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Nooooooooo! Please tell me it's not true! On the heels of discussing child-centric/entitled kids/rude college students I received this story via an old friend from grad school. Its focus is on how teachers back away from red ink for grading because red is too "mean." They are instead using purple. [Note: I've used purple for years just because I like the damn color purple and wanted to be 'different' but tomorrow I'm ordering a box of red pens, damn it!]
Ok well instead of red ink, just use blood. :)
This pisses me off to no end. I'm an editor, and the only way anyone's going to get my red pen away from me is to pry it out of my cold, dead hands. I use red because it's incredibly easy to see. And I'm damn proud of the fact that I once made a coworker cry after editing one of his documents. Beware the power of my red pen! Tremble before me!
(OK, yeah, I'm a little delirious from lack of sleep - can'tcha tell? lol)
Oh, cry me a fucking river.
"Oooh, red pen is too mean! I'm going to have nightmares for the rest of my life because I'm retarded and don't know proper grammar!"
Don't we have bigger things to worry about?
Everybody's so damn sensitive these days. So you use purple ... eventually, somebody's going to be in therapy for seeing purple marks all over their papers because they're not smart enough to LEARN CORRECT GRAMMAR.
Then you deserve it.
Fear me and my red pen, bitches!
I mean, then THEY deserve it.
Hungry kitty needs some Meow Mix.
OK, so I switch to green. And then green takes on a new meaning (green = mean criticism. ooh.)
What? And then we switch from green pens?
Eventually we write our comments in invisible ink so students don't have to ever hear that their work could be improved and that they don't know it all yet?
I heard this when I was a classroom teacher in the mid/late 1990's, and ever since then, I haven't used red pen!!!! :) I don't think it really makes a difference, but it's fun for me to change up the colors.
you know, you should try orange or green! or maybe change colors for the season! :)
i know, pick a pink glitter pen!
My students submit everything electronically, so I buy colored pens for my own writing pleasure. (Such as when I am taking notes during faculty meetings on who is PISSING ME OFF).
BUT, I do control the color of my comments/editing because I use "track changes" in Word. I usually use blue because it is nice and bright and easy to see... especially things like, This is not a sentence, or, I have absolutely no idea what this means
I saw that article the other day & it took me over an hour to get my eyes unstuck from rolling them so hard...oh WAAH, what a bunch of pansy ass bullshit. Red is one of my more favorite colors, and I think it gets a bad rap...bring it on & PAINT it on thickly!
Love the new skin here & I'm very fond of bull terriers myself, my mom has one :-)
I went downstairs to the supply room earlier today and specifically requested a red pen after reading Cheeky Profs post. I spent the morning joyfully filling my students papers with red ink. unfortunately, none of them seemed to mind. I was hoping a few might flee class in terror. Ah well.
jwb
I've heard of that. I use purple pens because I love purple -- and purple folders, hanging files, sticky notes......
