{"id":13303,"date":"2005-07-21T23:12:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-21T23:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/07\/21\/british-teachers-propose-banning-the-term-fail\/"},"modified":"2005-07-21T23:12:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-21T23:12:00","slug":"british-teachers-propose-banning-the-term-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/07\/21\/british-teachers-propose-banning-the-term-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"British Teachers Propose Banning The Term &#8220;Fail&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to rant about the dumbing down of the American educational system, but this story is actually about the British. Apparently some members of the Professional Association of Teachers are arguing that &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/britain_failure_dc;_ylt=AtDZ2_MuujD0n8drrl2X0fSs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3ODdxdHBhBHNlYwM5NjQ-\" target=\"_blank\">The word &lsquo;fail&rsquo; should be banned from use in British classrooms<\/a> and replaced with the phrase &#8216;deferred success&rsquo; to avoid demoralizing pupils.&rdquo;  And I thought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/2004\/08\/purple-is-new-red.html\" target=\"_blank\">purple markers were bad<\/a>&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">thanks to Chris for the link<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/stupid\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">stupid<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/rant\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">rant<\/a> <\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-112194403538491733?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to rant about the dumbing down of the American educational system, but this story is actually about the British. Apparently some members of the Professional Association of Teachers are arguing that &ldquo;The word &lsquo;fail&rsquo; should be banned from use in British classrooms and replaced with the phrase &#8216;deferred success&rsquo; to avoid demoralizing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/07\/21\/british-teachers-propose-banning-the-term-fail\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;British Teachers Propose Banning The Term &#8220;Fail&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-13303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}