Creating Dumb, Wimpy Kids
Coming soon to a school near you…
Spelling tests for pupils at a primary school in Gloucestershire have been banned because they are "unnecessarily distressing" for the children.
Whitminster Endowed Church of England Primary School, near Stroud, has decided not to give pupils lists of words to learn by rote as homework.
Headmistress Debbie Marklove said there was a risk that children would feel a "sense of failure" if, having learned the words at home, they were unable to spell them at school the next day.
Most of us have learned from failure. One would think an headmistress would want her children to learn.
Then again, maybe not.
October 2nd, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Thier "sense of failure" will come when they try to fill out a job application. Give them gold stars and make them feel warm and fuzzy. The school of hard knocks will be the shocker for these kids that are being abused by a nonfunctional education system.
October 2nd, 2008 at 6:31 pm
When all kids are made to feel special, they all become ordinary.
The wheels of socialism go round and round…..
October 2nd, 2008 at 7:00 pm
COOL!! Now their kids will be dumber than our kids.
October 2nd, 2008 at 7:13 pm
The schools remind us that they think every child is special.
Of course, in educational parlance, "Special" means retarded.
October 2nd, 2008 at 11:49 pm
If you never try, then you can't fail. That what I always say.
October 3rd, 2008 at 7:48 am
WOW, The Brits are turning into a bunch of Pussies. The French had better watch out.
October 3rd, 2008 at 9:07 am
This seems similar to amn episode of the simpsons when Lisa discovers the math course for girls was about self-assurance
October 3rd, 2008 at 12:23 pm
kingtut, don't gloat about this, our kids are already there, Britanistan is only playing catch-up.
Hell, our adults can't even spell anymore.
October 3rd, 2008 at 12:57 pm
One of my biggest pet peeves is people that use email or any other written medium for business or even everyday life and have horrible grammar and spelling. When pointed out to them their response is: "I don't care, I'm not an English major". They don't understand that they lose respect and purvey a lower sense of intelligence to the reader, who in turn may treat them differently or chose not to utilize them for future dealings or work.