nothing to do with teachers trying to be controlling. It’s about educating pupils.
Have you been watching too many Pink Floyd videos?!!

OP I think you’re being deliberately obtuse.

Your daughter has been told not to doodle. If she did that on an external exam she would lose marks for it, so whatever the teacher’s personal opinions may be, she has to train your daughter to stop doing it. The teacher has told your daughter this on several occasions, but evidently your daughter has taken no notice at all. So the teacher has to come up with another way of teaching your daughter not to doodle on test papers. Your daughter is obviously bright and hardworking, so the teacher has decided that deducting marks may have an impact.

What would you suggest, if you were the teacher? Because simply telling her not to do it hasn’t worked.

What do you feel would have been an appropriate punishment then?

She doodled when told many times not to so had 5 marks deducted. I can’t see how else you’d reasonably punish that.

You're making a big deal out of nothing to be honest.

I think you must mean test or practice papers then. Not an exam. But that's by-the-by really.

how old is DD?

she needs to learn (sharpish) that in life there are rules & they apply to everyone, yep including her.

if you are told to do/not do something like draw on the back of test papers then you don't bloody do it unless you want marks deducted. She might think it's a stupid rule, but it's a rule none the less.

YOU need to teach her to follow the rules if she's going to do well in external exams. Not support her whinging!

if she bright, it shouldn't be too difficult to follow no drawing on the back of papers.

IF she's ND she needs to see what she IS allowed to do once she's finished.preferably she needs to be taught to spend the time checking her work.

Tough shit though isn't it? Neither of you get to chose the consequence here.

If it makes her start doing as she's told then it's a win.

I just feel that it's not a huge deal either way. She was told not to doodle - she doodled - she got told off/ penalised for doodling. Not even a huge penalty unless it dropped her below a qualifying mark for something (then that would be tight).

I understand her being upset but in my house that would be an 'oh dear, well you won't do it again will you'. Life is so much about following the brief. He has just taught her something she needs to know!

But if it stops her from defacing exam papers in future where there are higher consequences than just losing 5% (such as in GCSEs when it can literally mean the difference between passing and failing if you mark the wrong parts of the paper) then surely it's the best kind of punishment?

The teacher is a prick. Using her control against your child. So what if she doodles when she's bored? She's obviously bright if she got 96%. Can't see the problem.
I had a teacher like this. Silly cow.

Oh ffs, yet another one of these threads.

OP: AIBU?

Everyone else: YES

OP: But, but ...

I marked GCSE papers for a few years. We had to send on defaced papers to our team leaders and they eventually were addressed with the school and sometimes with the candidate. It wasn't treated as unimportant.