British Teachers Want To Ban The “F” Word

Unfortunately, the "F" word is question isn’t the all too common one. That word will likely remain all too common.

No, it seems that many UK teachers are as nutty–excuse me–as barmy as many US teachers.

The "F" word that they want to ban from the classroom is "Fail."

That word could be too traumatic for the wee ones, so instead, the teachers making the proposal wish to speak of students having "deferred success."

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It’ll be interesting if this passes and they start to be really rigorous in shielding the children from the "F" word.

It’d mean teaching them that the Nazis had deferred success in their takeover of Europe.

Considering the current state of the European Union, that might not be inaccurate.

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

12 thoughts on “British Teachers Want To Ban The “F” Word”

  1. “deferred success.”
    That’s hilarious. I’ll have to remember that line when I’m trying to cheer up the students I fail who come to me begging me to pass them.
    🙂
    Thomas Sowell had a couple of good articles on teaching recently:
    http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts20050719.shtml
    http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts20050720.shtml
    Speaking about the Nazis taking over Europe, recently Dutch doctors have been euthanizing children, and I read on a blog somewhere that they hung a few Nazi doctors in Nuremburg for that very crime. Not sure if this is true or not. Anyone know? If so, this blogger said sarcastically that the Dutch should apologize for the hangings and admit that the Nazis were right, if they are now saying that child euthanasia is okay.
    We Canadians like to keep reminding ourselves about how we liberated Holland from the Nazis in WWII, but now look at what both of us have become. Canada is very much like Holland in many ways, maybe about 20 years behind (and catching up fast). I have no doubt that child euthanasia is on its way here too.

  2. Well, I feel so much safer thinking of all the deferred successes Europe and America have had in preventing terrorist attacks. Heaven help us…

  3. And yet, one muses, is not the very word “success” in and of itself redolent of value judgement? A modest proposal: let there be no grade other than “average”, and let both the A and the F students be awarded the rating of “deferred average”, thereby combatting both low self-esteem and vile elitism in one blow.

  4. Gee . . . maybe I’ll just let my boss know that I’d really like to spend more time catching up with blogs on the internet at work rather than actually doing my job. Tell him I’m just deferring my success.
    Anyone know how to apply for unemployment? 😉

  6. They already banned the use of the phrase “brainstorm” over there because it might offend epileptic people. Instead, people are required to say, “thought shower.”
    Frankly, if I were epileptic I would be offended that these people are acting like I’m someone who can’t take care of myself and needs defending.

  7. LOL, Brad!
    And – “thought shower”? No . . . must resist . . . the comedy is . . . just too . . . easy . . .

  9. Hey, I like that idea! If we see things that way, then there are no poor people in the world… they’re only “deferred millonaires”. Neat. No more money for charities from me. And no, I’m not greedy… I’m just a “deferred phylantropic”.

  10. Incidentally, for those who think that things were great under Margret Thatcher, I should mention that as a member of parliament she was instrumental in getting abortion and homosexuality legalized.

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