Parents object to red ink on childrens' school papers

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

WTF?

http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=1013391&tw=wn_wire_story

we are becoming a nation of pussies and PC pansies.

[Kori Ellis]

This is ridiculous. First they don't want to keep score in kids' sports and now this.

How is red ink on your paper "stressful" to kids?

The next generation is going to be so damn wimpy. Our future kids are going to frickin' rule!

[Useruser666]

I guess when I do some red lining I should feel bad for the drafter who's paper I'm making corrections on.

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

The great thing is when I have kids they are going to be incredibly successful, because I won't be a PC parent with them.

They'll be raised like I was raised, and in a nation like this article is portraying, where all this sensitivity shit, PC crap, "no stress", whatever the hell they want to call it, my kids will be ready to take life by the balls and not be sitting around waiting for someone to feel sorry for them or do it for them or wait for handouts.

No wonder Osama thinks our nation is weak, look at this shit.

[Shelly]

I saw this in the today's paper and totally rolled my eyes.

[Jimcs50]

This was in the news weeks ago.

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

Stupid.

[Clandestino]

i remember people saying, "it looks like the teacher bled all over my paper." what are they going to say now? "it looks like barney took a shit on my paper!"

[T Park]

God, the public schools are so goddamn fucked up.

[desflood]

This is part of the reason kids can't read anymore. All their parents are worried about the poor little darlings' self esteem and that's become the number one priority.

[CrazyOne]

Aggie, just prepare your kids for the fact that the rest of that generation will probably take 90% of what they earn to take care of the rest. :spin

[SpursWoman]

Stupid.


:lol :lol



Funny, the only teacher I ever had that traumatized me with red ink on my papers was in a college Business Communications class. And to this very day, I check & re-check anything I write for typos and grammatical errors...in the back of my mind is still Sister Mladenka and her big, red pen.

How that affected me? I don't make (many) careless errors which often makes one look like an illiterate idiot to those receiving any correspondance from that person. The horror.


The only problem my kids have with it is that I see those marks a lot easier when I check their work. :cuss :lol

[Jimcs50]

The only red ink that would traumatize me is on my end of the year income statement.

[Shelly]

Stupid.

*Leaves to go look for some Zoloft*

[Useruser666]

This article reminded me of this.....

http://www.cineclub.de/images/demolition_man_1.jpg

http://www.ketzer.com/movie_props/demolition_man_morality.jpg

AHF, you have been fined 5 credits for violation of the verbal morality statute!

[Extra Stout]

The WWII generation went from poverty in the Great Depression to winning WWII and creating the most powerful nation in the history of the world, defeating the other superpower with hardly a shot fired.

Their only mistake was that they made things too easy for their kids. The Baby Boomers have been the softest, most narcissistic, most spoiled, most useless pieces of shit in the history of the world. That's why we have to put up with all this "self-esteem" crap. We're worried about getting our feelings hurt rather than accomplishing anything of value. That's why China and India are starting to kick our ass in everything, and even the milquetoast Europeans are starting to regain the upper hand.

Every successive generation (including mine) has become increasingly more pussylike, lazier, with a greater sense of entitlement, and a more fragile sense of self-esteem.

In the next twenty years or so, it's all going to implode on us, and we'll get to see whether that old-fashioned American perseverance is buried deep within us somewhere, or whether we're just the successor to the fourth-century Roman empire, with waves of invading Goths sacking our cities until we fade into irrelevance.

It's like the difference between rich people who earned every dollar they have through blood, sweat, and pain, and spoiled rich kids born into money who never work a day in their lives, then blow all their wealth on parties and cocaine.

[desflood]

Schools have gone to hell in more ways than one...

Police: Teacher Starts Brawl in Class

Mon Apr 4, 8:33 PM ET Strange News - AP


DALLAS - A high school teacher faces an assault charge after police say she walked into a middle-school classroom, grabbed that teacher's hair, yanked her out of her chair, and dragged her across the room while punching her in the face and kicking her.

According to the police report, Paulette Baines grabbed Mary Oliver in front of the class full of gifted students Friday. Baines was angry because Oliver told her daughter to quit loitering by lockers and go to class, Dallas school district spokesman Donald Claxton said.

Oliver said Baines was yelling at her as she entered the classroom.

"I want you to know I didn't raise a finger. I didn't raise my voice. I didn't do anything to aggravate the situation," Oliver said. "I did everything possible to defuse the situation."

Baines was charged with assault with bodily injury, according to Dallas County Jail records. Baines, 45, was released early Saturday after posting $2,500 bail, a jail official said.

Baines, who was placed on paid administrative leave, did not immediately return a call seeking comment placed by The Associated Press on Monday.

Oliver, who teaches seventh-grade science at a Dallas school for gifted students, said she had bruises on her face, a concussion and two broken ribs.

The incident happened after Oliver talked to Baines' daughter and several other students about going to class. Students are not allowed to be at their lockers during class time, Claxton said.

Oliver said she did not single out Baines' daughter, an eighth-grader. The girl went to the school counselor, who called Baines to tell her what had happened, Claxton said.

[Shelly]

Good Grief.

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

Man, the most red ink I've ever had was in my fourth semester of Russian up at A&M :lol

I got the flu and missed class for three straight weeks, then showed up for the test. I should have saved her some time and brought red paper to take the test on :lol

[mookie2001]

jr. year in high school i got an 8 in chemistry one term
it was the stuff

[GoldToe]

When I read this crap I saw red!!

[Mark in Austin]

I guess when I do some red lining I should feel bad for the drafter who's paper I'm making corrections on.


:lol I have a nickname at the office: The Red Baron.

I have actually switched to green for mark-ups - mainly because the lead is a little harder and I don't go through the pencils as fast. :lol

[Useruser666]

:lol I have a nickname at the office: The Red Baron.

I have actually switched to green for mark-ups - mainly because the lead is a little harder and I don't go through the pencils as fast. :lol

You still use paper? :lol I was talking about red linging on the computer.

[MannyIsGod]

:lmao @ Chopper. NICE.

[JoeChalupa]

I prefer blue.

[Spurbanana]

This is probably why teachers grade in the color that I write in (black or blue, no other colors allowed) and then I can't tell the difference....I hate it, but maybe I'm weird :lol