<p>I don’t mind either. As a matter of fact, I think red ink makes your mistakes stand out more strongly therefore one is more apt to correct them. Purple or blue ink is more likely to blend in with the paper, making the person less likely to pay attention to the mistakes.</p>
<p>I hate it when teachers grade with black or blue ink. You spend the first 4 seconds looking for your grade, then the next minute trying to figure out where you went wrong.</p>
<p>I love red ink. When I hand in papers, my teachers always seem to have a problem finding things to correct. So I like more red ink. It might sound odd, but it’s really nerve-wracking to get a paper with, say, a 97 written on it, yet there’s little red ink. It’s like they took off points just because. </p>
<p>For things other than papers, I still prefer red ink. I like to do my homework in black pen (for the teachers who allow it), and then it’s just stupid when the teachers grade my black ink with their black ink.</p>
<p>And I had one teacher in junior high who graded in pink because red is traumatizing. Pink was six times as traumatizing as red. There’s nothing like getting a test back that says “Explain more!” in light pink ink.</p>
<p>This is ■■■■■■■■. Clint Eastwood recently commented America is full of babies. Spot on. Seriously? Red ink? Then stop making as many mistakes. ‘traumatized’. haha.</p>
<p>"I never use red to grade papers because it stands out like, ‘Oh, here’s what you did wrong.’ " said Melanie Irvine, a third-grade teacher at Pacific Rim Elementary in Carlsbad.</p>
<p>Clearly we should never tell kids they’re wrong, what an excellent teacher.</p>
<p>Term evaluation scores are weakly biased by correction ink color here. I stopped grading in red because it seemed more punative than rehabilitative (“2+2=5.” Red: WRONG. Failure. Idiot. Should’ve known that… Something else: Wrong. Try again. You’re not an idiot, but that’s not right. Open the book.) </p>
<p>Some managers tell their employees to go easy on the red in things like powerpoint talks because of the psychological signals excessive use of red sends to some people (sounds like total b—sh-t to me but whatever)</p>
<p>I think it’s utter crap. If you’re worried that that will rui your child’s self estem, what happens when they get out in the real world where they will be wrong, and they can’t handle that pressure. They obviously didn’t have the self confidence to be smashed if that’s all it takes. </p>
<p>I have one teacher that always grades in green, but that’s just due to an obbsession with his pen.
Another who won’t do red so she doesn’t have to deal with the parents. The rest I don’t look at because most of their comments are obvious things.</p>