Red Ink Taboo?

[Sean]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=519&e=7&u=/ap/20050403/ap_on_re_us/no_more_red

The things parents find to complain about now a days will never cease to amaze me. I think the coddling of the youth is beginning to get a bit out of control.

[Jazuela]

Agreed with Tijay.

I read the article..it says they're changing the colors to what the kids will respond to.

Well..obviously they responded BIG-TIME to red, which means it was effective. So why would they change it? Red did EXACTLY what it was intended to do: stand out and be noticed.

It was the "mark of the teacher" - the authorative voice in print. So now teachers are gonna be pals, helping their younger buddies? Screw that. Teachers need to BE teachers, complete with their red ink.

Next thing you know, the kids will be saying "We feel recess is more important than math, because it encourages socialization while math produces introspection. We need to ditch math entirely and focus on social interaction through recess" and there goes math out the door.

Way to go, Board of Ed.

[AnticorRifling]

This is why I'm going to beat my kids.

[Wezas]

People need to stop looking at the color of the ink and start reading what the teacher is writing.

If your kid doesn't fuck anything up, no red ink. Strive for that, fuckwad parents.

[Apotheosis]

some parents are just never able to accept that their children are slow

[Wezas]

I always heard growing up that red ink was used because it had the intention to hurt/be painful (signifying blood in some cases).

I found it amusing.

[Jazuela]

Not true Wezas. My writing papers got red-inked all over the place, and almost all of those comments were positive. "Good job!" "Excellent point here!" "Perfect spelling!" "You understood the topic well."

On occasion I'd get red-inked for a misspelled word, or a misplaced comma, or a comment requesting me to elaborate on a point I made in a rough draft, for the final presentation. The red stood out so that there was no way I could possibly miss it. I learned more from those red comments than I would have with some subtle pretty color.

[HarmNone]

That's plain silly. I imagine even the kids think it's silly. :rolleyes:

[Latrinsorm]

At Daniels Farm Elementary School in Trumbull, Conn., I know kids who went to that school. All the cool kids went to Middlebrook, of course, but that's a different story.