It seems that the teachers union in England, the Professional Association of Teachers, is asking its members to avoid describing their students as clever or giving their students awards for being clever as to avoid causing the students to be bullied…for being clever. This is the same group that last year asked its members to replace the term ‘failure’ with ‘deferred success.’ You can read about it here.
Thus my life accomplishments have now been re-categorized.
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Next time I need a loan, I’ll tell the bank I’m ‘deferred rich.’