I mark papers in red pen when I mark them in hard copy. Otherwise, I ask they submit it all online. I don't do track changes; I just comment.
The first paper set for my AP kids is always turned in online and I print and comment big time (that way I can keep track of word count and check for plagiarism quickly) usually in red pen or green or purple or even black or blue.
I have also instituted fatal errors. If kids make a set of mistakes then I stop grading and they get a zero. I'm going to make a stamp with a kiss on it and just say it's the kiss of death. Fatal errors include not capitalizing I, not punctuating titles, misspelling literature, author, poet or the name of the texts about which you are writing. I also count the set of big homonyms as major errors when used incorrectly.
In other news, Grace is changing schools as of Monday. Her last day at her old school is tomorrow. They, oddly, made her student of the month. Wha? Also they actually wrote in her IEP, which is a legally binding document, that she is adorable. So now she is legally adorable. Oy.
If you got your pizza at Regnelli's (which I suspect you have)
Totes did! It was pretty tasty. I actually don't like most hummus. Heresy, I know.
I will say that metal/copper theft and resale is a HUGE HUGE ENORMOUS issue here
Indeed. Like, once the wiring is in, you best start sleeping in your house, or it won't be there long. Nora and I know someone whose wiring has been stolen out at least twice, if not three times.
what?
damn smonster. Although I heard that they have ripped out the innards of most of the houses in the Detroit area.
smonster, easy for you to say. She's like Miss Princess already. She's been imitating the teacher shushing people. At soccer (where she won the sportsman award -- again, kid you not... this is the kid who made herself throw up when she didn't want to play), the volunteers love to pick her up and spin her around and Alexie, the little boy in a walker, actually said today, "I have a crush on Gracie. She's cute!"
Oy.
They are politicians. Of course they're stupid.
Not seriously, right?
Quick, Kat, make Noah (my keyboard suggested mpreg for that) legally cute, or something. This cannot stand.
Well, the org I worked for in NC put metal cages around all the A/C units. We had the wiring stolen out from under a house we worked on. They got about $100 of copper; it cost about $5K to rewire, IIRC. There I worked in the hood. New Orleans is mostly hood, or the hood is only ever a few blocks away, I should say.
Nora and I know someone whose wiring has been stolen out at least twice, if not three times.
Yep.
Although I heard that they have ripped out the innards of most of the houses in the Detroit area.
Blighted/abandoned properties here have long been stripped for parts. What's heartbreaking is when people were trying to rebuild and literally overnight they'd lose $8K worth of copper and wiring that these fucking crackheads would sell for $500.
HA. Noah is not mpreg, thank god! I don't know how to make him legally cute. Nor do I know how to unmake Grace legally adorable.
Not seriously, right?
No, of course not. My point was more that terrible laws are made all over the country, not just in the Alabama-Mississippi-Louisiana Vortex of Hickitude.
