Teachers in Australia are being told to avoid using red pens to mark their students' work, because the color can be seen as aggressive. Huh? I had to re-read that one, just to make sure I understood. Apparently the advice--given out to about 29 schools as part of a Queensland Health kit--has caused quite the brouhaha. Opposition health spokesman Mark McArdle called it a "kooky, loony, loopy, Left policy." And Queensland Council of Parents and Citizens Associations President Margaret Black made an impassioned plea to scrap it. "We're calling for our children to grow up normally, including their work being marked with a red pen," she said...Read it here.
