Gerry explains his marking strategy on Mr. D

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Mr.

D.

There

goes your weekend,

eh?

marking.

Working?

Not really.

Let me explain how this works.

If these were regular tests,

what I would do is I would find the smartest students,

Maya,

and I would mark hers first,

right?

Then I'd use that as my answer key.

But these are essay questions.

Now,

if I were to read these,

it would take forever,

so I don't.

So, I look at their mark going into it.

Okay?

Like Maya,

where's Maya?

Had the highest mark in the class,

there she is,

so that's my answer key.

Don't you already know the

answers?

sometimes theirs are better.

I got to give her a good mark,

a couple of circles,

and then sometimes, "too vague,"

"too vague."

That way I don't have to give her 100. Yeah, got to be

realistic. They only look, marked 96.

I give her a little more than she has going in that way she won't come back to

challenge me. It’s a good

system.

Jimmy,

Jimmy,

look at Jimmy,

nothing.

Right, it’s got nothing. Garbage.

Waste of time.

33.

There's some words there,

but I have no time to read them.

So then I get angry:

"Jimmy!

Ridiculous.

This has got to stop."

He could say the same thing to you,

OK?

You got the system?

Yeah,

it's a good system,

buddy.

You do those ones.

You want me to mark them?

You don't really mark.

You just...

All right,

you put marks on it and you

circle a number.

I’m so scared. I'm a forger.

OK.

Here's Mike.

Now Mike,

he's got a 62.

You should give him an 80.

Give him an 80.

Make his day,

right?

OK.

And he goes home.

His parents are excited.

I like that. Finally.

Like you've been rooting for him the whole time.

Yeah. About time.

Thank you.

This person,

Shauna,

I don't like her.

Drives me nuts,

right?

So, what I do is I fail her on the exam,

but I just give her enough to pass the course so I don't have to teach her again.

So, it's like a lot of check marks,

some question marks,

underline some things,

a couple of good comments.

"Mediocre."

Haven’t used that one.

That's a good one.

Happy face.

Smile.

That

is

disturbing.

You are almost a teacher.

Mr. D,

Monday starting January 9th on CBC.