C&P'd

"The Professional Association of Teachers will be told at its meeting next week that the label of failure"

What a bunch of deluded pussies! Someone needs to have a good look at "Bill Gate's Rules For Children"

       RULE 1: Life is not fair - get used to it.

       RULE 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

       RULE 3: You will NOT make 50 thousand dollars a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice president with a car phone, until you earn both.

       RULE 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

       RULE 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping - they called it opportunity.

       RULE 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

       RULE 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

       RULE 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not.
In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

       RULE 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time.

       RULE 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

       RULE 11: Be nice to the nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.



Was it George Carlin who said, "Kids are like any other group of people... very few winners at the top... whole lotta losers at the bottom."

In accordance to Rule #1 Dennis Leary said "Life sucks, get a f-king helmet!" Put that up in glow-in-the-dark letters over the bed of your "minimally exceptional" kid who is enjoying the fruits of his "deferred success" because he "just hasn't succeeded yet"... Might help give him a little perspective on the Real World...

Check your dictionary Especially #1, 2 and 3...

fail
v. failed, fail·ing, fails
v. intr.

   1. To prove deficient or lacking; perform ineffectively or inadequately: failed to fulfill their promises; failed in their attempt to reach the summit.
   2. To be unsuccessful: an experiment that failed.
   3. To receive an academic grade below the acceptable minimum.
   4. To prove insufficient in quantity or duration; give out: The water supply failed during the drought.
   5. To decline, as in strength or effectiveness: The patient's heart began to fail.
   6. To cease functioning properly: The engine failed.
   7. To give way or be made otherwise useless as a result of excessive strain: The rusted girders failed and caused the bridge to collapse.
   8. To become bankrupt or insolvent: Their business failed during the last recession.

Provided your success wasn't deferred when you were supposed to be learning to read...

"do not necessarily achieve success first time"
Succeed... that's the word this blatherskite is looking for... you don't 'achieve success'... you succeed... Or you fail... Just cause you change the language, doesn't mean you change the thing... 'Post Traumatic Stress Disorder' still walks, swims and quacks like 'Shell Shock'... And when they called it Shell Shock, a lot of the guys who needed it got good help dealing with it...

These are the same kind of self-important, over-educated, under-intelligent people that want to call a hurricane a "vertical, circular wind disturbance", cause they THINK it makes them sound like they know what they're talking about.