I found the songs to Commentary! The Musical and have started listening. "Suck it, I gave him fifteen" kills me.

Perhaps I am particularly sensitive to this issue because I had to deal with law students who had typos, grammatical errors and spacing issues in their papers, and would get upset when they lost 1/3 of their points because of it.

I am still bitter about a paper I wrote in eighth grade. The teacher gave three grades (that each counted as much as a test), one for content, one for spelling/grammar, and one for, I don't know, something else. I had a lot of footnotes, and I forgot to put a period at the end of each footnote.

So she took two points off.

Per period.

I got something like a 27 for spelling/grammar, which resulted in the first B I ever got on my report card. It was only a six-weeks grade, thankfully, but it still pissed me off that she didn't just take, say, ten points off for the mistake in general.

It was only a six-weeks grade, thankfully, but it still pissed me off that she didn't just take, say, ten points off for the mistake in general.

you never did it again, did you? In my experience, when you let students slide, they don't take the rules seriously, and it can take getting the smackdown to make them get their shit together.

This whole educational-style-and-goal discussion is just pissing me off.

I'm going to take a break from Natter - probably all of b.org - except for the BSG game for a while, because right now I just want to slap you all really, really hard.

The sanctimony here is thick enough to choke me.

That makes me think of my high school AP Calc class. The first test was a killer and most of the class got an 'F' even though everyone in there pretty much sailed through every math class they had ever taken. I think the teacher used it as a message of "Yeah, this is how this class is going to be. Nobody will be skating through."

Err... it was Polter-Cow's post that made me think of it.

you never did it again, did you?

Oh, I learned my lesson.

I think I was particularly upset because there was some issue with the handout she had given to us with the grammar rules, like it was a bad copy so I couldn't tell that there was supposed to be a period at the end.

I'm going to take a break from Natter - probably all of b.org - except for the BSG game for a while, because right now I just want to slap you all really, really hard.

SH, we are a place that encourages discussion and dissent, but statements like this are rude and not how we roll.

Thank you, Vortex.

I'm going to take a break from Natter - probably all of b.org - except for the BSG game for a while, because right now I just want to slap you all really, really hard.

It was my Commentary! The Musical post that probably did it.

Weren't we just talking about having a new kprinkle?