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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Yeah,I had "deferred success" with my marriage.
--deferred success is better than gagging, deferred or otherwise.
As a young child, I experienced "deferred success" far to often as I began to learn where the store was, only to be interupted by Mummy, wondering if I was back from the store yet?
ya' know, sometimes you gotta make a choice in life:
Plop it on the table
or just
GET OFF THE MEAT!
--thank you, thankyouverymuch....
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