I get three holidays a year, being a chalkie and all
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The chalkies were demanding almost unlimited funds for education.
But even those destined to become chalkies had to complete a further 10 weeks' training as infantrymen.
The Australian Government is giving so much money to education at present that they can happily get stuck into the chalkies because everyone has had education as an issue.
Australia sent scores of highly educated national servicemen - most of them chalkies - to Papua and New Guinea.
The chalkies' job wasn't all teaching.
The chalkies' experiences changed their lives in ways that would have been impossible to predict.
Full-scale implementation of the Curriculum for Excellence is nigh and condemned chalkies know there is to be no education governor's reprieve.
I have a soft spot for the teaching profession, even the chuntering chalkies of Victoria.