Do u think this is back door national service?

Question

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1039762/Pushover-parents-blame-generation-children-lack-discipline-moral-boundaries-says-teachers-leader.html

O.K. so the piece starts with teachers acting as parents etc etc so I thought o.k. then read at the end.

"Cadet Service".

Answer 1

This is The Daily Mail you are reading.

This means that some grubby little fascist backbencher somewhere has had a totally unoriginal idea that is being reported by this pathetic little rag as fact...as usual.

Every 13 months i read this...regular as clockwork.

Answer 2

The truth of the matter is that they don't know what else to do. This is possibly one way of counteracting bad parenting and bullying. It does teach children all sorts of self discipline and how to interact socially. I'm all for it if it can be run and operated by decent people but theres no two ways about it - some who bat for the other side will have a vested interest and will try to infiltrate!

Answer 3

This is highly unlikely to go anywhere. First they will need sufficient teachers to form an "Officer Corps" and I'd not put most teachers in charge of a toilet brush!

Then each cadet force will need a full time quartermaster, who understands the maintenance of military uniforms and equipment. He wil need a couple of sidekicks to do the dirty bits.

Can you imagine your teaching staff poncing around in flower-power kit?

On top of this, how many liaison and training staff can the Armed Forces spare for this! especially in this day and age.

A pity though! I had great fun as a cadet! at the age of 13 I was firing rocket launchers, mortars real rifles and machine guns (we blew h**l out of the rooks at Camberley!) We smashed up a couple of Austin Champs (the fore runner of the Landrover). The Marines taught me 99 ways of killing a person, without breaking wind and the Royal Engineers showed me how to set demolition charges! (which I did as a hobby, blowing up a medieval bridge!....... at Varmer's request though......)

Now are we going to let the current generation of horrors loose like that?

Answer 4

There are a lot of young thugs that would benefit by national service, whether the armed services want them is another matter

Answer 5

The main Union for teachers is the NUT, Voice is a breakaway right-wing union as far as I can gather, which boasts that they are not affiliated to the TUC.  Watch them carefully and wait for more of this sort of c**p.

The NUT has always opposed militarism being introduced into schools.

Answer 6

Well considering that practically all discipline rights have been taken away from parents I would have some suspicion on the motives here.

However the schools are full of badly behaved children who have no idea out to relate to anything. The responsibility for this lies with the parents and not the schools and children who are loved and guided are it seems rare these days.