Political Correctness REALLY REALLY gone mad
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I am assured that many in journalism use the expression "green ink letter" to refer to one of those letters that generally reads:
"Dear Sir,
In my day, bu**ery was simply an everyday part of our duties as Etonians. I bu**ered and I was bu**ered, it never did me any harm. BAAAAAAAAH!
But nowadays I hear that some strange folk regard this as grounds for marriage. MOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Apparently green ink is somewhat prevalent in such letters.
So, perhaps you should get a psychologist with a background in journalism to assess you: They'll see your green marking, conclude you are mad as a hatter and then you will have a case for job-related illness through the courts.
"Dear Sir,
In my day, bu**ery was simply an everyday part of our duties as Etonians. I bu**ered and I was bu**ered, it never did me any harm. BAAAAAAAAH!
But nowadays I hear that some strange folk regard this as grounds for marriage. MOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Apparently green ink is somewhat prevalent in such letters.
So, perhaps you should get a psychologist with a background in journalism to assess you: They'll see your green marking, conclude you are mad as a hatter and then you will have a case for job-related illness through the courts.
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Why does it have to be green? Why not blue, black or pencil?
When I was at school, most of my teachers could not have been trusted with a crayon.
But totally agree, it is PC gone mad. What other country in the world would put up with it?
I think that most teachers, other than the complete sadists amongst them, do a damn fine job, and don't need this kind of harrasment.
P.S When I was at school my teachers said I would never achieve anything. In fact, they voted me the most likely person to post on internet forums
When I was at school, most of my teachers could not have been trusted with a crayon.
But totally agree, it is PC gone mad. What other country in the world would put up with it?
I think that most teachers, other than the complete sadists amongst them, do a damn fine job, and don't need this kind of harrasment.
P.S When I was at school my teachers said I would never achieve anything. In fact, they voted me the most likely person to post on internet forums
Hang on a cotton-picking minute - in what way is this political correctness?notb665 said:
Surely this is an attempt to improve teacher-student relationships. As a student I received red pen marks all the bleeding time, and it p*ssed me off.
It seems to me more an attempt to move one of the few remaining medieval teaching practices into an age where we generally attempt to (a) be more considerate and (b) treat children simply as young adults.
Oh, don't get me wrong - I know this view puts me in a minority on this forum, but that doesn't make me wrong. All I really want to know is, why are so many attempts at improving the quality of life, in an egalitarian manner, pigeon-holed (sorry, categorised in a bird-loft kind of way) as "PC gone mad"? C*rist alive - there are enough examples of that (inspection cover etc.) for us to complain about without running down some of the more laudable changes.
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Softus, have to ask, what does it matter what colour papers are marked in? When I went 2 school many teachers were not people who wanted to educate, but people who had failed at their chosen profession. And some of them were not the nurturing type, but real nasty c**ts. Excuse my French. And even the few who genuinely wanted to help the kids, were generally ridiculed by the kids, and given a bloody hard life. Now, i appreciate that all kids should be made to feel worthy, and not belittled bya teacher harbouring professional frustrations of any sort. But if we live in a society where the colour of a pen-stroke supposedly indicates something more sinister than the correctness of the answer, then are we not on the slippery slope to educational failure? Just wondering mate?
Softus, I have to agree with the others here. When I was at school, the comments I most dreaded were "see me!". It didn't matter a flying fig what colour those comments were in. Actually some of my teachers did, indeed use green. The outcome was generally the same.
I would be sent to the head, who would then give me a sound thrashing with the cane. Usually accompanied by a lecture about, how lucky I was to be in this school, coming from such a working class background.
I gather that the cane has now been completely banned. I'm not even convinced that this is a good thing. Sometimes kids just need to be put in their place. I have to admit, even some of the corporal punishment that I received was fully justified.
I would be sent to the head, who would then give me a sound thrashing with the cane. Usually accompanied by a lecture about, how lucky I was to be in this school, coming from such a working class background.
I gather that the cane has now been completely banned. I'm not even convinced that this is a good thing. Sometimes kids just need to be put in their place. I have to admit, even some of the corporal punishment that I received was fully justified.
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I agree with Softus on this...although the colour of the ink may seem irrelevent, I think that children, as we all do naturally, associate red with danger or fear..as in Red Orb spider, Red=Danger etc..
We should be encouraging a regime of mutual respect in education, and if this helps to achieve the end game, then I don't see it makes a big sdifference...I'm sure the comments the teachers leave has hardly altered much..
We should be encouraging a regime of mutual respect in education, and if this helps to achieve the end game, then I don't see it makes a big sdifference...I'm sure the comments the teachers leave has hardly altered much..
Is the best argument you can offer kendor - that people who disagree with you are "loony left"? I had thought better of you than that.kendor said:Bloomin loony left eh! Whatever next? we'll soon be eating with knives and forks if they get their way!!
I respect your point of view on this, and that of TM, but to answer your question: yes. Some people don't mind, and some people do. May the people who don't mind, actaully do, but don't know it. I don't know - I'm open-minded. I would not advocate change unless there were more people than just me, i.e. unless there were some scientific basis. I will look into this, but I'm expecting to find that some sane and non-partisan analysis has been performed.TraineeSpark said:
Try to think of this story more as 'Educational psychologists have found that children respond best to having their work marked in Green ink, encouraging them to greater achievements' and you won't all find it so annoying.......
they just banned the scottish version of a black and white minstral show as it take the pi** out of black people ??? buncha idiots with black paint as far as i can tell black people would laugh at them and not see them as a threat
Softus I was being Sarcastic or perdantic.Softus said:Is the best argument you can offer kendor - that people who disagree with you are "loony left"? I had thought better of you than that.kendor said:Bloomin loony left eh! Whatever next? we'll soon be eating with knives and forks if they get their way!!
having a dig at our right wing brothers Softus said:
It's political correctness because it's a softly softly approach over such a silly thing. I mean, is red really going to "offend" or upset kids? If something's wrong, something's wrong, let's not beat about the bush, so let's put the colour of blood (where our use of red comes from), not some feeble weak-minded 'green'.
If i was a teacher i would rebel - marking in pink for girls and blue for boys. Problem with marking in blue and black (sorry, dark grey) is the kids usually use these colours. Some of my teachers used pencil to mark, which is fine since their writing was sometimes so jagged and scrawly you could easily make it out from my own freshly-taught handwriting.
Funnily enough, i was looking through some of my mum's old school reports the other day, the went to the same school as me, and i immediately recognised one of the teacher's writing because he had the amazing ability to make one word fit across a page by streching the joins between letters. consequently his reports were about 5 words long. He still wrote reports by hand even when i left 3 years ago, and everyone else was using computers.
Funnily enough, i was looking through some of my mum's old school reports the other day, the went to the same school as me, and i immediately recognised one of the teacher's writing because he had the amazing ability to make one word fit across a page by streching the joins between letters. consequently his reports were about 5 words long. He still wrote reports by hand even when i left 3 years ago, and everyone else was using computers.
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