"A Child Does Not Fail, but Defers Success"

The above headline is an actual headline from a The Guardian article run in the UK recently. I kid you not. It seems that educators have determined that a child does not actually fail in school, but rather is deferring success to a later time. It is not clear whether or not the “deferring” is a conscious act or not.

“If your children come home with reports suggesting they have been asleep for most of the last school year, do not label them as failures. They have been merely "deferring success".”

“The Professional Association of Teachers will introduce a motion at an upcoming conference, “…it is time to delete the word 'fail' from the educational vocabulary, to be replaced with the concept of 'deferred success'."

It seems that the UK educators have failed in a very important human trait, common sense. But, perhaps they are simply deferring to a later time after they have destroyed another generation of students. What a convenient rationale for teachers to avoid personal responsibility for the lack of student progress. Ahhh, the sweet smell of liberalism.