Wasting ammunition…..

I’m not talking about real bullets or high explosives.  I’m a sckoolie. I don’t often get to do bombs and bullets.

I am talking about the waste of young minds, talent and great enthusiasm.  Fresh blood, wasted in delivering school liaison days. Wasted in pushing agendas not directly tied to that of the school.  We have our direction.  It is clear. Deliver modernised training.  Yet we continue to organise a conference on this or that, a day of entertainment for a multitude of schools with some vague recruiting / community connection.  Modernisation as an agenda is beset by counter agendas.  Shouldn’t we throw all the resources at a requirement which really needs it.  The need is not just of modernisation of training which is difficult enough, but on the modernisation of the supporting structures and processes which link into and support the delivery of trained personnel.  We need our young minds, talent and enthusiasm to attack all strands of this considerable challenge.  Unfortunately some one else has their finger on the trigger.