Please don't do this here.....
Teachers Want To Remove 'Failed' Word From Classroom
Teachers Propose Replacing 'Failed' With 'Deferred Success'
UPDATED: 3:49 pm EDT July 21, 2005
There soon could be another F-word that might be banned from classrooms in England -- the word "failed."
Some members of the Professional Association of Teachers say that telling students that they've failed can put them off learning for life. The teachers propose to replace the word "failed" with the phrase "deferred success."
Liz Beattie, a retired schoolteacher, pitched the proposal, saying that teachers should avoid labeling children as failures because they need encouragement, not labels.
"We are talking about young people who struggle to read, write and can't relate to other people," said Jean Gemmell, PAT general secretary. "These are things you cannot be allowed to fail at."
But not everybody is in love with the concept.
The United Kingdom's Education Secretary, Ruth Kelly, said that children must learn about success and failure in order to prepare themselves for adult life.
The teachers association will debate the proposal at their annual PAT conference next week.
If the motion is accepted, it will be made policy for their 35,000 members from preschool, elementary and middle schools across the United Kingdom.
I am sooo against this and really wish they wouldn't do this at all over in England...Sorry but that's the tough Mom in me coming out...After raising one son, and dealing with three others...and having to deal with kids in general...I can say one thing...Kids need to grow up by learning about failure...Now I am not talking about kids with true handicaps...or learning disabled...or mentally disabled kids...no I'm talking your basic average kid with the brains to do the work...They need to grow up and take their own knocks in life...it's how they grow and learn...Deffered Success....BLECH...IMHO...if said normal average kid failed...he obviously deserved it...and he's got to be the one to deal with it...Either he didn't listen to the teacher or just plain didn't do the work...it's that simple...
The one thing I have told my kids is that I will not and cannot hold thier hands about school work...they are old enough and smart enough to make sure assignments have been done and turned in...Oh I've had my share of problems in that area as well "I thought I had turned that in, or the teacher must have lost it" that really only gets a blank look from me that tells them I don't believe them...I've been down that road.
What's your opinion guys?????????
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I totally agree Tig! Becky was on "grounding" most of last year because she failed to "turn in" her school work. She's a very smart chickie, but what she did was just stupid! And though I know alot of her problems stemmed from my illness, I didn't allow her to use it as an excuse to slack on her schoolwork.
She has ( I HOPE!) seen the light. This year will be the test.
As for "failing", you have to learn about failing, in order to succeed. We all did, and we weren't treated like "china"- easily broken if hurt. So they must too, since the world is even tougher that when we came up!
Oh, puhleeez! All that will arm them with is confusion. Then they won't think they were fired from a job for not performing up to job expectations, they'd think it was just 'deferred employment'...
That's a good one Steph!!! I'd never have thought of that...
And KC I agree with you...Children are not china...they are actually more resilient then people give them credit for....
This doesn't surpise me in the least.
Remember what I was telling you about Dr.Moron and how children are not supposed to hear anything negative?
They think they are doing kids a favor by allowing them to think that they can do nothing wrong, all the while everybody gets in an uproar when they hear on the news about kids killing other kids over a pair of shoes or over a coat.
But yet they never seem to make the connection between this kind of P.C. bullshit and how kids are acting these days.
Stacy
I agree too. We're getting much too soft on kids. What happens when they finally grow up and realize that people fail in the real world? I think that will be a much more rude awakening than failing a middle school test. Things don't just get handed to you, you actually have to work for it.... that's what kids need to learn.
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