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[–] 21 points 3 months ago (15 children)

What does the red fish squiggly on the side mean? Correct or incorrect?

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    It's an "X" to indicate incorrect answer. The teacher has 100+ papers to grade and a lesson plan to get together for tomorrow and doesn't have time to make their marks look pretty.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

    I'm in a different pink collar profession and sometimes when I have an audit checklist to circle "yes" for "I did the thing" down 15 items my circles just turn into a long chained spiral.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    May I ask what category a “pink collar” profession is?

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

    I used to have a teacher (and multiple others since then) back in the 90s who also used the same squiggly to indicate correct answers. Not sure what the origin is, but I've also used it since

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    That’s interesting. I had the exact opposite experience in the same timeframe. Those are X’s written really fast and the pen doesn’t leave the page. I’ve only ever seen those marks used to indicate incorrect answers.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Now that I think about it, maybe the "correct" ones were rotated 90 degrees counter-clockwise, in which case I guess it might mean a quickly drawn V?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    In addition to what others have said (this is an X), American teachers traditionally use red pen to mark incorrect answers/correct mistakes.

    The teacher marked these as incorrect.

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