> I really hope your child's teacher doesn't just mark it right or wrong, but provides a counterargument for a flawed answer. His son's teacher isn't going to

> I really hope your child's teacher doesn't just mark it right or wrong, but provides a counterargument for a flawed answer. His son's teacher isn't going to do this. First, she didn't design the question... even if some public school teachers have the capacity to do this, they don't have the time or resources to design curriculums. Second, if she didn't design it, she likely does not have the wit to be able to argue about it without doing research. Third, public schools aren't places where they make time for each student trying to inspire genius, she really is just checking boxes down a list all semester. Fourth, doing so won't improve his scores on a standardized test. Finally, there was only two inches of blank space for the child to write an answer, she definitely isn't going to write him a thesis on the margins of the paper. Public education is blind idiot god, handing down edicts from on high, some dumb and some smart, some sane and others insane, some incomprensible and some not. And often enough, all of these at the same time. The bell will ring, it will be time for a new lesson, and in that one he will be taught to never leave any multiple choice question unanswered because "they unanswered questions are scored just the same as wrong ones, you might as well guess".