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Grading with Red Ink is too Stressful for Kids
While we’re on the subject of whacky school stories (see the previous Berkeley entry), check out this one:
Of all the things that can make a person see red, school principal Gail Karwoski was not expecting parents to get huffy about, well, seeing red. At Daniels Farm Elementary School in Trumbull, Conn., Karwoski’s teachers grade papers by giving examples of better answers for those students who make mistakes. But that approach meant the kids often found their work covered in red, the color that teachers long have used to grade work.
Parents objected. Red writing, they said, was “stressful.”
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He has instructed his teachers to grade with colors featuring more “pleasant-feeling tones” so that their instructional messages do not come across as derogatory or demeaning.
http://myopiczeal.blogsome.com/2005/04/04/grading-with-red-ink-is-too-stressful-for-kids/trackback/
ROFL. A friend has just been told his son can no longer take peanut butter sandwiches to school. They are now banned for fear the children might swap sandwiches with a child with a nut allergy.
Alternatively they could just hire enough lunchtime staff to stop swapsies (we’re talking about a junior school with about 200 pupils here) or insist that children with allergies are kept away from the mainstream if they’re too stupid to be selective, but no, why not just make a sweeping decision that puts the onus on the parents and bans the only source of protein that won’t grow bacteri if it’s not refrigerated all morning.
Comment by Cheryl — April 4, 2005 @ 8:00 am
How to raise an axe murderer
Step 24: instill the concept that even the slightest offense, even if imaginary, must be dealt with by extreme measures….
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