If teachers mark students' work with a red pen they run the danger of offending children because red is an "aggressive colour". See Courier mail.
I am nearly at a loss for words.
I can, in fact, hardly do better than the words of Deputy Opposition Leader Mark McArdle, who said:
"Given your 10-year-old Labor government presides over the lowest numeracy and literacy standards of any state in Australia, don't you think it's time we focused on classroom outcomes rather than these kooky, loony, loopy, lefty policies?"
Does it really soften the blow if your essay is returned so smothered with purple ink you can't read it, or the "F" is written in green, or you find "Rat shit" scrawled across the top in a fetching shade of mauve?
But wait, there's more.
Just to illustrate that Queensland seems to be adept at breeding proto-fascist governments of any stripe, see this brilliant piece of wartime-government evasion from our premier:
"Premier Anna Bligh called the question trivial at a time of "such economic peril"."
Well, Anna, if you can't focus on competing demands of government at the same time, resign.
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