As a teacher have you ever personally gave a student an upper hand while grading something of theirs because you like them? Or because they have done well on prior assignments? I sadly have a couple teachers like this who only like the very smart kid

I try to be aware of this as much as possible.  Usually on a major writing assignment, I will try to block out the students’ names from their work so I can have an unbiased opinion of their work.  It’s hard to do this every time, so I usually go back over each mark after I finish grading every assignment to make sure I was fair.

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