Well it had to happen

[datalas]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4697461.stm

I'm lost for words ....

sorry, I mean I'm vocabulaically deffered

[Budgie]

So, if you can't "fail" an exam then I assume you also can't "pass" one either so what's the point?

Remind me to bring this to the attention of MOT examiner next time I take the car in!!  :(scared):

[Andy the Landy]

Heard it on radio today - ridiculous - kids are too soft these days, bring back National Service

[TULL]

Total and utter rubbish, as a teacher and ex accademic ive seen education falling appart for years tests eg O levels getting easier pass rates getting higher, so now educationally challenged people shouldnt fail ?
Where is the value of the exam ? why bother with SATs the list goes on, its about time people got away from treating everybody with kid gloves, call it how it is . Education is in a mess,

[Range Rover Blues]

What about some praise for the pupils who manage success without deferment?  If we continually lower the standards to that of the lowest common denominator how can we expect to remain one of the world's leading counties?

Bring back technical college, if pupils can't suceed in accedemia let them learn the value of a good, honest vocation.  I think part of the reason we have probelms in schools is this myth that all pupils can be educated the same way and to the same standard.  By the time exams come around the damage is done.

[gords]

Failing, learning from it and doing better next time is how life is!

Non competitive sports days ... now there's another stupid idea Somebody does win, somebody does come last!

All it's going to do is generate soft, lazy, sponging lay-abouts

I, for one, will be doing my utmost to make my children competitive and have the desire to suceed and "do better". I don't want them living at home when they've grown up

[Bob696]

Yes, it is bonkers and it makes no ones life any easier. When a child knows they will get 'something' at the end it removes their incentive to try, they then become a discipline problem and effect all the other children in the class.

Currently the goverment has a policy of spreading the misery around (insisting that each school takes its share of malcontents) rather than dealing with the problem. Diluting the problem in this way makes it appear smaller than it actualy is.

[lowey]

So we offroaders or mudclubbers do not get hurt feelings or egos shattered I guess when we have (on the rare occasion of course :oops: ) a failed hillclimb.......

From now on it will be designated 'A Deferred Success Hillclimb'   8)

[TimM]

And in a similar manner getting stuck somewhere will be 'Defered progress'

I can see it now: "Whilst greenlaning this morning I made it through xyz pass without getting stuck once, I had a little deferred progress and the 1/4 mile route took some 8 hours."

Tim.