Once when I was probably about 15 we had a student teacher who was doing training or something. She was like 20 years old or something, still in college. She would teach the class about once a week while the real teacher watched.
She had big dreams about how children were the future and how all our ideas were valid and creativity was applauded. She came up with a brilliant idea. Everyone do a report on anything you want, in any way you want, and share it with the class. No judgement. Be as silly or serious as you want. Write a paper, make a slide show, or even sing a song!
Well I'm not going to go into details about what my project was. Let's just say it was made of words I cut out of magazines and there were quotes from Ted Kaczynski, John Wayne Gacy, Charles Manson etc.
She was furious with my project and tried to get me in trouble. Luckily for me the real teacher told her basically, "You told the kids to make whatever they wanted with no rules and said everything was allowed with no judgement. You can't just let the kids do whatever they want. Since he did the work and there were no guidelines he technically did the assignment correctly."
I got an A from the real teacher.