Comments (11)

• Michael A. Clem

  Hey, I like the term! Now I can say that my career has been a "deferred success", just like Andy Capp's...

  Published: July 27, 2005 8:09 AM

• Yancey Ward

  Of course, the real motivation for such idiocy is define out of existence the teachers' own failures- if students don't "fail", then teachers are "successful".

  Published: July 27, 2005 9:26 AM

• Allen Dalton

  This is nothing new. When I was serving on a university academic standards committee in the early 80s, there was a serious attempt to replace "F" and "Fail" with "DNP" for "Did Not Pass." Luckily we had enough people to squash that stupid idea.

  Published: July 27, 2005 11:20 AM

• Stefan Karlsson

  Left-liberals are a sensitive bunch-so you have to avoid using any words which could be considered negative. One liberal got very upset at the Paul Krugman commentary page when I at one point in a debate called people who live off others through the welfare state "welfare parasites". I need sensitivity training....

  Published: July 27, 2005 4:09 PM

• tz

  But officer, I just had "deferred success" at stopping for the light.

  So will they replace the "Do Not Pass" signs with "Defer your Passing"?
  

  Published: July 27, 2005 4:28 PM

• averros

  High time to PAT them on their heads and send to off to grow some brain tissue...

  I'm wondering why people are willing to tolerate that nonsense without challenging the right of people espousing such nonsense to shape the minds of their children?

  Published: July 27, 2005 5:40 PM

• Jason Kauppinen

  DNP? Sounds like somthing to do with kidney stones. :(

  Published: July 27, 2005 7:40 PM

• Joe LaBaw

  I wonder what the IRS would say if someone said, "it's not tax evasion, it's deferred payment."

  Published: July 27, 2005 10:15 PM

• Ryan Fuller

  Teaching group says the word "fail" is doubleplus ungood!

  Published: July 27, 2005 10:33 PM

• Ryan Fuller

  Teaching group says the word "fail" is doubleplus ungood!

  Published: July 27, 2005 10:33 PM

• billwald

  You all forget that the purpose of public "education" is to provide docile peons for the local labor market. The teachers sent their kids to private schools.

  Published: July 28, 2005 1:02 PM