Comment on I mean, technically the kid's right

affenlehrer@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• operationalHazard@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve had teachers who draw X’s fast enough they just do it in one motion and it looks as above.

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  • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    X presumably means wrong?

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    • operationalHazard@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yep

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• zaphod@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Looks like an alpha, so I assume this is all correct.

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• EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s an “X” to indicate incorrect answer. The teacher has 100+ papers to grade and a lesson plan to get together for tomorrow and doesn’t have time to make their marks look pretty.

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  • Apytele@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m in a different pink collar profession and sometimes when I have an audit checklist to circle “yes” for “I did the thing” down a 15 item audit checklist my circles just turn into a long chained spiral.

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    • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      May I ask what category a “pink collar” profession is?

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      • Impound4017@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Pink collar jobs are those which, historically, have been considered to be “women’s work”. Jobs like Teaching, Nursing, Daycare, etc.

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      • diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The one that involves circling “yes” for “I did the thing” down 15 items

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• RiceMunk@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I used to have a teacher back in the 90s who also used the same squiggly to indicate correct answers. Not sure what the origin is, but I’ve also used it since

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  • MacAttak8@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s interesting. I had the exact opposite experience in the same timeframe. Those are X’s written really fast and the pen doesn’t leave the page. I’ve only ever seen those marks used to indicate incorrect answers.

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    • RiceMunk@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Now that I think about it, maybe the “correct” ones were rotated 90 degrees counter-clockwise, in which case I guess it might mean a quickly drawn V?

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      • Coolcoder360@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah when I was in school it was X for wrong (with the loop as pictured) and check marks for correct. And a check mark can certainly look like a V when going fast. ✔️

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• lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s an alpha and short for: αλλ ριγητ

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• Drusas@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In addition to what others have said (this is an X), American teachers traditionally use red pen to mark incorrect answers/correct incorrect answers.

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