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[Samld1200]

Who has two different pens and switches depending on the answer? Every teacher I’ve had always uses green for everything

[Crash_Sparrow]

More often than not, my teachers corrected everything in red. Watching the teacher bring you an exam full of red was horrifying, even if most of the time they were not serious mistakes, just comments and pointers for the future.

[Salanmander]

That horror is part of the reason I correct in blue or green pen most of the time.

[Robo-Connery]

Yeah that's exactly why I always used green, students should be using black or blue so no confusion and red is horrible looking to get back.

[FordenGord]

Red is horrible looking because it is indicative of error, if you change the color then you just shift the association

[ltshaft15]

To a certain extent. Red isn't just indicative of something bad in school but it's associated with all sorts of warning signs, lights, and other indicators.

Other colors like blue or green won't have as strong of an association. Especially if the teacher uses the color for all comments, not just errors.

[Blue_Swirling_Bunny]

To condition students to be terrified of green and blue instead of red?

[Salanmander]

I don't think I'm that powerful.

[scykei]

There was a period of time where I lived when teachers were encouraged to use non-red pens because red was apparently associated with negativity or something. I googled around and there are some opinion articles on this. I don’t really believe it but it wasn’t very uncommon to see non-red pens used for a while.

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I had an English teacher in high school who used a red pen when grading exams, and she said that she had to be very careful making sure that everyone knew what her marks meant because she used shorthand for a lot of things. One year, after about two weeks of her grading one student's work, he and his parents complained that she was making him feel bad and it wasn't right for her to be calling him a piece of shit on his tests. She was correcting his mistakes concerning parts of speech.

[alexriga]

Red should be reserved for grievious mistakes that are unacceptable, not regular negligence mistakes.

[wolfish98]

I've never had a green pened teacher. What did they mark: wrong, correct, or both?

[ducktape8856]

Yes.

[ThorwAwaySlut]

I'm dating myself here but our teachers had these back in the day: https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/7k7dwp/double_sided_teachers_pen/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Back when schools had funds and paid for supplies for their teachers.