Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Educationese

I read this on another blog's comments: "My school had meetings this week to brainstorm ideas for ways to incentivize our sophomores to care about the CAHSEE."

Um, maybe they could start by eliminating words like "incentivize"?

3 comments:

  1. We professionally-developed this week. Oops, can't make that a verb. A verb implies action.......

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  2. I think maybe "motivate" was the word they were looking for. Could meetings like this be done away with entirely if administrators were each given a thesaurus?

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  3. No, Silly.
    They'd just come up with a new set of educationese.

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