March 27, 2008
Teachers, dontyajusluvem? Guru certainly does – especially the well-equipped variety that like to hand out extra-curricular activities (but that’s another story) – and keeps a key eye on their annual get together at the National Union of Teachers conference.
Considering strike action for the first time in the last 10 minutes, the NUT conference always lives up to its name and this year has been no exception.
And now the nutty boys and girls have set their sights on the Armed Forces.
Sir and Miss are not happy about the ‘misleading propaganda’ that the Army has been chugging out to vulnerable pupils. They say the military should come clean and explain that, rather than prolonging the school days delusion of three square meals served up by some lacky, clothes all supplied free of charge and plenty of dangerous toys to play with, joining the red berets can lead to death and dismemberment, carnage and 'collateral damage'.
Guru quite agrees. Although he wonders if the NUTters should also focus their fuzzy-eyed gaze on religious education. It is after all, the biggest load of propaganda ever dished out: man claims to be son of non-existent superbeing who created the world in seven days, walks on water, heals the sick, gets crucified and then comes back from the dead. Fanciful stuff. But somehow the teachers are happy to let small minds be polluted by it.
There is a solution at hand, however.
Ban the military, ban religions and ban cardigans with leather elbow patches – for that, surely, is a crime against humanity.
Yet, on reflection (for that is what those of a religious bent are apt to do), Yours Truly firmly believes that we should all keep our children well away from school for fear of anaphylactic shock. After all, every school in the land probably contains traces of NUT.
