Girls’ School Plans “Failure Week”

3:30 pm, February 5th | by Hillary Reinsberg

A top British girls’ school is planning a “Failure Week,” wherein the girls will be conditioned to deal with failure. Good preparation, or a too-negative outlook?

The whole thing seems to be the school’s headmistress’ idea, since she believes that young women need to learn to “fail well.” Failure Week will involve workshops and guest speakers, and screenings of clips of successful people talking about times they failed.

Teaching highly-ambitious students who are accustomed to success that it’s okay to fail may be an important lesson, but flat-out Failure Week seems a little too on-the-nose. Learning from your failures comes through the experience of actually failing. Much in the same way sex ed doesn’t teach anyone how to have good sex, I’m not sure Failure Week will teach anyone how to gracefully fail.

Plus, the whole preparing girls to fail thing just feels a little depressing.

[BBC]

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LJB57

So now Schools see their job as “conditioning” and not educating.
Why do these girls not know about failure, in the first place?
(someones been filling their heads with a lot of Femi-nazi nonsense.)

isn’t it after all the extreme left-wing school system, treating everyone on an equal basis, that is responsible for these delusional children.
http://twitter.com/BunnyHugCat Corina Dee

I think this is really important. Failure is inevitable. It won’t always be a big failure; sometimes it is little things like failing to get a job interview, failing to do the dishes or failing to wake up on time. Perfectionism is dangerous and counter-productive. I think it is a great idea to say that just because you failed at one thing, it does not make you a failure as a person.
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http://twitter.com/LauraDonovanUA Laura Donovan

Though “Failure Week” seems very negative, I think it’s important to send the message that it’s OK to lose sometimes. The world is so obsessed with success and getting ahead that a lot of people feel like failures for simply not being on top of their game all the time. It’s important to be comfortable with failure, but perhaps the week could have a different name!
Liz Horn

This week appears to be about encouraging the girls to take set backs in their stride. Too often we are discouraged from taking risks because of the fear of failure.
Jolim33

Jeezzz… get a life. This is about helping a child to cope in this world that is increasingly being demanding and failure is “swept under the carpet” and never mentioned. We all know taking risks and being able to address failure often leads to the biggest discoveries.
LJB57

Jeez… get some originality.
You make no sense, when did this obliviousness to failure start, and who started it?
The education system, about 30 years ago …right.
So now you want to put the people that caused the problem, in charge of fixing it.
Jolim33

Oh right… and your physco babble is soooo original.

The point here is that our children need to understand that its OK to take risks and to learn how to pick themselves up afterwards. Live with it sister as its a fact of life and sometimes in this very busy world this is forgotten.

At least the headmistress is trying something positive rather than sitting her behind and going with the flow.
LJB57

So who’s been teaching them that it’s not OK to fail.
that was my point.
Of course it’s OK to pick yourself up after bad luck, where would they get the idea, that it’s not.

You misunderstood my meaning completely!

I can’t stand people who point out typos or small spelling errors, BUT, it’s psycho NOT physco.

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