why doesn't the armed forces take school leavers with no grades, teach them survival skills n respect,?

Question

kids that leave school over seas have to train in the army for several years, it teaches them a lot more than the streets ever will.

Answer 1

The fallacy in your argument is that "school leavers," or "drop-outs"...

Lack self respect, are uneducated and therefore hard to teach, are demonstrated quitters who would not follow the program to learn skills and basically a waste of time unless they decide to improve themselves.

What are you saying... Lock them up in a training concentration camp until they prove they have skills? They will quit the training the same as school.



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Answer 2

Firstly - The British Army is undoubtedly the best army in the world.

Secondly - Why should these people be given preferential treatment because they are too thick to learn to read and write.

It would be unfair on the rest of us if these morons you talk about,were to drag the Army down to the level of politics or other national institutions in this country.

Let them be MPs I say, they can't do any damage there. They could sit with their bums on the green seats, talk a load of crap about crap, earn a fortune, have holdiays abroad on tap, a great pension. That should keep the little darlings happy for a bit.

Why should England tremble?.

Answer 3

Even The military has standards... The millitary requires generally at least a GED. You need to know people can read the instructions on a hand genade or process the pay checks for 5000 people. Yes, it's a great place for young people to start in. But, don't expect them to be a replacement for a poor educational system bad job skills.

Answer 4

A couple of reasons really.

I am aware that these are very vague generalisations and do not represent the majority of school leavers.

It costs a vast amount of money to train a soldier to a high standard, if the kids have shown no aptitude to learn so far, why waste money assuming that they will suddenly want to learn.

In this country we chose not to have conscription, so our armed forces are made up from volunteers.

Would you seriously want to give a gun to some kid who may have some serious behaviour problems or problems when dealing with authority.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

I think it's a good idea but they would have to set up the right programmes for them.
The reality is the armed forces are really stretched at the moment.
If the resources could be found I'm sure it would be a postive move for a lot of young people to find a good training and a specialist career in certain areas of engineering, sciences, etc.
It all boils down to resources.

Answer 7

The U.S. Armed Forces is an all-volunteer force. We have already seen in past wars (when the draft was instated) what happens with high-school dropouts and criminals -- all they do is cause trouble. You don't want to have people in the military who are forced to serve because they won't. They can't be counted on to defend the country.

Answer 8

We had it once upon a time - it was called "National Service".
All young men aged 18 years had to do 2 years Military Service. My husband was "called up" for his 2 years in REME after he had finished at University.
A friend in Israel tells me that they have a similar system which is simply National not military, so young people can opt to do other things to benefit their country as women in this Country did during the last War - they could have gone into the forces, munitions factories, work on farms as "Land Girls" - in Israel boys and girls can choose to work in Nurseries, Homes for the Elderly, in Hospitals, on a Kibbutz, etc.

Answer 9

because the military needs proof that you won;t quit everyt ime something doesn't go your way. High school is easy compared to the military. if you quit then, who is to say you won't quit later. The military is high tech today and needs motivated individuals who don't wuss out easily. they don't want uneducated slackers who can barely read and have no writing skills whatsoever.

Completing high schools shows a commitment to finishing something.

Answer 10

Well the British army does do that. You dont need any grades what so ever to be a squaddie, but its still the individuals choice to join or not.