Pupils 'cannot be called clever'

[Pondlife]

This is just PC brilliance

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/e...on/5241524.stm

My favorite bit:

Last year, the PAT voted to replace the word "failure" with "deferred success".

[DimPrawn]

Is this sort of tulip happening in Britain only or also in mainland Europe?

Are we the PC capital of the world?

(am I allowed to say that?)

[John Galt]

From the comments after the article "How about educating the pupils to judge achievement as cool?"

Good point

[threaded]

Is this sort of tulip happening in Britain only or also in mainland Europe?

Are we the PC capital of the world?

(am I allowed to say that?)

No, not at all. In fact in Denmark they have a TV series each year entitled "Denmarks Cleverest Child" and the local papers regularly have articles about who won the inter-schools spelling competitions, etc. etc. as well as sports event scores.