SCHOOL CADET TRAINING

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29744, 10 February 1962, Page 15

SCHOOL CADET TRAINING

Attack By Board Member s “It would appear to me i that teaching small boys to . be professional killers is immoral,” said a letter to the B Burnside High School board ? of governors from one of the - board members, Mr B. Zeff. . which was received at a board meeting. s Mr Zeff, who was not able 5 to attend the meeting, sug- - gested in his letter that par- . ents be sent a circular Inviting them to vote on the " desirability of having mili--1 tary training at the school. ’ The board discussed the i matter for a short time and then decided to hold it over s until Mr Zeff could be prest ent to take part in the dis- ) cussion. s The headmaster (Mr C. i. Cross) said it seemed to him t that parents were satisfied f with the situation as it stood, r Parents had the right to opt f their children out of the e cadet training, but few had taken advantage of it 3 Mrs C. C. Holland said t she felt it would be an ins vidious thing for one school i to do, if they were to ask s parents to vote. s In all her experience of s cadet training in schools she had not heard anything to

; suggest that a term such as : Mr Zeff used in his letter I was justified. Mr Cross said he personI ally favoured cadet training. ■ He felt, however, that there 1 should be some statement : from higher up in the Army administration as to whether tit was considered worth ) while to back up cadet train- > ing.