On the news today, there was a story that satisfactory would no longer be good enough for reports on school pupil behaviour.
Now unless I have it wrong, satisfactory means good enough in English. Time to readjust the score sheet, not redefine the language
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I agree. Satisfactory seems to have moved from 'good enough' to 'not quite good enough'. It's the same in terms of Ofsted reports. There's such a huge gap between satisfactory, good and outstanding that it's almost not satisfactory to get satisfactory. Bizarre.
Lake Wobegon - where all the children are above average.
Maybe OFSTED should change to categories to Good, Bad and Ugly. Think these categories would fit a lot of schools!!!
Are you going to suggest rating teachers as Good, Bad or Ugly too, Stephen?!!
This would never get past Scottish Education chiefs - where "no' bad" is a compliment much better than satisfactory!
Nice one, Liz.
The English scale ought to include:
mustn't grumble
could be worse
alright
good enough
and
now you're showing off.
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