CNN: Red Ink Falling Out of Favor with Teachers

Stupid. Stupid. STUPID.

And I say this as someone who got a hell of a lot of red marks on his papers in elementary and high school. Of course, you just know that eventually purple (the replacement color of choice) will itself become stigmatized, thus giving rise to some other color for grades.

Now I can understand mixing up colors a bit to separate corrections from comments. But to eliminate the color red entirely just because it's too "negative"?

Ugh. All I can say is that you can't find self-esteem in a marker, and you can't manufacture it by changing colors.