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PACIFIST group the Peace Pledge Union (PPU) accused the Ministry of Defence (MoD) today of promoting politically biased schooling over its new plans to encourage a “military ethos” in British schools.
Tory MP Robert Goodwill, who has been commissioned to write a report on the plans announced by Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson, has suggested that some schools, mainly in “disadvantaged” areas, could become “military academies.”
But the PPU said that schools would violate their legal duty to be politically balanced if they promoted pro-military attitudes.
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