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“We don’t write our fours like that here.”First grade. We had a substitute teacher since our teacher was sick that day. Our teacher had left addition worksheets for the sub to hand out.We were happily doing our addition worksheets that afternoon. After we’d finished the worksheet, we were supposed to take it to the sub and she would check it.I finished the worksheet first. I had double checked all my answers and was pretty sure that I hadn’t made any mistakes.The sub glanced over my worksheet.“You got the wrong answer for this one. Three plus one isn’t seven.”I looked at my worksheet. I had written a four.“That’s a four, not a seven.”“No, that’s a seven.”My mom was educated in India, where the four was usually written like this:It was what she had taught me. It was also the 4 I had written on my sheet.“It’s a seven!” the sub insisted.I calmly told her that my usual teacher had accepted my style of four. It was clearly different from a seven.“No. I won’t accept it.”And she made me do the same worksheet over again. She wouldn’t let me leave the classroom for dismissal until I wrote all the fours her way.Naturally, after that day, I began to write my 4s in the American way.I learned a lesson about standardization in American public schools that day.

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Yes.For example, I sometime give writing assignments. I’ll ask the students to write about a certain topic. The directions clearly say to keep it between 1–2 pages. That’s because I don’t care about their opinion on the topic… I’m checking their writing abilities to see if we need to review any grammar rules.If a student turns in more than two pages, they haven’t followed the directions. They get no credit for the entire assignment.I don’t do that to be a dick. I do it to teach them a lesson about following directions.I also give them no credit if they don’t follow simple directions on a worksheet. For example, if they circle something when it said to underline it, or if they write a word for a multiple choice answer, when the directions said to just write the letter of the choice.They also get no credit if I assigned just the even or odd questions on something, and they did all of the questions. They don’t get credit for any of them, even if they got the ones they were supposed to do right, because they didn’t follow the directions.My method works. It only takes a handful of kids getting a zero on an assignment for not following directions before everyone pays more attention to what the directions are actually asking for and follows them for the rest of the year.