'Time Bomb'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Actually, I think asking for clever answers opens the door to the student and you should be more lenient.
I'd mark that one question wrong, and make a point in class that text speak is verboten.
I don't think you can flunk the whole quiz after you've asked for clever responses when you don't know the answer.
Besides, "IDK" barely qualifies as text-speak.
And maybe she was using it ironically! My friends use IDK occasionally, as in "IDK, my BFF Jill?"
FYI is an accepted abbreviation in Webster's 10th Edition.
I'd totally expect to get busted for FYI in a school assignment too. I can't imagine it being appropriate. I'd also expect OK to be corrected to okay.
Lunch place gave me miso soup instead of salad. FAIL.
FYI is an accepted abbreviation in Webster's 10th Edition.
thk U 4 d FYI
Has everybody seen the spider silk fabric?
It has amazing properties but takes a million spiders and four years to make.
Clearly we need to make really enormous spiders to take advantage of their silk. Surely nothing could go wrong with Giant Spider Exploitation.
thk U 4 d FYI
Argh! Stop it!
Surely nothing could go wrong with Giant Spider Exploitation.
You say that now, but what happens when we need their help to combat the Giant Space Fly Invasion?
Also, I bristle at the expectation that teachers should be the ones responsible for coming up with every possible wrong way a question might be answered.
But that's not my expectation. My expectation is that the scoring be spelled out prior to the test. Or,
I'm sorry, but this is bullshit. The student got one answer wrong. Unless the quiz is presented up front as a 100% pass/fail, she should only be penalized for her answer to THAT question. Calling her out for not being "clever" enough just seems mean to me.
What Jess Said again.
A vague disclaimer, after all, is nobody's friend.