Too many course criteria in here. I know we have a mission statement to teach and develop but lets remember this is a kids activity club. The cadets come to have fun. The trick is to keep it enjoyable and hopefully they learn something useful along the way.
The more and more this becomes like school and the less we do fun activities will surely lead to the reduction in cadet ‘lifespan’ and the numbers on Sqn. This then leads to less word of mouth, fewer recruits, less potential staff etc etc
Feeling Heavy Buffet coming on before we enter stall and the inevitable irrecoverable flat spin to a hard stop…
Not really sure what the problem is there - I’d suggest that gain any PTS badge at a given level is a much more open and widely-relevant benchmark than the classification level, which we already have.
Why does the attendence criteria increase at FS level and what is the determination of what is exam leave, andbody can say I’m studying for’exams’.
This will come back to bite and bite hard somewhere, in particular when cadets/pupils are having to submit things such as course work which is part of an exam.
But any non attendance that is registered via Cadet Portal will be deemed as Authorised as we can’t force them to come… just looking for them to have ownership on informing us.
Where are the Wing Cdrs in all this?
If they get the message from Sqn Cdrs that something is nonsense, they should be making these views known to RCs and they similarly up the chain and get it revoked.
Or would this go against the top down we know best, although we don’t really have a clue about Air Cadets, system?
Isn’t this basically turning into a similar model to the star ACF system? Combination of theoretical and practical “qualifications” to reach a certain level?
They know little else. I can’t think how we’ve managed for so long without all the matrices. I don’t recall ever feeling like things were going wrong … except an increasingly mindless and obsessive management mind set at Cranwell.
@Valiant at least DofE is useful and recognisable on a CV or job/uni application, unlike everything else and silver is more than doable by Easter of Yr 12 for those that do it.
I’m so against this. For Cpl, what about the cadet that starts late, is an incredible leader and can’t be promoted based on merit…Also what about the very capable cadet who struggles to pass exams…
Feeling Heavy Buffet coming on before we enter stall and the inevitable irrecoverable flat spin to a hard stop…
