The word "fail" should be banned from use in British classrooms and replaced with "deferred success" to avoid demoralizing pupils, says a group of teachers.

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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but u know what?
Fail and deffered r 2 different words entirely.u cant use deffered in place of failure.

Failure is failure.

When a child fails you, tell him straight to his face or he wouldnt know how bad he messed up.

God bless you Nike.

Go ahead and 'fail' your children at every opportunity so they'll know how bad they've messed up. And while you're at it, make sure you never, ever praise them so their heads will not get swollen. Amen!

Education Secretary Ruth Kelly has dismissed suggestions that the concept of "failure" should be removed from school in favour of "deferred success"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4697461.stm

A retired teacher has lost her fight to have the word "fail" replaced by "deferred success" in education speak.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/4724703.stm

Wow...this is like really serious. I know that calling someone a "failure" hurts, but at the same time, you just have to say the truth as it is. The truth they say, hurts.

the truth hurts,but we all have to be realistic"failure is failure"and
can never be in place of deffered sucess.

I believe that white people are over sensitive on issues. That's why their society if full of crazy happenings.If you fail an exam, it simply means that you didn't read for it and you failed,so play less and study more next. what's hurtful about that?

u damn rite white pple are..dey dont even want their kids to hav an F talk less of failure..dose kids were pampered..it gets on my nerves because most of dose kids are f**king dumb

Everyone can go bad at something at school, Though I have never actually failed anything due to it being bad, rather than to not doing it in the first place (stupid school make me do art) Which is different I suppose, so I think the word fail is still acceptable there.
As for just going badly in class, to fail in VCE (Victorian Certificate of Education) you have to get less than 25% in English (SAC (mini exam's) and the final exam (50%))
So unless your really stupid we don't here the word too often

o wel..i neva had to hear de word fail

Prior to one disastrous semester at OAU-Ife in which I actually missed 4 exams, the only time I ad failed an exam was in JSS 1 when I scored 39 (or 35) in French Language. Less than years and one lesson teacher later, in the WAEC JSCE, I scored an A in French Language.

cool..we on de same page

Oyinbo kids are dumb.. calling them a failure hurts them..and that's why it's good to call them failure.

yea..dey hav evrytin lol but dere are some that are kinda brainy but ugly..

Racist girls.

haha seun, this ain't racism.. The kids that are cute are dumb, and the ones that are brilliant are nerds. So i see no reason why the dumb ones shouldn't be told that they "FAILED".

yea..dat aint racist..white cant be brainy and cute at de same time sorry

hate to disapoint you then nike4luv

Nike that isn't fair?
Hidden-Hunter is white,He is nice too.
so mind your language becos u dey make some people vex !

oopsie..ok..um..soz den
its just de ones i seen dont hav de 2

So hunter is tryna say he's cute, white, and all brains? I will kill to be your girlfriend.

all without blowing my own trumpet so to speak

racism, interesting!

Nah not in this situation where we have a white kid with us
She understand

angela k:

racism, interesting!

yea..dey bring it..we finish it lol

gosh..i give em hell

Ahh u guys...

yea..we guys..we like sooo hot

hehe..

laughing competition??