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phh s a economist sunsuntribune news saturday aug 2005 still answer teachers say kinder gentler education by caroline grech staff writer never say fail every day teachers walk the fine line between encouraging and coddling students in many schools teachers no longer mark papers in red ink preferring less aggressive colours such as green or purple in york region teachers can decide for themselves what colour marker they use and they will keep a student who doesnt meet expectations back for a year but they are unlikely to say the student failed but does this kinder gentler approach prepare students for the real world richmond hill mother of two robin wilner says focusing on the positive is the only way stu dents will excel eveiy child has strengths and you need to encourage those strengths and you also need to encourage the areas that bill hogarth- education director says students are aware of what is expected of them they are not strong in mrs wilner said if you just tell a child theyve failed then the child is going to think why should even try when a teacher gives positive reinforcement on the students effort even if a he or she doesnt excel academically it can go a long way mrs wilner said if a student doesnt do well on a test if a teacher focuses on how they might be able to improve for the next test it gives the child a goal trie york region district school board doesnt hesitate to alter a problem to help a strug- gling student do better educa tion director bill hogarth said although it is not the pre ferred option students will still be held back if necessary he said students really do know whats expected of them mr hogarth said mr hogarth also disagrees with critics who say positive reinforcement does not prepare children for the real world i think its an old argument mr hogarth said in the business world com panies fail all the time mr hoga rth argued the business community is allowed to fail cibc just paid enron 24 billion is that not fail ure we have a lot of companies that are not meeting their finan cial expectations mr hogaitli said adding the board isnt just allowing students to coast man turns outstanding debt into online business site now receives 6000 hits a week by patrick mangion staff writer until about a year ago bruce wed- dels experience on the internet could best be described- as aimless and leisurely after running a local publishing and graphics company the past seven years the 49yearold newmarket business man seemed the most unlikely of entre preneurs to climb aboard the dot com bandwagon in fact it was a most unusual busi ness deal which spawned his ebusiness initiation mr weddels takeover of the website wwwsavingumoheyca essentially an electronic coupon servicewasnt sealed with a handshake or the usual legal wrangling one of my customers owed me 16000 it was clear i wasnt going to get a penny from him he said instead they negotiated so mr wed- del could take over the website at the lime mr weddel wasnt happy about the 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