I've been naturalised since 1988, but I can't help but feel more than a trace of affection for the land of my Birth. So this story saddens me.
From the BBC :
A retired teacher has lost her fight to have the word "fail" replaced by "deferred success" in education speak.All well and good. Yes, they'd be a laughing-stock if they did this. But the article then goes on:
Liz Beattie, from Ipswich, Suffolk, put forward the motion at the Professional Association of Teachers' conference.
She argued many children were put off learning for life after being labelled "failures" but her colleagues rejected the move as "a foot-in-mouth motion".
Ian Pringle, from Canvey Island, Essex, said: "We'll be ridiculed. Please do not vote for this motion."
Another delegate said failure was not a word used in schools anyway these days.You see, it's not the concept they're against : just what they're doing being found out and them subject to deserved public ridicule.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Anonymous commenters - please add a signature (doesn't have to be your real name) on each post of yours. Anne O'Namus, Norm D. Ploom, Angry from Kent, Demosthenes, or even your real initials, it doesn't matter.
Commenters are expected to be polite to each other, but the same standard doesn't apply to comments regarding me.
Australian commenters are very very strongly advised to publish anonymously. Sydney alone has more defamation actions than the entire USA and UK. Nearly double that of the UK in fact.
As Google does not reliably inform me that a comment has been posted, and I have no control over first publication, I assert that all comments are innocently disseminated under the NSW DEFAMATION ACT 2005 - SECT 32 and similar acts.