Everytime a student sucks at school, they get a DS

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

Teachers say no-one should 'fail'

Failure in tests can damage enthusiasm for school, say teachers
"Deferred success" should replace the idea of failure for low-achieving pupils, a teachers' organisation will hear at its annual conference.

The Professional Association of Teachers will be told next week the label of failure could undermine children's enthusiasm for school.

Delegates will also hear a condemnation of the phrase "happy slapping" for bullying recorded on phone cameras.

There will also be calls for better diction in children's television.

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'".

Demolish

She argues that repeated failure, such as in exams, can damage pupils' interest in learning.

Wesley Paxton, a member of the association's council, is supporting the motion - as he argues for a system that "tops up" rather than fails.

"If you engage a builder to build a 5-foot wall and he only does it 4' 9", you fetch him back.

"You don't demolish it and make him start all over again - he simply lays another course of bricks to 'top it up'.

"But failing an exam - especially if it involves repeating an entire year - does demolish and make you start again," said Mr Paxton.

"There is no virtue in doing anything twice in the pursuit of 'academic rigour'," he said.

"Elsewhere we applaud those who persevere, like marathon contestants who take days to complete. It's time we made the word 'fail' redundant and replaced it with 'please do a bit more'."

The association, one of the smaller organisations for teachers, will also hear a call to block the use of the term "happy slapping" - when the attacks recorded on phones should be labelled as either an assault or bullying.

And there will be a call for "the producers of children's programmes to consider and address the presentation, language and diction of those programmes".


Nintendo DS = Failure

This post has been edited by dustindemon on Jul 19 2005, 04:11 PM

I see nothing about a DS.

People have this very diluted idea of what failure can mean; and how it translates to your own personal success. It's obnoxious. Failing in college definitely is a very scary proposition indeed but, it's a reality too; not everyone blows through Calc I,II,III, Linear Algebra and the like on their first time through. Even art majors at state schools have to take some higher level math, science, and even computer science so... =X

I say, don't fret though; make some friends, get some help; attend tutorials... you can make it even if it will be a lot of hard work, it will be worth it in the end (in theory)

Instead of Geetting an F for failing, they get DS for DEFERRED SUCCESS.

Uh Nintendo wasn't the first to use that acronym. For one DS is used the MMBN series for "darksoul," though I'm sure it has other uses, long before that one came about.

...I was just making a joke. o.o

A woman said all men should die. HEY I GUESS WE SHOULD LISTEN TO HER.

school is for ass sucking childeren.

Teacher what does "DS" mean?
It means "Deferred success".
....what does that mean?
It means you got an extremley low grade on your test and you're coming to summer school.
...oh.... well I feel better knowning that I didn't "FAIL" the test.

There are stupid kids just like there are crazy people. Why does this culture feel like it needs to make everyone feel equal and special? Feed the underachievers to the lions.

Well, one thing's for sure; the only people who will fall for "deferred success" are the stupid kids... who tend to fail

reminds me of the excuse used in silvan commercials


"if your child is retarded, or .. 'just not challenged enough' "

NO, REALLY, I WOULD HAVE NEVER GUESSED

Yay, let's shelter kids in the interest of letting them feel good about themselves instead of letting them learn from their mistakes, that's SO much better! [/sarcasm]

Um...wow

Who will be more successful than you while you flip burgers.

Well that was some uneeded flaming right there..

By the way, I have left school WITH qualifications, and flipping burgers isn't my thing.. I flip fools.

That was not flaming. THIS was unneeded: "school is for ass sucking childeren."

O.o Is that REALLY the only reason why you were drawn to this topic?


Just say he/she failed. It's easier.
Saying Deferred Success, will probably just make they're little brains hurt more.

Failures have more to do with lazyness than intelligence.

Ok, so it was UNEEDED but thats my opinion.. school is ****e, theres so much more to life than that.

Personally I never went to school I used to bunk it, or as you yanky's would say I "played hookie."

"Failures have more to do with lazyness than intelligence."

That actually is so ****ing true.

This post has been edited by James Bradshaw Layfield on Jul 19 2005, 07:12 PM