When is a school not a school?

[Doggy Styles]

When it's a 'place for learning'

Primary school drops word school from name as 'too negative'

"We decided from an early stage we didn't want to use the word 'school', this is Watercliffe Meadow, a place for learning," said Linda Kingdon, the head teacher.

What kind of a f**ked up country are we becoming?

[Gonzo]

When it's a 'place for learning'

Primary school drops word school from name as 'too negative'
What kind of a f**ked up country are we becoming?

The definition of a school is a place that people go to be educated.

It is just like any project. They know at this stage that some of the deliverables (in this case, kids being educated) are not going to be achieved, so they are removing them from the scope.

Instead, by redifining it as a place that children turn up to, they can claim that the objectives have all been met, despite the fact that the children leave uneducated.

[threaded]

The definition of a school is a place that people go to be educated.

It is just like any project. They know at this stage that some of the deliverables (in this case, kids being educated) are not going to be achieved, so they are removing them from the scope.

Instead, by redifining it as a place that children turn up to, they can claim that the objectives have all been met, despite the fact that the children leave uneducated.

Darn it, that's what I was going to say.

WHS.

[OwlHoot]

Whs++.

[PM-Junkie]

I find it deeply offensive that children who go to school are called "kids" or "children". I insist that they be called "education receptor units"...

[Board Game Geek]

Perhaps that's where we are all going wrong.

I mean, you cannot really include the jobless as part of the jobless number totals, can you ?

After all, looking for a job is a job in and of itself, so by virtue, they cannot count as "jobless" since they already have a job.

That will get the employment figures looking a bit more rosy.

As for NHS Patients. It could be argued, very successfuly, by people way more clever than anyone on this board, and therefore their opinion would have to stand, that the word patient implies someone who is unwell and has medical issues requiring treatment.

However, we are all dying the moment we are born, and you cannot get much worse than that, which renders any other ailments somewhat superflouous by nature.

Bang...no one classifies as a patient anymore. So no more waiting lists.

(Apologies if anyone has suffered a bereavement recently. I try not to make light of death, but let's face it, if you don't do it now, you'd not exactly going to get a chance to do it when you're not here are you ?)

Call them "Healthcare Deciders". They don't have to go to the doctor do they ? There are other options. Again, you shift the onus.

This malarkey seems easy...

[Call Me Arbuthnot]

Silly f**kers aren't they. The word cancer has far more negative connotations, so let's call it fluffy-bunny.