More Coddling

When it comes to correcting papers and grading tests, purple is emerging as the new red.

"If you see a whole paper of red, it looks pretty frightening," said Sharon Carlson, a health and physical education teacher at John F. Kennedy Middle School in Northampton. "Purple stands out, but it doesn't look as scary as red."

That's the cue pen makers and office supply superstores say they have gotten from teachers as the $15 billion back-to-school retail season kicks off. They say focus groups and conversations with teachers have led them to conclude that a growing number of the nation's educators are switching to purple, a color they perceive as "friendlier" than red.(See link...
http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles
/2004/08/23/harshness_of_red_marks_has_students_
seeing_purple?mode=PF)

What's next for the victims of public education? Blinders that shield them from the world apart from the indoctrination centers? Puhhhhleeaase!!!!! Will the educrats ever get it? or do they even want to?

Red is scary!

To be sure, red has always been used to alert people. Red stop lights, stop signs, the Red Chinese....red alerts of every kind exist as a warning. Red marks on school assignments are warnings so that the student can know where he needs further study. When you make errors, they need to be corrected and if they're not corrected, then the student may fail. That's pretty scary so what's the problem?

I guess it all goes back to hurting the tender feelings of our frail youth. Which is why public education is failing us. Good feelings and self-esteem apparently have won out as the prime objective of so-called educators. It's not the fault of teachers. Their hands are tied by politically correct administrators who subscribe to the humanistic secular moral relativism wherein everything is acceptable but morality.

Surely the left leaning acedemicians who seek to mold the vacuous 'skulls full of mush' into mind numbed robots of their own creation wouldn't seek to steer their subjects away from the politics of the unenlightened 'red states'. Hmmmmmm...no wonder the color red is so alarming to them.

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