January 19, 2007
Well done, have a flower
This morning I had to go up to the year 5 class and mark their maths worksheets for them. In Japan you can't put ticks or crosses on the kids' work. A cross is obviously bad, but for some reason a tick is also bad. If they answer correctly you circle it, if incorrect you just leave it blank and they have to try again. When a teacher is marking a written assignment or some such, they read the whole thing and if it is right they use a red pen to draw a big spiral all over the page, over all the kids writing, and then put petals on it to make it a flower. Is that not weird? To me it is defacing the kids' work, and what's with the flower thing?
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how very odd!
you'll have to take a photo and post it so we can see the oddness over here.
Thats what I thought! My kids freaked out when I marked things with a tick and wanted to know why I didn't like them. At my school they dont even draw petals, they just deface the kids work.
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