The NUT yesterday passed a resolution that 'teachers and schools should not be conduits for either dissemination of MoD propaganda or the recruitment of military personnel' , ie. that the armed forces should not be allowed to give careers advice in the classroom.
Depressing but not surprising. More disgusting, however, was the healthy round of applause received by one delegate who ranted that, if it were not to be misleading, recruitment material would have to say ' Join the Army and we will send you to carry out the imperialist occupation of other people's countries'. He accused the army of torture and murder into the bargain.
These are school teachers remember.
BBC 24 reported this last night. In a segment which seemed not to have even the pretence of impartiality, it dredged up 'a student' , who was interviewed from Leeds, to talk about how the RAF had misled him by offering up nothing but the good points about military service under the cover of an invitation to an RAF band concert at the school. The student's particular credentials for speaking where never given, and the anchor didn't even try to put anything other than anti-military questions to him.
This was compounded by an interview which followed with, presumably, a disinterested figure, a defence expert in Oxford, who defended the military. He then faced a barage of hostile questions from the co-anchor.
The NUT, the BBC. It's the Culture, stupid.
