I wouldn't even believe it if it wasn't from reuters because it's so pointless and idiotic. One of the main reasons why I hated sociology was because it's full fo do gooder bullshit ideas like this....


http://reuters.excite.com//article/2...AILURE-DC.html

LONDON (Reuters) - The word "fail" should be banned from use in British classrooms and replaced with the phrase "deferred success" to avoid demoralizing pupils, a group of teachers has proposed.

Members of the Professional Association of Teachers (PAT) argue that telling pupils they have failed can put them off learning for life.

A spokesman for the group said it wanted to avoid labeling children. "We recognize that children do not necessarily achieve success first time," he said.

"But I recognize that we can't just strike a word from the dictionary," he said.

The PAT said it would debate the proposal at a conference next week

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demoralising? I'd be more demoralised if my peers thought I wasn't able to cope with something like failing a test than actually failing it.

the opposite of passing is failing, if you do not pass something, you fail..... i don't think many kids lock themselves in a room for weeks because they get told they've failed a test or exam and I doubt changing it to deferred success (which isn't necesarilly true when someone might constantly fail, sorry i mean defer success) is going to make someone go... hmmm if my sucess is deferred then i should just work a bit harder next time.

This place is turning into a ****ing disney cartoon man.