Sounds good WI but beware, your children may be traumatized for life.

Read on......

“If you see a whole paper of red, it looks pretty frightening," said Sharon Carlson, a health and physical education teacher at John F. Kennedy Middle School in Northampton. "Purple stands out, but it doesn't look as scary as red."

They say focus groups and conversations with teachers have led them to conclude that a growing number of the nation's educators are switching to purple, a color they perceive as "friendlier" than red.

A mix of red and blue, the color purple embodies red's sense of authority but also blue's association with serenity, making it a less negative and more constructive color for correcting student papers, color psychologists said. Purple calls attention to itself without being too aggressive. And because the color is linked to creativity and royalty, it is also more encouraging to students.
"The concept of purple as a replacement for red is a pretty good idea," said Leatrice Eiseman, director of the Pantone Color Institute in Carlstadt, N.J., and author of five books on color. "You soften the blow of red. Red is a bit over-the-top in its aggression."
http://www.boston.com/news/educatio..._seeing_purple/


Teachers at a primary school have been told not to mark children's work in red ink because it encourages a "negative approach".
In future, pupils at Uplands Manor Primary School in Smethwick, West Midlands, will see their mistakes struck through with a green pen.
Critics have condemned the change as "politically correct" and "trendy".
But Penny Penn-Howard, head of school improvement for Sandwell Council, said: "The colour of the pen used for marking is not greatly significant except that the red pen has negative connotations and can be seen as a negative approach to improving pupils' work.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/2688623.stm

NEW YORK, and TRUMBULL, Conn., Jan. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Purple, the traditional color of royalty, is making the trip from the castle to the classroom -- thanks to the feeling among teachers today that when it comes to marking papers, red is, well, a little too angry.
Purple's popularity can be tracked country-wide with the sales of purple pens showing a marked increase and pen manufacturers, like Pilot Pen, producing a wider variety of purple-inked products. "We've introduced six purple pens to our line. Purple ink has really taken off this year as more teachers tell us about their preference for purple as a more-friendly replacement for red," said Robert Silberman, VP of Marketing for Pilot Pen.
"And their students agree -- it's less aggressive but conveys a feeling of authority in a constructive way."
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/s...02898844&EDATE=

And so your honor, my defense is that my teachers all used red pens......
Is THAT what happened to our generation? Wasn't the pot after all! *high 5's Steph*