TrueGravity
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jun 14, 2005
- Messages
- 549
* Lazy: Motivationally deficient.
* Fat: Horizontally challenged.
* Fail: Achieve a deficiency. (or now "deferred success" as you will see below)
* Dishonest: Ethically disoriented.
* Bald: Follicularly challenged.
* Clumsy: Uniquely coordinated.
* Body Odor: Nondiscretionary fragrance.
* Alive: Temporarily metabolically abled.
* Worst: Least best.
* Wrong: Differently logical.
* Ugly: Cosmetically different.
* Unemployed: Involuntarily leisured.
* Short: Vertically challenged.
* Dead: Living impaired.
* Vagrant: Nonspecifically destinationed individual.
* Spendthrift: Negative saver.
* Stoned: Chemically inconvenienced.
* Pregnant: Parasitically oppressed.
* Ignorant: Knowledge-based nonpossessor.
Now the following is actually True. I just saw this today. What a joke!!!!!
Replace the word "Fail" in schools with "Deferred Success".
Unbelievable!!!!! Kids are just coddled way too much these days. People are whacked!!!!
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.
* Fat: Horizontally challenged.
* Fail: Achieve a deficiency. (or now "deferred success" as you will see below)
* Dishonest: Ethically disoriented.
* Bald: Follicularly challenged.
* Clumsy: Uniquely coordinated.
* Body Odor: Nondiscretionary fragrance.
* Alive: Temporarily metabolically abled.
* Worst: Least best.
* Wrong: Differently logical.
* Ugly: Cosmetically different.
* Unemployed: Involuntarily leisured.
* Short: Vertically challenged.
* Dead: Living impaired.
* Vagrant: Nonspecifically destinationed individual.
* Spendthrift: Negative saver.
* Stoned: Chemically inconvenienced.
* Pregnant: Parasitically oppressed.
* Ignorant: Knowledge-based nonpossessor.
Now the following is actually True. I just saw this today. What a joke!!!!!
Replace the word "Fail" in schools with "Deferred Success".
Unbelievable!!!!! Kids are just coddled way too much these days. People are whacked!!!! 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.
