I think the bigger issue is the teacher's crazy grading criterion. You don't take additional points off for every occurence of the exact same error. That's just nuts.
When I was in high school, I had an English teacher who trashed my grade on a test because 1) I had scanned a line of poetry differently than she thought it should be scanned, but then also 2) I had counted the number of feet correctly for my scansion, but incorrectly for her scansion. In other words, there was not a second independent error, but she took more points off for it anyway.
That kind of stupidity is just inexcusable in a teacher.
I would leave the capitalization issue alone, and tackle the grading criterion issue.
Last edited by MegMeg; 12/01/11 03:26 AM.
