I Thought I Was Paranoid

"I'll be assigning each of you a randomly-generated six-digit number. You'll write this number on your tests instead of your names, and that way I won't be unduly biased when I'm grading them."

There are like 11 of us in the class.

"Not to rain on your parade, Professor, but won't you recognize our handwriting?"

"Ah, if I do I do - I'm afraid I can't help that!"

At first I thought he was completely nuts, but now that I'm revisiting the idea, it doesn't seem half-bad. Maybe I'll implement something like that for my students.