This is all being portrayed in the media as the NUT trying to ensure that school students get an impartial view of events in the middle east, I can't argue with this but looking at the NUT conference agenda (
http://www.teachers.org.uk/resources...l%20Agenda.pdf) you will see that the motion endorses the following:
Co-sponsor with the Stop the War Coalition and its other affiliated trade unions, mindful of existing legal guidelines, curriculum learning materials on peace and militarisation. In addition, the Union agrees to purchase and circulate the most recent education pack produced by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, which promotes an understanding of the history of this most protracted dispute in the Middle East.
What we are seeing is a bit of political grandstanding from a group of people who haven't grown out of the sixth form debating societies they previously (dis)graced. What beggars believe to me is the standard of journalism that is attached to this and other issue surrounding the military. A bit of research turns up these facts that journalists fail to challenge the NUT on.