Teaching group to consider banning word “fail,” to be replaced with the phrase “deferred success” to avoid demoralising pupils, a group of teachers has proposed.
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Hey, I like the term! Now I can say that my career has been a “deferred success”, just like Andy Capp’s…
Of course, the real motivation for such idiocy is define out of existence the teachers’ own failures- if students don’t “fail”, then teachers are “successful”.
This is nothing new. When I was serving on a university academic standards committee in the early 80s, there was a serious attempt to replace “F” and “Fail” with “DNP” for “Did Not Pass.” Luckily we had enough people to squash that stupid idea.
Left-liberals are a sensitive bunch-so you have to avoid using any words which could be considered negative. One liberal got very upset at the Paul Krugman commentary page when I at one point in a debate called people who live off others through the welfare state “welfare parasites”. I need sensitivity training….
But officer, I just had “deferred success” at stopping for the light.
So will they replace the “Do Not Pass” signs with “Defer your Passing”?
High time to PAT them on their heads and send to off to grow some brain tissue…
I’m wondering why people are willing to tolerate that nonsense without challenging the right of people espousing such nonsense to shape the minds of their children?
DNP? Sounds like somthing to do with kidney stones.
I wonder what the IRS would say if someone said, “it’s not tax evasion, it’s deferred payment.”
Teaching group says the word “fail” is doubleplus ungood!
Teaching group says the word “fail” is doubleplus ungood!
You all forget that the purpose of public “education” is to provide docile peons for the local labor market. The teachers sent their kids to private schools.
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