Its quite sad when you think about it, that any country would want to intentionally steer into paths that they can blatantly see is non-productive methods. Australia is getting so much better, as is the UK and US I believe from all reports. Slowly, western cultures are coming around to accepting the issues that exist, instead of ignoring them as has been for all time.

There are learning curves that I guess must be sampled, but stupidity is stupidity at the end of the day. Australia had a recent bout of this when they decided about 8 - 10 years ago to remove the general spelling learning system from schools off sounding out words, to instead engaging the words completely. Basically, we now have a generation of youth that can barely read, write and spell as a result. They have changed it back about a year ago now, but that means we are still going to suffer a generation that fails to spell correctly.

The Australian military had their boo boo also, by changing the basic recruitment from 12 weeks to 6 weeks. Basically, for four years the only soldier that came through, was a weak undisciplined one. They claimed they didn't remove any of the learning as such, they just cut all the BS out. But what they failed to understand, is that it has nothing to do with the BS, because the time was needed to live under such strict conditions in order for the technique in which to change their thought patterns from civilian to military just didn't occur in such a short time.

So now they suffer a period of soldiers that are still partly civilian in nature, which just doesn't mix well. They have changed it back recently also.

Basically, the moral to the story is... if it ain't broke, why fix it?