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>From: Jinx [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] 
>Sent: 22 July 2005 10:15
>To: pic microcontroller discussion list
>Subject: [OT] Bring on the wusses
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>
>Reuters, July 21, 2005, LONDON:
>
>Failed ? No, just 'deferred success'
>
>The word "fail" should be banned from use in British 
>classrooms and replaced with the phrase "deferred success" to 
>avoid demoralising 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 recognise 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
>in Buxton next week

We were discussing this in the office yesterday.  It is physicaly sickening that these lentil munching, PC do-gooders are even getting inches in the papers.  IMO we need to cull these idiots to ever have a chance of getting the G back in GB.

The "Campaign Against Political Correctness" ( http://www.capc.co.uk/ ) have simmilarly scathing views of these weak minded fools.

John Midgley, Co-Founder of the Campaign Against Political Correctness, said "This eminates from the "everyone must have prizes" school of thought which has bedeviled education for decades and, if adopted, would cause serious damage for future generations of our children.  If a child says that 2 plus 2 equals 5, it is suggested that this should not be called a "failure" but a "deferred success".  According to this theory, if Liverpool had not won the European Champions League or London the bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games these would not have been failures but deferred successes."

Regards

Mike

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