Mum slams school for calling 11-year-old’s pig drawing ‘inappropriate’

A mum has slammed her 11-year-old daughter’s school for saying her drawing of a cartoon pig was “inappropriate”.

An American mum has slammed her 11-year-old daughter’s school for saying her drawing of a cartoon pig was “inappropriate”.

As reported by The Sun, teachers accused the youngster of drawing male genitalia on a pig, her mother, Sierra Carter, claimed in a TikTokvideo.

However, the “inappropriate” sketch was done on the pig’s neck because it was supposed to be a bow tie.

A young boy in the Year 6 class pointed out that the accessory resembled something totally different.

This prompted the teacher to remove Ms Carter’s daughter’s artwork from her and report it to the headmaster.

Ms Carter, from Michigan, US, took to TikTok to vent about the alleged incident and asks others what their thoughts on the drawing were.

The school claimed that the sketch of the pig was 'inappropriate'. Picture: TikTok

“Her teacher told me that my daughter had drawn something inappropriate in art class,” she said, explaining the situation.

“And that a little boy had come up to her and made her aware that he thought my daughter drew ‘boy parts’ on her pig project.

“So, she went over and asked my daughter for all of her papers, to which my daughter kind of nervously laughed.”

According to Ms Carter, the teacher had heard the young girl telling other kids in her class to “shh”.

“My daughter told the teacher right away that she drew a bow tie,” she continued.

“The teacher proceeded to take all of her papers form her and then she said she had to give my daughter’s project to the vice principal at the school to handle.”

A few days later, Ms Carter rocked up to the school and sat down with the teacher in question and a social worker.

Once handed the art project, the mum couldn’t believe the drawing that had caused so much commotion.

“I literally slammed my hand down on the table. I said, ‘To be completely frank with you, I am p*ssed’,” she recalled.

“Like, why are we sitting here right now and why was there a big deal made out of this?

“It’s a f***ing bow tie.”

The 11-year-old's furious mother, Sierra Carter, took to social media. Picture: TikTok

The teacher and social worker alleged to Ms Carter that the school’s headmaster told them to “write her up” as soon as he saw the drawing.

The headmaster was then brought into the meeting, who maintained that the drawing was not of a bow tie.

His reasoning was: “A bow tie is a bow.”

“He proceeds to tell me that this time he won’t give my daughter a write up,” Ms Carter said.

“But he was gonna put her artwork into a folder in case any future instances come up where she’s inappropriate.

“My daughter has never been inappropriate, she has never even talked about ‘boy parts’ or ‘girl parts’.”

The story has gone viral since Ms Carter shared it on TikTok, with her calling “the support along this journey … profound”.

She wants to make sure something similar never happens again and that the school remove any strikes against her daughter’s name.

This article originally appeared on The Sun and was reproduced with permission