Online Teaching = One Step Toward Equality

Maintaining objectivity in grading is an impossible task when you know the student because you interact with them in the classroom everyday.  Sometimes, it is positive bias, where you know that the student tries with all of his being, so you automatically favor his paper or test.  Other times, it is a negative bias, where you know that the student only acts up in class, talks back, and disrespects, so you automatically desire to mark off for the slightest imperfection in his paper or test.  Either way, it is detrimental to the student, sometimes taking away or adding to his true grade due to teacher bias.
How do we avoid this?  Teachers could have the students identify themselves by a number, but the number will always be associated with a name.  After grading for even a week, the teacher will begin to remember the number and with what student that number is associated, leading back to the bias.  In an online classroom, though, the students do not have the behavioral problems that are present in the classroom, so a teacher does not have that bias toward them and can grade them more objectively than before.
Equality is something that our country has valued since we wanted to separate from Britain, and we have moved closer and closer toward it.  Yet, it is something that will always remain due to our sin nature. As humans, we have the tendency to treat certain people better than others.  Finding ways to decrease the inequality that occurs in schools is another step toward all people being treated the same, the way God intended for it to be.