Cats five
The educational establishment that I went to was crap............. When I was a CI with a local ATC unit the schools in the area had not improved.
I am sure that the ATC unit I was with kept more than a few young people out of prison by inspiring them, rather than the school that seemed to put them in a box marked factory fodder.
If the nations education system has improved I am pleased, but the product may have archived academic goals but seems to still lack life skills, something that the cadet forces do well.
A well funded cadet force is an investment in people that is priceless for the nation.