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<p>Slate</p>
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<p>You’re Not Stupid. You’re Slow.</p>
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<p>Teachers use a variety of words to describe failure. Here’s what they all mean.</p>
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I know a teacher—a great one, actually—who, in private, refers to his students as “bricks.” As in, “dumb as a brick.”</p>
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You almost never hear that level of candor among teachers, and not just because every parent’s got a lawyer on retainer. Teachers avoid words like stupid because they know how badly labels can sting, and how long the bruises linger. School shapes you, and no
teacher wants to leave scars.</p>
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<p>Full story:<br>
<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2013/08/stupid_is_not_the_same_thing_as_slow_all_the_words_teachers_use_to_describe.html">http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2013/08/stupid_is_not_the_same_thing_as_slow_all_the_words_teachers_use_to_describe.html</a></p>
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