Labourhome - Stories by free socialist http://www.labourhome.org/ Back to the roots... en-us Copyright 2007 - LabourHome.org Wed Aug 20 11:31:03 2008 Labourhome Labourhome Labourhome http://www.labourhome.org/favicon.ico http://www.labourhome.org/ [Blogs] Reactionary Brown wants militarised comprehensive schools http://www.labourhome.org/story/2008/4/5/192829/9468 Wasn't this some barmy Tory policy idea from the mid-90s that was quietly abandoned? Why the need to blanket-militarise today's teenagers? Why introduce such a reactionary, atavistic and totalitarian policy idea that deserves to be buried in the graveyard of history along with the Hitler Youth and FDJ?

http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2271362,00.html

 

I'm strongly libertarian, so to be honest this very policy idea disgusts me a great deal. I'm all for young adults joining the military if it is by their own free choice; what I don't want the State using the public education system as an apparatus to indoctrinate youngsters with militarism. That is coercive, backwards, sick and doesn't belong in a modern free society.


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