Purple eases pupils' fears

Noddy beat ya to the punch on this story...

Back when I was in the first grade (circa 1973) my teacher surprised us by grading her papers with a green ballpoint pen. I remember it was a standard-looking Bic with a clear plastic barrel.

Anyway, I asked her about it, and she told me it was because green was not readily available--only teachers could buy them back then (for the young ones here, pens used to be black, blue or red. You'd be hard-pressed to find any ballpoint in any other color--at least in my neck of the woods).

So it wasn't about protecting my feelings. It was about preventing forgery.

General Tsao

i used one of these when i was a kid
4-in-1 (black, blue, red & green ink)

yeah man i had one of those too mine was blue and white : blue bottom with a white top
and it had four sliders on the top next to a little white bobble, one of each colour you could press down