Moldy Peaches

The Professional Association of Teachers (PAT) has too much time on it's hands. The Association believes that the word "fail" should be banned from use in British classrooms and replaced with the phrase "deferred success" to avoid demoralizing pupils. They argue that telling pupils they have failed can put them off learning for life. The PAT said it would debate the proposal at a conference next week.

A spokesman for the group said it wanted to avoid labeling children. "We recognize that children do not necessarily achieve success first time," he said."But I recognize that we can't just strike a word from the dictionary," he said.

Great, just what we need for drug tests more whiggle room. No longer will people fail, but rather they will be just deferring success.