Teachers call for use of "fail" to stop in schools

According to the Shropshire Star tonight, a group of teachers are calling for the use of the word "fail" to be abolished in schools. Apparently, telling kids they're failures in class could put them off education for life. They propose the alternative wording of "deferred success".

How unbelievebly bloody ridiculous. Deferred success? What (excuse my Anglo-Saxon) the fuck is that supposed to achieve? If a child fails a test they have failed. They haven't deferred their success. They haven't decided to take their success another time, they have failed the damn test.

This is the kind of thinking that has stopped school sports days from giving out prizes to winners in case it makes children competitive. The school my kids go to at the moment said this year will probably be the last year they are allowed to hold a sports day because they expect new guidelines to put a stop to them.

If we don't teach our kids to be competitive when they're children, how the hell are they supposed to achieve anything when they are older?

I know what is best for my children, the government needs to stop playing at mummies and daddies.