Deferred Success set to be deferred success

[GaryKelly]

Teachers say no-one should 'fail'

Education Secretary Ruth Kelly has dismissed suggestions that the concept of "failure" should be removed from school in favour of "deferred success".
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Liz Beattie, a retired teacher, will call on the association's annual gathering in Buxton, Derbyshire, to "delete the word 'fail' from the educational vocabulary to be replaced with the concept of 'deferred success'".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4697461.stm

Un-believable. Fortunately my namesake (no relation) is possessed at least of *some* common sense.

Can you imagine it?

"How did you do in the exams?"
"Woohoo! I had a deferred success!"

Later...

"How did you get on with your driving test?"
"Woohoo! I had a deferred success!"

Later still...

"How did the job interview go?"
"Woohoo!!"
"Deferred success?"
"Yup!"

Much later...

Police Officer: "Please blow into this machine...that's good...now we wait for the results... I have to tell you sir that you have achieved a deferred success on the breathalyser test."
"Woohoo!!"

[jbarter]

I hope this scheme attains the deferred success it deserves.

[missy]

ah - we've had "proficiency reports" for years. They are sent home mid-term. I call them "deficiency reports" because you only have one sent hom if the kid if failing.

[Tyler]

ah - we've had "proficiency reports" for years. They are sent home mid-term. I call them "deficiency reports" because you only have one sent hom if the kid if failing.

Now its a deferrency report

[jsluder]

I don't like it; calling someone a "miserable deferred success" just doesn't have the same ring to it.

[The Weekenders]

In California we have gone through and come out of the outcome-based educational trend, thank goodness. Looks like its still percolatin' in Britain.

It's not what you learn, it's how good you feeeeeel about the learning process at the end that counts.

[Tyler]

In California we have gone through and come out of the outcome-based educational trend, thank goodness. Looks like its still percolatin' in Britain.

It's not what you learn, it's how good you feeeeeel about the learning process at the end that counts.

Arent techers banned from using red markers to grade papers there in Cali?

[The Weekenders]

In California we have gone through and come out of the outcome-based educational trend, thank goodness. Looks like its still percolatin' in Britain.

It's not what you learn, it's how good you feeeeeel about the learning process at the end that counts.

Arent techers banned from using red markers to grade papers there in Cali?

Not banned but ENCOURAGED not to.

Oh yeah, and here is a good one: In the Education Code for the whole State, it is illegal to give an African-American child a standardized IQ test. Anybody else is okay, tho.

[Tyler]

In California we have gone through and come out of the outcome-based educational trend, thank goodness. Looks like its still percolatin' in Britain.

It's not what you learn, it's how good you feeeeeel about the learning process at the end that counts.

Arent techers banned from using red markers to grade papers there in Cali?

Not banned but ENCOURAGED not to.

Oh yeah, and here is a good one: In the Education Code for the whole State, it is illegal to give an African-American child a standardized IQ test. Anybody else is okay, tho.

Do they get a special IQ test?

[The Weekenders]

No, it's not allowed, period. It's but one of the diagnostic tools available for a teacher but the fact that it's written into law is an interesting phenom.

[Tyler]

No, it's not allowed, period. It's but one of the diagnostic tools available for a teacher but the fact that it's written into law is an interesting phenom.

I thought you might say they can get a deffered test?

[jsluder]

... deffered test?

Been running that deferred spell-checker again, I see.

[Tyler]

... deffered test?

Been running that deferred spell-checker again, I see.

Arrrrrrr, deferred again!

[s1m0n]

All standardised testing is pretty much equally stupid, so I don't see any problem with using different tests for different groups, if that makes anyone at all happy.

~~

When I was in grade school, I got selected for some kinda weird standardised testing that went on for years as part of some sort of longitudinal study. These were a few afternoons of multiple-choice, mostly general knowlege tests every year, or maybe every term--I think each year we did the ones for our grade, the grade before and maybe the grade after.

I suspect I was selected because I was known to be good at tests, and my results would boost the school's scores or something.

Or maybe I'm overly conceited, and it was random.

Anyway, they kept going on about how these results didn't count.

So I got bored, and one year decided that it was more interesting to get every question wrong rather than right, so for the remainder the study--I think it ended about grade six--I'd carefully eliminate every option which had a possibility of being correct and instead colour in the little oval belonging to an answer I knew was wrong.

I don't know how my strategy affected the survey results. No one ever asked me about it, so I guess it was as anonymous as they promised.

[BrassBlower]

Oh yeah, and here is a good one: In the Education Code for the whole State, it is illegal to give an African-American child a standardized IQ test. Anybody else is okay, tho.

Deferred racism.