UK teachers told not to mark with red pen
This stupidity was reported from Australia less than a month ago and it’s already spread to (formerly Great) Britain.
Hundreds of schools have barred teachers from marking in red in case it upsets the children.
They are scrapping the traditional method of correcting work because they consider it ‘confrontational’ and ‘threatening’.
Pupils increasingly find that the ticks and crosses on their homework are in more soothing shades like green, blue, pink and yellow, or even in pencil.
It’s becoming clear that politically correct educational bureaucrats are not miffed by red ink so much as by the concept that anything pupils write should be considered erroneous.