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Purple pens!
z1a
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God I hate teachers!
Sons school have now decided that pupils have to use purple ball-points in class, they don't supply. Has anybody tried buying one from normal shops/supermarkets that they use?
Been to Morrisons, Asda & Tesco in last 2 days for various items, blue, black, red & even green pens. - Purple - no chance.
Sons school have now decided that pupils have to use purple ball-points in class, they don't supply. Has anybody tried buying one from normal shops/supermarkets that they use?
Been to Morrisons, Asda & Tesco in last 2 days for various items, blue, black, red & even green pens. - Purple - no chance.
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Just got some from eBay. Stupid idea.0
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What absolute nonsense. I can't imagine why parents would agree to this. If the parents said NO what would the school do? Suspend the children? Fine the parents? Ridiculous - just say you haven't got the time or the will to comply with the new requirement and let them get on with it.0
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Got some to make sons life a bit easier, had quite a few arguments already with his school about various things.0
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I'm curious - are these for written work or for peer marking?0
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Make £2026 in 2026
Prolific £156.37, TCB £8.24, Everup £12.17
Total £176.78 8.7%Make £2025 in 2025 Total £2241.23/£2025 110.7%
Prolific £1062.50, Octopoints £6.64, TCB £492.05, Tesco Clubcard challenges £89.90, Misc Sales £321, Airtime £70, Shopmium £53.06, Everup £106.08, Zopa CB £30, Misc survey £10
Make £2024 in 2024 Total £1410/£2024 70%Make £2023 in 2023 Total: £2606.33/£2023 128.8%0 -
Have they given a reason?
Just got full story, it's apparently only for corrections, amendments & re-work. Not for normal use.
Still an awkward colour to request, I'm red/green colour blind to some extent and I'm not sure that I would know whether he'd wrote in blue or purple anyway.0 -
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From 2014!
I did a bit of teaching in Primary Schools around 2013 and we were still stuck on Green pens :rotfl:
I once got shouted at by my course tutor for daring to use Red to mark a piece of student work! MASSIVE mistake!
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This takes me back to my teacher training days back in the 70s when I handwrote an essay using a purple pen. My English tutor wrote on the bottom 'You know what they say about purple ink!!' I never did find out but hoped it wasn't a secret signal like pampas grass.somewhere between Heaven and Woolworth's0
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