National Guard members to serve as substitute teachers

[ulysses]

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/12158367.htm

Last year, the S.C. Air National Guard approached the district about a community service project that would put Guard members in Richland 1 classrooms as substitute teachers.

“It was just like a match made in heaven,” said Sanita Savage, district senior associate for human resources.

The program will focus on placing Guard members in middle and high schools, where the shortages are the most pressing.

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The National Guard may allow members to wear their uniforms when teaching, Carroll said. However, because the National Guard members would be using their leave time and would be paid by the school district for teaching, it’s unclear whether wearing their uniforms will comply with Guard rules, Carroll said.

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[msongs]

1. military PROPAGANDA foisted on the children - only reason for uniforms n/t

[ulysses]

4. just something nice for the kids.

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[fooj]

2. WTF? I can't believe this...

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[noamnety]

3. What's that I smell?

a bunch of BS, that's what it is.

“We do hope to go into the schools and be role models — not as military members but just as hardworking citizens in the community,” said Lt. Col. Les Carroll, a Guard spokesman.

If it's an honest attempt to provide a community service, rather than a recruitment effort, they wouldn't wear uniforms.

They also wouldn't concentrate in middle schools and high schools - they would just tell a district to use them where they are needed.

[Sparkman]

5. Where's your PATRIOTISM ? Civi's no longer control the MIL's, atten-hut!

Just how this uniformed military intrusion into the classroom plays out is VERY TELLING of contemporary America! Seems to me that just a hundred years ago, the concentrati...oops, reservation Indian schools had U.S. cavalry and a Fort commander overseer. Funny how the circle of life sounds like a broken record. Now mandate army recruiters in every school, every day, and Hitler Youth's brown shirts will have reincarnated in 60 short years. Semper malus lucre.

[Massacure]

6. I'm 16, and most subs at my school don't know what the hell they are doing

I'd take a guard member if he knew what he was doing over someone who is a complete idiot in a subject. They shouldn't wear uniforms though.