‘Right you lot, fall in, how do we vote? We vote Labour!’
The Armed Forces will be drafted in to run state schools under plans to drive up discipline and respect in classrooms.
Ministers are in talks with defence chiefs about taking over a handful of schools and turning them into military academies. Alongside daily lessons, pupils would be expected to take part in activities such as drills, uniformed parades, weapons handling and adventure training.
The job of education is to prepare children and young people for the adult world, not to ruin their lives, or in this case, to desensitize them, to set them up for life in a draconian world where the law does not serve and protect, but punishes and destroys simply because it can.
I missed this snippet when it first appeared, buried as it was under a welter of information concerning how totally unfit our rulers are to act as role models.
Is this final act of a totalitarian government – to instill unthinking discipline in young minds.
‘Right you lot, fall in, how do we vote? We vote Labour!’
‘When do we vote’? ‘Every time we’re told to’.
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May 15, 2009 at 1:09 pm -
Oh I don’t know AR. Instilling values such as a healthy exercise regime, neatness of self and belongings, respect for higher ranks, working as part of a team and of course unquestioning obedience; what could possibly be wrong with that?
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May 15, 2009 at 2:21 pm -
As I commented on some other blog about this This is the Hitler Youth . The word Brownshirts is terribly redolent….
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May 16, 2009 at 12:29 am -
About bloody time! I have begged for this for years. I used to write to Jim’ll Fix It for this kind of thing.
Now if only we could get the Army to control the streets …………. instead of the current Half-Wit brigade that we currently use for a police force.
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May 16, 2009 at 12:06 pm -
We had a CCF at school. They still have one. They have nicer uniforms and better weapons than we had. Terrible. we had to put up with Lee Enfiend 303s, sten guns and bren guns. Thunderflashes instead of real handgrenades. I learned to shoot and to lead a unit. It was great fun. We did not have a commisar though. Curiously enough my schol masters encouraged……………wait for it…………thinking. Analysing. Synthesising. Critical thinking. Otherwise how can you write a meaningful essay with understand the often contradictory information? They were like that. I left there in 1971.
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May 16, 2009 at 1:28 pm -
In my day almost all the male (and some female) teachers had done service, and most of us went on to do the same. At the Elementary School I first attended PE meant drill as well as jumping about. It was the same in my father’s time. This does not mean good. What it does mean is that there was a clarity of language, structure, and meaning that was common. But behind that was a sense of both language and common purpose in a democratic context. If you simply apply military techniques to a situation that is fundamentally disordered, then all you get is an organised shambles. Like for example, The Retreat From Mons, or the Dieppe Raid, or the Last Days Of Basra.
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May 16, 2009 at 3:24 pm -
Isn’t that the Pope on the right?
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May 16, 2009 at 6:22 pm -
Pray do not don a different titfer, you look daringly dapper in your wind-bonnet.
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