»

[Spoonie]

This made me laugh out loud. taken from the Scotsman.com mailout:

Call to ban word 'failure' from schools
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."

fucking tremendous! it's not deferred success, it's not any kind of success. it's failure!!!

[Hardcore Mel]

that's immense! i deferred the success of my uni exams until the resits in august.

[Spoonie]

i'm sure you did that on purpose to keep your motivation high over the summer tho!

/x

[Hardcore Mel]

yeah, totally. :S

[pete_inthehills]

Cool!

that means I'm not bald, I'm folically challenged
I'm not a short arse, I'm height deferred
I'm not a letch, I'm mammarily aware.
I'm not a lazy git, I'm work procrastinated


Isn't PC great.

Pete

[daveofficer]

i saw someone on the news describing what they meant by deferred success and as a system it sounds okay but it sounds so ridiculous when you first hear about it. it sounded like it was kinda like the system we use at college whereby you get remediation chances when you fail a test by a couple of points.

[Spoonie]

there are far too many cases in education systems that i've been through where people get as many chances as they need to pass stuff and all the support the world can offer, so it gets to the stage that they're pretty much having the work done for them. what's the fucking point of that?! make assessments realistic yet challenging and don't let every cunt on this earth pass unless they deserve to. it's taking the piss!

it's like when people pull all kinds of shitty stunts to get extensions on deadlines, meanwhile the honest among us have to do the work when it's meant to be done. get an extension if you have a legitimate reason by all means, but don't exploit the system.

/x

[A Former Pisshead]

Banning the word 'failure' should really pepare kids for the harsh reality of everyday life... I propose a system of 'group sucsess' where everyone helps each other to attain the same level of sucsess so no-one has to do better than anyone else.

[Lester Burnham]

Originally Posted by Spoonie

there are far too many cases in education systems that i've been through where people get as many chances as they need to pass stuff and all the support the world can offer, so it gets to the stage that they're pretty much having the work done for them. what's the fucking point of that?! make assessments realistic yet challenging and don't let every cunt on this earth pass unless they deserve to. it's taking the piss!

it's like when people pull all kinds of shitty stunts to get extensions on deadlines, meanwhile the honest among us have to do the work when it's meant to be done. get an extension if you have a legitimate reason by all means, but don't exploit the system.

/x

agreed.

anyone outwith exceptional circumstance that fails.... deserved to fail.

I failed plenty of exams... I'm not thick I just didn't put in the work that's required. It's my own fault.

I don't get why people should basically be handed qualifiations.

[Lester Burnham]

Originally Posted by A Former Pisshead

Banning the word 'failure' should really pepare kids for the harsh reality of everyday life... I propose a system of 'group sucsess' where everyone helps each other to attain the same level of sucsess so no-one has to do better than anyone else.

Not exactly fair on the brightest kid though... it holds them back from the level of education they have the ability to achieve.