Military Training In Schools Said To Be Optional
Controlling authorities of secondary schools are free to decide whether or not compulsory training will be done in, their schools. Training in any case is not compulsory. These points are contained in a Ministerial letter received by the Federation of Labour in reply to a proposal of the federation’s annual conference in April last that military training in secondary schools should be abolished and the time given to physical chlture. The federation submitted that as there was now compulsory .training at the age of 18 there was no longer need for it in schools.
The Ministerial reply after mentioning that training in the schools was not compulsory, said that in cadet training there was now more emphasis being placed on specialist units, with a minimum of barrack square drill and small arms training. Physical education was an essential element of the training.
“I feel,” said the Minister, “that under the present*system the headmaster has the freedom to provide the kind of training he considers best to fit boys for citizenship.”
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 16, Issue 4, 4 October 1950, Page 5
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178Military Training In Schools Said To Be Optional Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 16, Issue 4, 4 October 1950, Page 5
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