Fail

[ls317]

THE word "fail" should be deleted from the school vocabulary and replaced with the term "deferred success", the conference of a leading teaching union will hear next week.

Liz Beattie, a retired primary school teacher, will tell the annual conference of the Professional Association of Teachers (PAT) that being told they are a failure in class can put children off education for the rest of their lives.


http://news.scotsman.com/education.cfm?id=1654192005

[ironman202]

1. jesus... I'm Sorry Mrs. Smith, Johnny D.S. in all his subjects

He is marginally exceptional.

[ls317]

2. the dumbing down of kids

[chaska]

3. Ah, anti-intellectualism, right here at DU, whoda thunk it.

Sounds like a legitimate issue to me. Couldn't hurt to try their solution/treatment.

[SteppingRazor]

4. This changes nothing...

So instead of fail, it's a "D.S." The term "DS" will come to have the exact same connotation. This is just overly politically correct claptrap.

[paula777]

5. It didn't stop Bush

[globalvillage]

6. No admission of failure.

I guess little Johnny CAN be president some day.

[chaska]

7. Maybe if Bush had been able to break the cycle of failure earlier...

he wouldn't feel the need to overcompensate now.

It's these people's jobs to think about things like this and to try fix the problem. I won't second guess them. What's more, if they can't make the parents do the things needed to make the students better, they should, what, let them continue on in this cycle, doing nothing?

I didn't read the article, but I suspect it was written to push people's buttons. Einstein called it "traditional prejudices" I believe. Sorry, I won't be jerked around.