Red pen too aggressive, Queensland teachers told

[RocksteadyDotNet]

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TEACHERS have been told to stop marking schoolchildren's work with red pen because it is an "aggressive" colour.

Queensland's Deputy Opposition Leader Mark McArdle told parliament today that teachers were being advised to reconsider their pen choice because it may offend children.

This PC bullshit has to end.

If you're upset by red pen you're gonna have serious problems later in life when you need to deal with real issues.

 

[SociallyChallenged]

It offends the Communists. No one ever thinks of the Communists

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

Seriously - it makes the comments stand out and easier to read. My chinese homeworks/tests are all covered in red pen just because my teacher likes to comment about everything. The first time I got it back I was like, "fuck," but then I got used to it. There are worse things than red pen.

 

[MotF Bane]

So we replace red with green, and then green becomes the scary color. The next generation will never go outside... not because of Xbox and PC inside, but because of the terrifying green colors outside.

 

[Shawn]

obligatory "pussification of the world continues".

 

[Howard]

Bureaucrats fear for the mental health of schoolchildren exposed to the teacher's red pen

The best way for these bureaucrats to serve their people is to DIAF.

 

[Born2bwire]

Australia used to be so bad assed... what happened?

 

[RocksteadyDotNet]

Originally posted by: Born2bwire
Australia used to be so bad assed... what happened?

We're still cool!

You say the F bomb on network telly. Freedom FTW.

 

[grrl]

Originally posted by: RocksteadyDotNet
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TEACHERS have been told to stop marking schoolchildren's work with red pen because it is an "aggressive" colour.

Queensland's Deputy Opposition Leader Mark McArdle told parliament today that teachers were being advised to reconsider their pen choice because it may offend children.

This PC bullshit has to end.

If you're upset by red pen you're gonna have serious problems later in life when you need to deal with real issues.

I agree it's nonsense, but how is it "PC"?

 

[TehMac]

Originally posted by: Howard

Bureaucrats fear for the mental health of schoolchildren exposed to the teacher's red pen

The best way for these bureaucrats to serve their people is to DIAF.

And take their taxes with them.

 

[Born2bwire]

Originally posted by: RocksteadyDotNet

Originally posted by: Born2bwire
Australia used to be so bad assed... what happened?

We're still cool!

You say the F bomb on network telly. Freedom FTW.

You can't even get an M rating for your video games.

 

[RocksteadyDotNet]

Originally posted by: grrl

Originally posted by: RocksteadyDotNet
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TEACHERS have been told to stop marking schoolchildren's work with red pen because it is an "aggressive" colour.

Queensland's Deputy Opposition Leader Mark McArdle told parliament today that teachers were being advised to reconsider their pen choice because it may offend children.

This PC bullshit has to end.

If you're upset by red pen you're gonna have serious problems later in life when you need to deal with real issues.

I agree it's nonsense, but how is it "PC"?

Political correctness (adjectivally, politically correct; both forms commonly abbreviated to PC) is a term applied to language, ideas, policies, or behavior seen as seeking to minimize offense to gender, racial, cultural, disabled, aged or other identity groups.

 

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: RocksteadyDotNet
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TEACHERS have been told to stop marking schoolchildren's work with red pen because it is an "aggressive" colour.

Queensland's Deputy Opposition Leader Mark McArdle told parliament today that teachers were being advised to reconsider their pen choice because it may offend children.

This PC bullshit has to end.

If you're upset by red pen you're gonna have serious problems later in life when you need to deal with real issues.

more PC BS.

Carlton University's Student Union in Ottawa Canada decided that Cystic Fibrosis wasn't "inclusive" enough for them to collect donations for it. Apparently, diseases have to be PC to now to get funding.

 

[RocksteadyDotNet]

Originally posted by: Born2bwire

Originally posted by: RocksteadyDotNet

Originally posted by: Born2bwire
Australia used to be so bad assed... what happened?

We're still cool!

You say the F bomb on network telly. Freedom FTW.

You can't even get an M rating for your video games.

Yeah, but that's more because no one got round to updating the laws, rather than a conscious effort by goverment to restrict R rated games.

And you'll find most of your R games a M here.

 

[Kadarin]

Idiocy. There will be a generation of people who grow up completely and totally unable to deal with life. And then the pharmaceutical industry will be happy to move in and prescribe lots of psychoactive medications to help them out...

 

[BoomerD]

I was the student aid for the bookkeeping professor this semester...I used to make papers BLEED red ink...

Red ink is a highly visible way to point out errors and make corrections/notes with.

Maybe the "bad" part is that it does stand out so that someone else might see the errors too...

"Jimmy, youre paper has bunches of red ink...your stuped!"

 

[IGBT]

..you allowed the dismal tide into public education. now your stuck with it. get used to it and plenty worse.

 

[grrl]

Originally posted by: RocksteadyDotNet

Originally posted by: grrl

I agree it's nonsense, but how is it "PC"?

Political correctness (adjectivally, politically correct; both forms commonly abbreviated to PC) is a term applied to language, ideas, policies, or behavior seen as seeking to minimize offense to gender, racial, cultural, disabled, aged or other identity groups.

So the "identity group" is students? I asked because I think the term is overused. This is simply a case of "dumbing down," among other things.

 

[RocksteadyDotNet]

Originally posted by: grrl

Originally posted by: RocksteadyDotNet

Originally posted by: grrl

I agree it's nonsense, but how is it "PC"?

Political correctness (adjectivally, politically correct; both forms commonly abbreviated to PC) is a term applied to language, ideas, policies, or behavior seen as seeking to minimize offense to gender, racial, cultural, disabled, aged or other identity groups.

So the "identity group" is students? I asked because I think the term is overused. This is simply a case of "dumbing down," among other things.

I was think the "sensitive students" were the identity group.

 

[grrl]

Originally posted by: RocksteadyDotNet

I was think the "sensitive students" were the identity group.

Ah, I had forgotten about them!

Those poor sensitive students. How will they ever manage in the real world?

 

[RocksteadyDotNet]

Originally posted by: grrl

Originally posted by: RocksteadyDotNet

I was think the "sensitive students" were the identity group.

Ah, I had forgotten about them!

Those poor sensitive students. How will they ever manage in the real world?

Yeah, that's what I was goin for.

There probably is a better description than PC though. Not "dumbin down" either.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Born2bwire
Australia used to be so bad assed... what happened?

Too many red pens scared them all into being submissive wimps.

 

[grrl]

Originally posted by: RocksteadyDotNet

There probably is a better description than PC though. Not "dumbin down" either.

Actually I was thinking of mollycoddling.

 

[onlyCOpunk]

Red marker offends me, I should whinge to my MP too.

 

[blinky8225]

Originally posted by: Kadarin
Idiocy. There will be a generation of people who grow up completely and totally unable to deal with life. And then the pharmaceutical industry will be happy to move in and prescribe lots of psychoactive medications to help them out...

Our kids will be okay. People said the same the same thing about about the nuclear family in the 1950s with the overly nurturing mother, but the baby boomers turned out fine, didn't they?