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Jimbo · 09-14-2004, 01:27 PM

Be curious to hear what people think about this. If anyone has heard it before. Apparently, nation-wide, there's a push on to have teachers stop correcting papers and assignments in red because red connotes a sense of violence, war, danger, fire, bloodshed. Instead they're promoting the use of pink and purple, because Johnny might be getting a complex and turned off to school with all the subliminal messages his teacher's corrections are sending him.
All I'll say now is BAH! Unless someone convinces me otherwise, this topic is not worth the ink the almost full page article was written on. Red is the universal color for corrections. A big red "C" means ya done good, anything "X" means ya got more work to do to get it right. "Spare the red spoil the child". Send back my corrections in pink and I'll get a complex because you think I'm gay. Mikey, weigh in on this one please. Would you send back corrected papers in pink or purple possibly a nice powder blue?

09-14-2004, 01:27 PM	#1
Jimbo Registered User Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: S. Yarmouth, MA Posts: 1,604	Seeing Red - Did You Hear About This? Be curious to hear what people think about this. If anyone has heard it before. Apparently, nation-wide, there's a push on to have teachers stop correcting papers and assignments in red because red connotes a sense of violence, war, danger, fire, bloodshed. Instead they're promoting the use of pink and purple, because Johnny might be getting a complex and turned off to school with all the subliminal messages his teacher's corrections are sending him. All I'll say now is BAH! Unless someone convinces me otherwise, this topic is not worth the ink the almost full page article was written on. Red is the universal color for corrections. A big red "C" means ya done good, anything "X" means ya got more work to do to get it right. "Spare the red spoil the child". Send back my corrections in pink and I'll get a complex because you think I'm gay. Mikey, weigh in on this one please. Would you send back corrected papers in pink or purple possibly a nice powder blue?