'The difficulty is the point': teaching students how to really read

I couldn’t agree more. When I was a grad student I got admonished for marking students too hard on their math quizzes even though their answers weren’t just wrong they showed a complete lack of understanding of the basic math fundamentals required to answer the question. (Putting the height of a person was a negative number, etc)

I would give them a 0 on the question and I was told I should give them part marks for putting anything down.

One view that I’ve seen in people under 30 is that if they’re not provided with a clear set of checkboxes lighting the path to success then the failure to provide those checkboxes is itself a form of bias or elitism, because it increases the subjective component of evaluation, and this results in the current incumbents favoring others of their own socio-ethnic-gender background.