"The current system means teachers can fail children for as long as a year," he adds.

The teacher failed him and insisted that he attend summer school.

The teachers in the Fish Speaker schools never failed him.

The teacher fails him because he cannot make a shot in basketball.

If teachers are failing, then basic curriculum decisions must be taken from teaching staff.

Officials said 23 teachers failed to show up at Walton last week, and the school had to find substitutes.

His mother had spoken about this bullying, but the teachers failed to take it seriously.

The teacher has failed to respect the reality of this institution.

Others said the problem was that teachers had failed to learn the best ways to teach reading.

Both texts and teachers fail to make those "exceptions" clear to students.