RE: How universal is a check mark? from Roozbeh Pournader on 2000-06-28 (www-international@w3.org from April to June 2000)

From: Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh@sina.sharif.ac.ir>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 20:59:11 +0430 (IRDT)
To: James Turley <jturley@xai.com>
cc: www-international@w3.org
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10006282055130.11481-100000@Sina.sharif.ac.ir>

On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, James Turley wrote:

> My kids go to Japanese school here in Silicon
> Valley. Their marked up homework comes home with
> zeros for "correct" and check marks for "incorrect".

I had some similiar problems when I went to elementary school here in
Iran. But the problem was with literacy, etc. Some teachers thought that
they may use any sign for anything they want. The next-year teacher may
use other marks. 

--roozbeh

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