Published: Thursday, 3rd April, 2008 08:55
Letter: Teachers wrong over service recruitment
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AS a proud National Service airman I would like to bring to your reader’s notice that the RAF celebrates its formation 90 years ago this week and mention how I regret that one of the teachers unions intends to support any school that decides to ban Armed Service Recruitment Officers from future careers evenings.
Perhaps this verse from the poem written by Noel Coward, as a tribute to our airmen, puts the case against the union’s decision. For 'actors’ in the third line one could read 'teachers’.
Lie in the dark and listen
City magnates and steel contractors
Factory workers and politicians
Soft hysterical little actors
Ballet dancers, reserved musicians
Safe in your warm civilian beds
Count your profits and count your sheep
Life is passing over your heads
Just turn over and try to sleep
Lie in the dark and let them go
There’s one debt you’ll forever owe
Lie in the dark and listen.
There must be thousands of teachers who were, or have relatives, in the armed services, or who believe their union was wrong to have passed the above motion at conference.
Let’s hear from them and what they propose to do about it.
BRIAN LEWENDON
Tilehurst
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