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Should FAIL be banned from report cards?

So, NCERT wants to ban the word 'Fail' in student report cards and have unsatisfactory or repeat instead. It firmly believes that declaring a student 'Pass' or 'Fail' purely on the basis of a single three-hour exam is unfair, and that it should, in fact, be an overall assessment done over a period of a year. Besides, given the rising suicide rate among students, perhaps 'Fail' is too strong a word, feels NCERT.

Or the comments which follow. Like this !

Absolutely, the word "FAILED" is too strong.
The people who support the word "failed" how would be liked to be called "a failure" on your face?
We are all human beings who erred a lot, may be again, will.Who has the right to call an individual or pass a judgement about a person,as a failure for not making it in a three hour exam which you can clear by mugging up the chapters and vomiting it in an answer paper?
Failure is too strong a word, whose depressing depths, these guys wont understand;Till you are called a Failure.I wouldnt enjoy it, and I am sure any self respecting individual would share the same thoughts.

Now, there are problems with Indian education system, and they should addressed, but for heaven's sake splitting hairs over terminology ostensibly for its effect on children psychology is not one of them.

As alumnus of Kendriya Vidyalaya (and son of teacher in the same school), I have first hand experience of the misplaced priorities of the powers that be. It's a familiar scene, someone opines that the way students are being educated is not correct. There is agreement all over. People are sent on foreign junkets. Ideas are copied without any understanding of the purpose or needs. In the best case, these ideas are never followed and hence rendered harmless. Many times, however they do dig the hole deeper Indian education finds itself is in.

One such "bright" idea is to keep promoting students in primary. This being KV most of the parent don't give a hoot, which means teachers don't have to worry either. The result, when students enter secondary, many of them don't even have elementary knowledge of maths or language.

But all is good as long as degrees are churned, because India on her inexorable march towards her tryst with destiny needs degrees, and not education !