You honestly believe that an essay written in something like glitter pink won't give the reader a different impression than the same one written in black? School prepares you for the professional world, and in the professional world there are guidelines to follow. If you can't follow a simple guideline like writing your essay in black only, what chance do you have? This is the point most of us kids miss.

I think the point a lot of people are trying to make is that blue and black are widely accepted colours for writing in. Hot pink, lime green, orange etc. are not. If you buy a pack of for example, 10 pens most likely you will get 4 black, 4 blue and one of each red and green. See what I'm trying to say? And to the OP, that sucks. When we did our state exams, the teachers told us to try and use blue pens because the black ink would subconsciously make the correctors depressed and they wouldn't want to try and give you as many marks as they could squeeze out of your answers.

It worked for Elle Woods. School =/= professional world. If they're making you handwrite something, they're not preparing you very well anyway - when the last time you saw a handwritten resume, or report, or anything written by someone for a job, that wasn't typed up before it was turned in? Your boss won't care what color you write the draft in; you can write it in rainbow colors if you want, as long as you type it up in the end (and yes, you could change the color of the font, but no one really wants to use color ink if they don't have to, right?). So my point is, if the teacher wants to prepare students for the workforce, s/he should be having them type their papers. If the students don't have to type their papers, then the teacher isn't really trying to prepare them for the workforce, and shouldn't care what color the paper is written in.

Elle Woods is a fictional character in a movie. Douche.

I think it's important to teach kids the importance of following directions. So if you're told to do something in black ink, why would you do it in blue?

Elle Woods is fictional?!?!? I had no idea! Thank you so much for pointing that out to me!! I thought that Legally Blonde was a documentary about the real inner workings of Harvard Law School! Goodness gracious, I'll have to keep that in mind in the future before I say, completely seriously as I did here, that something worked for Elle Woods. My, I feel silly!

Ahahaa, sarcasm ftw!!

your_face for the win!

Well, if people can quote teh bible why not a comedy movie?

I agree, it probably is bs. I haven't hand written any assignments in some 10 years, it's all done by computer now.

Are you drunk?

omg. This cracked me up. It made no sense, but I love it!