Sort of like calling impotence "Deferred Erection" Deferred to when and where is the question.

It would be funny if it wasn't so freakin' tragic.

What's so odd about this is that, throughout history, "failure," fully and explicitly labelled as such, has driven people to work harder, which really DOES turn the failure into "deferred success." Now, we'll give failure such a happy happy joy joy name that everyone will be complacent.

It seems to me that "failure" is the happy medium between telling kids, "You are a worthless pile of worm droppings," and, "Hey! No problemo! Here's a beer and a joint—chill out and have fun!"

Hey, worm droppings aren't worthless! Without them, compost has "deferred success".

Pthphthphtphth.

No wonder my students looked shocked when I tell them their first drafts are "wretched."

I do use purple ink instead of red, but only because I never read a comment written in red ink myself. I save the red ink for exams-BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Reminds me of an episode of Red Dwarf... where Rimmer meets his parallel-universe self "Ace". So the two Rimmers figure out where their lives diverged... and the loser Arnie Rimmer had been promoted to the next grade in grade school (where his mother had gotten a favor from the schoolmaster) and "Ace" had flunked out and had to repeat a grade.

Ace was so humiliated that he worked hard to do well, and did succeed, whereas Arnie always bitched and moaned that it was someone else's fault that he was such a fuck-up.

And thus ends today's sci-fi fable.

Ah, Red Dwarf... easily the worst opening and closing credits of any television show, EVER.

I simply cannot believe there is another person who will admit to having watched that show.

HEY!

Red Dwarf is better than Blake 7, at least.

(Speaks one who got the entire ouevre of Space 1999 on DVD for her husband for father's day...)

...and yeah, I've got all of Red Dwarf on tape.

Oldthinkers unbellyfeel political correctness.

Actually, this is a smart pre-emptive move -- I'm surprised our own educrats didn't think of it first. You see, this way, if the Brits ever enact a version of No Child Left Behind, and the testing shows that the school as a whole is failing, they can say "No, we're not failing to teach our students to read and write, we're just experiencing deferred success, so you can't cut our funding or shit-can our management."

I "deferred success" at potty training when I was two. My parents felt that it was best to just let me go wherever and whenever to preserve my fragile and impressionable ego.

To this day I still go Number 2 in my Spidey underoos. I may smell funny, but at least I have high self-esteem.

Breaking news from the left:

John Roberts is gay! Hypocrisy!

Hinge Thunder.

Funny isn't it brak, they think the Mary Cheney thing backfired cause they weren't "subtle" enough. They really don't understand this "sense of fairness" thing we suffer from.

Bunch of desperate dopes, that Left.

What is with using the word BANNED? Does that not have the connotation of censorship, book burning and racsim. I would b*n the use of banned also to be replaced with shitcanned.

When I came home with a C+ in penmanship, my mom took away my Nintendo playing privileges until my next report card.

Those nine weeks of eternal boredom brought my grade up, fo sho.

Check this out:

Criticizing Bush for exercising?

One of the dumbest things I've read in awhile. Right up there with the Post's style section criticing Roberts family for being too pretty.

Sorry for dumping links Ace.

Nothing can make kids more able to compete in the global market than to coddle them completely. We should now have teachers physically carry children from class to class, so they don't have to feel neglected by the need for physical movement.

According to your link brak, Karl Rove should be fired any day now. Being chubby and all.

Oh no, our educrats got that beat.
See what they do is label every slacker and moron special ed. Thus they aren't counted in the NCLB stats AND the schools get MORE money 'cause it costs more to educate the kids on the short (but growing) bus.

Just the next episode in the 'dumbing down' process in our public school systems. I think that some schools have already dropped letter grading.
Home schooling looks better all the time.

Good God, brak. That John Roberts link has to be one of the stupidest things I've read in a while. The Party of Tolerance certainly goes in for a lot of wholesale stereotyping, doesn't it?

brak,

Chait never fails to entertain. I thought the left wanted to sue Coca Cola off the planet and hit McD with a cholesterol tax? Didn't Bill Clinton team up with his cheeseburger buddy Mike Huckabee Arkansas a couple of months ago to declare war on child fat?

Perfect example of the left's inability to handle reality. If they can't wish inequality away...they will simply change the vocabulary.

Reminds me of the recent UN report on Darfur. Despite the fact that there are thousands of (non-muslim) being killed...they decided that there was no genocide taking place. How did they come to that conclusion? Well, you see, the first thing they did was to define, narrowly, exactly what "genocide" was. Then, lo and behold, there was no genocide taking place...because...by their definition it didn't qualify as genocide. Hence, instead of confronting a horrible issue...they simply "defined" it away. Move along folks...no genocide here...

As posted elsewhere,

"PAT: Deferring Success Since 1967"

Gee, the next time I 'm unssuccessful at rying to seduce a lady, I can just tell her, "Don't worry. It's just deferred success!"

The saddest thing about the topic of this thread is that, on the face of it, it's every bit as implausible and "an obvious hoax" as that moronic "paid for by George Soros" Karl Rove=KKK ad that Ace was snookered by...

...except that this is true. There seems to be no level of asshattery that the British Civil Service is incapable of sinking to.