[geeks] New Tech Schools: Digital Harbor in Baltimore

[Brian Dunbar]

wa2egp at att.net wrote:
>> I suppose I'm just a grumpy old man.  Bah.
>>
>> -- 
>> Brian Dunbar
> 
> Keep grumping.  A lot of ditricts are tyring to get rid
> of the older faculty since a lot of us remember the
> way it used to be.  The school boards rather have the
> newer teachers that were taught nonsense like grading
> with a red pen is too tramatic for the student. :)
> 
> Bob

I thought you were kidding - but my wife the former teacher confirmed
that, yes, teachers are taught that a red pen is 'traumatic'.

She also said that she used a red pen.

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Brian Dunbar
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