[Red Boots]

"Learners" instead of students.

This is rife in the education bureaucracy. I recently interviewed an educrat about a new charter school starting up in our area.

She went on and on about "learners". Finally I told her, " Learner is not a word. Go look it up in the dictionary; its not there."

What is wrong with using the word student ?

[Aquinasfan]

What is wrong with using the word student ?

Everyone knows what the word student means. To prove that you're a professional educator (or any other profession that depends heavily on BS), you have to come up with jargon, or new words for common things.

[bruinbirdman]

""Learners" instead of students."

"client"

yitbos