04-09-2017 18:41 via uk.news.yahoo.com

MP: Give children Armed Forces lessons to improve recruitment

Children should be taught about the Armed Forces in school in a bid to tackle a military recruitment crisis, the Prime Minister has been told.Mark Francois MP, a former Territorial Army officer who served as Armed Forces minister from 2013 to 2015, is proposing children should be taught about the military as part of the national curriculum.Mr Francois blames political correctness, left-wing teaching and an emphasis on "peace studies" in schools for the failure to educate children about the role
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