ARmy Rumour SErvice

**Pyianno** · 10-07-2012, 03:33

Labour plan to set up 'Service Schools' staffed by soldiers - Telegraph

I'm sure they'll be queuing up for this one.

**Robbeaus** · 10-07-2012, 04:21

As somebody who went to a military school have to say it didn't do me any lasting harm. Also we had a Teacher who was German, who when he was bored with teaching us would tell us about his time in a Russian POW camp after the war [he was caught in Berlin during the final days]. Some of those stories were horrible.
However and when you considers Govies plans, reintroduce the cat-o-nine-tails, pond ducking of witches , learn by rote, toffing ones cap to upper classes, wooden clogs and gruel, return of 'O' levels and CSEs so that we can all be failures at 14. I think this a slightly sensible idea as apposed to Govies weren't Victorian days brill? Besides which bayonet practice would be a right barrel of laughs. Smith minor of the remove strapped to an A frame and run through with a toasting fork. Spiffing What What

**Cabana** · 10-07-2012, 06:19

This is just more rhetoric from Labour trying to get popular. They are probably listening to people who say bring back national service etc and so have come up with this idea to get votes. If they get in, it won't happen because they never fulfil their election promises and they will find it will cost too much.

**Grumblegrunt** · 10-07-2012, 06:20

not as bad as - Why the military must invade our schools - Telegraph

bosnia, iraq, afghanistan then cricklewood high school - the army just cant take it.

we would be slaughtered despite recent experiences. soldiers would be mentally scarred from being dissed on facebook and sacked for shagging the sixth form.

it was bad enough when they let soldiers run the prisons.

**vvaannmmaann** · 10-07-2012, 06:33

Wasn't this first proposed a few years ago?

Edit to add:

Last September according to this...........
Soldiers 'should run schools in crackdown on indiscipline' - Telegraph

and in 2008 it seems.......
Ex Soldiers to Teach in Hostile Inner City Schools

**fozzy** · 10-07-2012, 06:53

Teaching unions would never let it happen.

**DemsMaShoes** · 10-07-2012, 07:14

Sorry to repeat myself but. "Bandwagon for Mr. Milliband"!

**DemsMaShoes** · 10-07-2012, 07:15

Originally Posted by Robbeaus

As somebody who went to a military school have to say it didn't do me any lasting harm............................

Irony of ironies.

**pimpernel** · 10-07-2012, 08:50

You can't mark him down for effort. Lots of recently made redundant Armed forces personel, and all of a sudden - Labour the Party that care, vote for me as an election is not far away.
Watch the Commons today to see how close we are!