If the RAF ran a school..
If the RAF ran a school.....
It would have to be fairly rigid on the catchment area criteria in order to weed out pupils from the other two services who wanted to enrol.
Funny how it is rare to see it the other way around!
GWEEDO.
Funny how it is rare to see it the other way around!
GWEEDO.
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It would have to be fairly rigid on the catchment area criteria in order to weed out pupils from the other two services who wanted to enrol.
That's like bog cleaners having a job protection scheme. By all means...
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It would have to be fairly rigid on the catchment area criteria in order to weed out pupils from the other two services who wanted to enrol.
The Grammar School
Pupils spend all their time on field trips or acting as security on the school gates. Teachers don't like to leave the Staff Room except to go and ride horses.
Public Schools
Nearly all the classrooms were scrapped on the promise of getting two really big classrooms in ten years although one will probably go to a school in India.
They only have a few minibuses to play with, they had a few security trucks they borrowed off the Comprehensives but they had to hand them back.
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Gweedo,
Love the sentiment but that sort of thing would only ever work with grown adult volunteers, the first pie munching wheezy kid you lambasted for not being able to complete the 20 meter shuffle without pulling his pud would have you in the Court of Lard Arse Rights in a feckin heartbeat
Love the sentiment but that sort of thing would only ever work with grown adult volunteers, the first pie munching wheezy kid you lambasted for not being able to complete the 20 meter shuffle without pulling his pud would have you in the Court of Lard Arse Rights in a feckin heartbeat
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Aircrew to Teacher
Just to let people know that you can successfully leave the RAF and transition to teaching successfully.
I spent 22 years in service on C130 and VC10, and I have now spent a couple of years in the classroom.
Service style discipline helps, but you have to get to know the pupils and see what makes them tick. I am sure that my second career will be as enjoyable as my first one.
I spent 22 years in service on C130 and VC10, and I have now spent a couple of years in the classroom.
Service style discipline helps, but you have to get to know the pupils and see what makes them tick. I am sure that my second career will be as enjoyable as my first one.
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Central Teacher School
The whole system would be organised with Super Teachers who devise and revise the syllabus and do checks/audits on the Teachers. Every two years or so the Head Super Teacher would move on and his successor would feel the need to change the syllabus for completely barking reasons. Just as all the Teachers got used to the stupid changes the Head Super Teacher would move on again and the cycle would start again.
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Being an RAF school as opposed to the other 2 options, and despite the obvious leadership issues, would I suppose guarantee that none of the students would ever be bullied or buggered 
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Are you sure about that?
Discharged RAF woman was bullied, inquest told
The RAF has been recognised by charity Stonewall as a "Top 100" employer for lesbian, gay and bisexual people in Britain.
With you on the poor leadership though.
Discharged RAF woman was bullied, inquest told
The RAF has been recognised by charity Stonewall as a "Top 100" employer for lesbian, gay and bisexual people in Britain.
With you on the poor leadership though.
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, explains a lot though 
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Roadster280: from a thread of yours a long time ago:
Not much of that respect evident in your posts on this thread!
That day cemented my respect for the Royal Air Force.
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Ken, it's banter. I do have respect for the Royal Air Force. A lot, actually.
As someone put it on Arrse the other day after the Reds crash, "crabs are just crabs, but when they get hurt, they're one of us". This after some cretin made a thoughtless comment regarding the crash.
I couldn't agree more. I'm no warry infantry type, I was a bleep. I take **** for that, but it's OK.
As someone put it on Arrse the other day after the Reds crash, "crabs are just crabs, but when they get hurt, they're one of us". This after some cretin made a thoughtless comment regarding the crash.
I couldn't agree more. I'm no warry infantry type, I was a bleep. I take **** for that, but it's OK.
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Alright, fair enough, the bog cleaner remark was a bit harsh, but the only people I ever saw wanting to go RAF from the Army were aircrew types. Quite a few came the other way, at least into my Corps, I guess career prospects and posting choices held sway.
That said, tell me my post #18 was off in any way. If anything I went light.
I wish it weren't so, I wish the Navy would still have a "navy". It is what it is though, and to call a pig's ear a silk purse does none of us any favours.
Now go and press your polyester and try not to get it stuck on the iron
That said, tell me my post #18 was off in any way. If anything I went light.
I wish it weren't so, I wish the Navy would still have a "navy". It is what it is though, and to call a pig's ear a silk purse does none of us any favours.
Now go and press your polyester and try not to get it stuck on the iron