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A child does not fail, but "defers success"
The Guardian ^
| Wednesday July 20, 2005
| David Ward and Matthew Taylor
Posted on 07/22/2005 1:30:31 AM PDT by NixonsAngryGhost
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Multicultural PC Insanity
To: NixonsAngryGhost
A child does not fail, but defers success NEA's exact position.
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posted on
07/22/2005 1:32:57 AM PDT
by
ncountylee
(Dead terrorists smell like victory)
To: NixonsAngryGhost
Soooooooooo .. she wasn't born a loser .. it was just delayed success??
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posted on
07/22/2005 1:36:23 AM PDT
by
Mo1
To: NixonsAngryGhost
Sow's ear to silk purse ploy.
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posted on
07/22/2005 1:39:26 AM PDT
by
carumba
To: NixonsAngryGhost
Don't forget...
2 + 2 = 5
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posted on
07/22/2005 1:44:00 AM PDT
by
BigSkyFreeper
(Liberalism is a form of insanity)
To: NixonsAngryGhost
Insanity is right.
So, if a person never succeeds at anything worthwhile and dies are they a failure THEN?
Too bad that not enough public scorn for this mush-headed utopian mental masturbation will be heaped on this miserable excuse for a teacher.
To: NixonsAngryGhost
Fail is one syllable. You need something catchy, short, and imaginative. Lets work it 'til we get it right. I say you can just make up a new word. Flooble. Squanty. Hyboid. Blew it. If we all put our heads together we can come up with something.
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posted on
07/22/2005 1:45:05 AM PDT
by
carumba
To: NixonsAngryGhost
Multicultural PC Insanity True, but both in the UK and in the USA, insanity is winning the battle.
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posted on
07/22/2005 1:52:21 AM PDT
by
Dont_Tread_On_Me_888
(John Kerry: 3 fake Purple Hearts. George Bush: one REAL heart of gold.)
To: NixonsAngryGhost
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posted on
07/22/2005 1:59:49 AM PDT
by
SoDak
To: NixonsAngryGhost
When the child grows up, and he's a Freakin Failure, will he tell his boss to keep him on the job because of his "Defers success" stage will be over soon? :P
A stone is a stone, a brick is a brick, a failure is what it is, a "F"ailure. Not wanting to be a failure or looser is what made me what i am, sucessful and proud.
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posted on
07/22/2005 2:01:02 AM PDT
by
1FASTGLOCK45
(FreeRepublic: More fun than watching Dem'Rats drown like Turkeys in the rain! ! !)
To: NixonsAngryGhost
So, in the same vein, the Dims have "deferred" any success on railroading Karl Rove!
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posted on
07/22/2005 2:20:57 AM PDT
by
JRios1968
(No Sir, I don't like it.)
To: NixonsAngryGhost
[A child does not fail, but defers success]
This statement is an excellent example of "deferred wisdom".
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posted on
07/22/2005 2:41:49 AM PDT
by
spinestein
( "Gentlemen! We've got to do something to save our phoney baloney jobs!" - Gov LePetomaine)
To: NixonsAngryGhost
And if he is really, really hopeless, he is "deferring success indefinitely"...
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posted on
07/22/2005 2:41:57 AM PDT
by
gridlock
(ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
To: NixonsAngryGhost
Negative things have negative words attached to them. Failing is a bad thing, so "failure" is a bad word. Inside of six months "deferred success" or "DS" will be as dicouraging a word as "failure" ever was.
The way to eliminate the stigma associated with failure is to eliminate failure. But the teachers union is not enthusiastic about that, so they just invent new terms to obscure the truth.
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posted on
07/22/2005 2:47:12 AM PDT
by
gridlock
(ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
To: NixonsAngryGhost
George Carlin notes that the label "minimally exceptional" is often used.
as in:
SCHOOL COUNSELOR -- "Your child is minimally exceptional."
CHILD'S MOM -- "Oh, Thank God for that!"
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posted on
07/22/2005 2:49:31 AM PDT
by
spinestein
( "Gentlemen! We've got to do something to save our phoney baloney jobs!" - Gov LePetomaine)
To: BigSkyFreeper
This would be funny if it weren't so true and so sad!
I have some state "youth" workers at my place and it's shocking at how mis-informed they are. These are good kids, smart and hard workers. Yesterday I corrected a young one who told me that Japan has a huge unliveable area and has never recovered from our bomb dropped right after Pearl Harbor. I could hear the little wheels turning in her mind as we discussed the real facts. Makes me wonder if they ever had to read a book in school (or if their books were full of revisionist history!!)
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posted on
07/22/2005 2:57:54 AM PDT
by
chgomac
To: NixonsAngryGhost
More psycobabble bullsqueeze from the educrats.
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posted on
07/22/2005 2:59:40 AM PDT
by
clee1
(We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
To: NixonsAngryGhost
This should have has the warning Barf alert attached to it :-(
more politically correct celebrations of mediocrity
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posted on
07/22/2005 3:00:10 AM PDT
by
Kelly_2000
(Because they stand on a wall and say nothing is going to hurt you tonight. Not on my watch)
To: NixonsAngryGhost
Liberals do not like some people being more successful or accomplished than others. Their philosophy is one in which every one attains a level of middling mediocrity. That way no stands out - and no one is a failure either.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
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posted on
07/22/2005 3:00:13 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: NixonsAngryGhost
I hoped that this madness was restricted to our country. I'm sorry to see that I'm wrong.
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posted on
07/22/2005 3:20:28 AM PDT
by
markomalley
(Vivat Iesus!)
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