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Originally Posted by filtherton
The idea that anything is "just a word" seems to me to be a tad naive.
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And taking from your words, I'll add "a tad naive" is an understatement.
If a word was just a word, anyone could say anything with no fear of repercussion. That simply isn't reality. Even on this board, if one uses the wrong 'words,' they will get banned. So a word really isn't just a word afterall.
As for the teachers who don't want to use red ink, I say good for them. Teaching is difficult enough and any resource to make the learning experience for everyone involved easier is a positive step.
How that makes kid's "pussys" I really don't know. But being a teacher, and having taught young kids, I don't see the connection. I don't use red ink either. There is enough pressure on young kids by their peers to be cool, macho, not a wimp etc,...that actually permeates the opposte of "pussification". Call it machofication or bullyfication.
To call a teaching method that creates a positive notion out of a potentially negative circumstance (a poor grade) "pussification" shows an ignorance towards a profession that some know little about. Hopefully those entrenched with notions of a society being pussified won't become teachers, or better yet, parents.