Recruiting for the army in schools?
A motion at the National Union of Teachers annual conference wants a campaign to stop all military “recruitment” in schools. It says the Ministry of Defence is luring youngsters, often from deprived areas, into the armed forces.
Last year, Scotland’s biggest teaching union, the EIS, also voted to call for such a ban, claiming the military was trying to boost its falling numbers — caused by the unpopularity of the Iraq and Afghan campaigns — by targeting impressionable teenagers
The ministry says it is invited into about 1,000 schools a year and that it goes to inform rather than recruit.
The Conservatives call the NUT campaign “a kick in the teeth for our boys in the front line” and say the teachers should be concentrating on education.
Do you think the MoD should be going into schools? Would you be happy if your child attended a talk outlining the advantages of a military career?
