NoRedInk is an awful, terrible, and hurtful online teaching application that some schools force their students to use. The whole website is fundamentally flawed and is an absolute waste of time. The prompts that NoRedInk gives to the students make absolutely no sense and causes the students to get frustrated while completing their assigned tasks on the site. Students have claimed that NoRedInk assignments take hours to complete when in reality it should only take about 30 minutes.

NoRedInk also unfairly and brutally punishes students for even one question answered incorrectly. If a student gets a question wrong at any point during the lesson, they are required to correctly answer 3 more questions in a row to continue on with said lesson, and the counter resets itself if another question is answered incorrectly. Also, if the students use hints at any time, they cannot move on with the lesson unless they answer 3 questions in a row correctly. This is why students who use NoRedInk are scared of using the site hints because they fear that if they use said hints then they will be met with the brutal and unforgiving penalty system. The penalty can also seemingly go on infinitely if the student constantly fails to get 3 correct answers in a row, and can seemingly be stuck on one topic forever, without an end in sight. This website, with the addition of the broken and unfair penalty system, ultimately ruins students’ days and also kills their grades.

As a victim of NoRedInk, I absolutely hated this website with a burning passion. I was seemingly stuck on one topic for 50+ minutes with the website constantly mocking me for my ‘great effort’. I cannot stress how many mental breakdowns I have had because of this ineffective and harmful site. During my ELA class, my friends all around me were getting frustrated with this site and its ridiculous and unfair penalty system. Some even slammed their fists on their desks because of the site’s brutal and unforgiving nature. All of my friends around me hated it as much as I did.

All of the stress that comes from NoRedInk is completely unnecessary, and quite frankly, harmful. All of the stress that NoRedInk gives its victims (the students) is unhealthy amounts of stress that can actually negatively affect them later on as an adult. Study Island, which is a few layers above this site, but still bad, has many different ways to learn a certain subject, and does not punish you for getting a question wrong. All it will do is show an X next to the wrong answer, then will let you move on with the lesson. It does not have a unfair, harmful, ridiculous, and unforgiving penalty system where you are forced to do more questions in a row, and answer them correctly. The only website where you experience such behavior on is NoRedInk.

All that NoRedInk seems to do is bully students by punishing them for even getting a single question wrong, making it one of the most disgraceful learning tools to ever exist. The students are being forced to use a website that practically bullies them and mocks them for every single question that they get wrong, and it is disgusting and evil. How would you feel if a site mocked you and pointed fingers at you for being incorrect? It’s evil, and the site is especially evil for doing this kind of behavior and bullying students.

As a victim of this site, I hated every single second I was forced to use it. Every second of my ELA class was being forced to use this harmful learning website that, in the end, does not teach students practically anything. I hated every second of using it, and my friends did too. Some of them even got stuck on one topic basically forever and couldn’t complete the assignment we were given.

This site actually sparked student suicide rates up by 80% back in 2018.

By god, can we just let students use programs that are actually very engaging and fun all the while actually teaching kids the subjects? That is exactly what made Timez Attack popular in the first place - it taught kids mathematics in a fun and engaging way. Test results were over 200% higher than regular test results (around 95% for most students). And you wanna know why? Because it was fun all while actually teaching kids the subject. And that game was made by veteran game developers who worked on some of the most iconic games from the PlayStation 2, so Big Brainz definitely had experience with game development. But no! We can’t have any sence of “fun” in school, so we’re going to instead force students onto these crappy websites that do nothing but hurt students’ self esteem and mental state. And these sites don’t actually make anything better, they make things worse! All that sites like NoRedInk do is cause bad student behavior and it only further decreases test scores and kills grades. Why can’t we have fun and engaging ways to learn topics in school? Why do we have to keep using these sites that do nothing but bully and ridicule students? I truly hate the mindset of “no fun allowed at school, let’s force you onto this website that bullies you for getting a single question wrong, that will definitely solve the problem”. Come on! Let’s get crap like Timez Attack and Prodigy again. Stop forcing students onto these websites that do nothing to improve scores and bully students. It’s the exact same reason why students hate IXL. Stop, think for a second, America.

NoRedInk is a horrible learning application that causes bad student behavior, and frustrates a ton of students. Being a victim of this site, I say that we need to band together, as one, and say that we’ve had enough. We’ve had enough of putting up with this broken and unforgiving site and its harsh and unforgiving penalty system. This site either must be banned, or taken down entirely. Everyone hates the site and it must be done away with. Forever.