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would have thought that teachers at least could understand the difference between the government which makes policy and the Armed Forces who have to carry it. You would have thought so. . . . but then we are talking about teachers here and we know that they're not the brightest buttons in the box.
Motion 55 at the National Union of Teachers (NUT) 2008 Conference states: Conference believes that teachers and schools should not be conduits for either the dissemination of MoD propaganda or the recruitment of military personnel.
It is interesting that the NUT donates £500,000 each year to the Trades Union Congress (Motion 18) and it is the TUC that bankrolls the Labour Party. Also, in an House of Commons 'Social Background of MPs' survey carried out in 2005, a quarter of Labour MPs admit that they were teachers before they were elected to Parliament. [Indeed, the old adage Those that can, do; those that can't, teach, could run on and those that can't teach become Labour MPs.] So one way or another the teaching profession is heavily implicated in the Labour Government's policy of sending the Armed Forces to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Concepts of civic responsibility, heritage, tradition and national pride are anathema to the teaching profession; they ridicule such notions. Instead teachers have been busy rewriting British history to fit in with their 'ideology' which aspires to a withering away of the state. Their revisionism is aimed at undermining traditional British values and denigrating our past.
There is no group of men and women in Britain today who embody the ideal of public service more completely than members of our Armed Forces. What teachers should be doing is inviting servicemen and women into the classroom to serve as role models, to show the kids what's meant by commitment, pride, discipline, loyalty, duty, honour and courage, the very virtues that teachers have long been deriding. It is this derision that has been fueling the anti-social behaviour that is now so prevalent on our streets and for which teachers must bear a high degree of responsibility.
would have thought that teachers at least could understand the difference between the government which makes policy and the Armed Forces who have to carry it. You would have thought so. . . . but then we are talking about teachers here and we know that they're not the brightest buttons in the box.Motion 55 at the National Union of Teachers (NUT) 2008 Conference states: Conference believes that teachers and schools should not be conduits for either the dissemination of MoD propaganda or the recruitment of military personnel.
It is interesting that the NUT donates £500,000 each year to the Trades Union Congress (Motion 18) and it is the TUC that bankrolls the Labour Party. Also, in an House of Commons 'Social Background of MPs' survey carried out in 2005, a quarter of Labour MPs admit that they were teachers before they were elected to Parliament. [Indeed, the old adage Those that can, do; those that can't, teach, could run on and those that can't teach become Labour MPs.] So one way or another the teaching profession is heavily implicated in the Labour Government's policy of sending the Armed Forces to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Concepts of civic responsibility, heritage, tradition and national pride are anathema to the teaching profession; they ridicule such notions. Instead teachers have been busy rewriting British history to fit in with their 'ideology' which aspires to a withering away of the state. Their revisionism is aimed at undermining traditional British values and denigrating our past.
There is no group of men and women in Britain today who embody the ideal of public service more completely than members of our Armed Forces. What teachers should be doing is inviting servicemen and women into the classroom to serve as role models, to show the kids what's meant by commitment, pride, discipline, loyalty, duty, honour and courage, the very virtues that teachers have long been deriding. It is this derision that has been fueling the anti-social behaviour that is now so prevalent on our streets and for which teachers must bear a high degree of responsibility.
Link> This is London: Row as teachers call for ban on army 'pro-war propaganda' recruitment leaflets in schools
Link> NUT Annual Conference: Conference Motions (sic)
Link> Defence Dynamics (NB not the link as quoted by the NUT above; they got it wrong of course)
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