Kids draw weird s–t. 

And sometimes we, as their loving, concerned parents, can read too much into it.

So it only makes sense that teachers, who know our little ones less than we do – can do the same.

That’s what happened to one man, whose son’s teacher called him and his wife in for an “emergency meeting” about a drawing he did in class recently.

Taking to Facebook, the man wrote: “Our six-year-old handed us a note. His teacher had called my wife and I in for an emergency meeting. We asked our son if he had any idea why and he said, ‘She didn’t like a drawing I did’.”

“We went in the next day and his teacher pulled out the drawing and said, ‘I asked him to draw his family and he drew this, would you mind explaining?'”

This was the drawing:

The mom replied that there was nothing to explain because it was just a drawing of their family on vacation. 

“We were snorkeling off the Bahamas.”

Conversations erupted in teachers’ groups and forums where thousands weighed in about how the teacher handled this situation. 

“This is bloody hysteria,” one person remarked. “Seriously, who needs that drama.”

“Emergency meeting over this? I know it’s not the best drawing but I think it’s pretty clear…” someone else wrote. 

“What kind of teacher was this?” another asked. “Children are innocent… they take pleasure from innocent drawings.

“Of course, there are children with trauma and as a teacher, you learn to read these signals and the way they present their experiences in the classroom. They obviously did not know this child in their classroom… that is the biggest crime here.”

But then this mom said, “I would want to know, even if it’s a false alarm… it’s better safe than sorry.”

Then the teachers weighed in and they were equally divided amongst themselves. 

One said, “This is clearly snorkeling. If an admin or another parent saw this and we HADN’T told our admin about it, we’d be in big trouble. The teacher calling about this was just covering their ass so they didn’t get in trouble.”

A second echoed: “We have to notify the parents of every little thing that could be out of the ordinary. Because if it was a thing out of the ordinary, we’d get, ‘How come you didn’t do anything?!'”

On the other hand, someone claimed: “As a teacher, I would have asked the kid what it was. The kid would have said snorkeling. End of story.”

But then another teacher chimed in saying, “It doesn’t matter what they say, the kid is six. You have to perform due diligence.”

Then this person concluded, “The teacher did the right thing. These interventions have saved lives. Seriously.”