NationStates Jolt Archive

LOL! Human beings are so funny!

http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/04/04/no.more.red.ap/index.html

This drives me nuts! My colleagues are all into using green pens so they don't seem so harsh...but the green is hard to see if someone is writing in blue or black ink. Red is very distinctive. If you mark mean, it doesn't matter if you use hearts and PURPLE ink....cripes. Get over it people! :headbang: *clutches red pen and glares*

Boo hoo, the kids get stressed by red pen, imagine what going out into the real world's gonna do to them - they'll have kittens! Personally I think kids are not stressed enough - more fire and brimestone, it'll do them the world of good....

Eh? My Ethics teacher graded his essays with red ink. All of my essays scored above 90% and were covered with tons of red ink about a particular issue, comments on improvement or notes of approval. Kinda annoying to see it covered in red but it's the grade that stresses you, not the ink.

*me starts taking bets on how long until some dumb American lawyer sues a school for using red ink*
OH NOES! ITS TEH RED INK! PHEAR THE RED INK!!!!
:rolleyes:

It's more than that though. We talked about this in one of my classes. Kids have gotten so used to red = bad that they just tune it out. You can't critique anything with red pen because it just goes ignored. Any advice I give on a paper in red ink is going to go right by the student, and that's contrary to the entire point of teaching.

Next thing you know, schools aren't going to allow teachers to fail students, just because they haven't passed a test all year. Or, even better, "it doesn't matter what you put down as an answer, you tried, so you get an A."
Universities/Colleges are gonna tear these kids apart.

It's more than that though. We talked about this in one of my classes. Kids have gotten so used to red = bad that they just tune it out. You can't critique anything with red pen because it just goes ignored. Any advice I give on a paper in red ink is going to go right by the student, and that's contrary to the entire point of teaching.

Ah ha, so what your saying is that the teacher needs to place the work in front of the kid (marked in red ink) and then slap them in the face to get their attention (and also to say "Hey pupil in here you're ma bitch!") so they don't zone out....

*PM slowly wanders off into his own world....*

Ah ha, so what your saying is that the teacher needs to place the work in front of the kid (marked in red ink) and then slap them in the face to get their attention (and also to say "Hey pupil in here you're ma bitch!") so they don't zone out....

*PM slowly wanders off into his own world....*

No.

We had that problem in my country too. People wanted that the teachers stress out what is right, instead of underlining the bad with red. Naturaly I'm opposed to such matters, because in my case that would give the teachers less work.