Your statement is correct.
I was amazed to find out that British private schools used to keep arsenals of weapons
So they could train the next generation of officers and you were basically guaranteed a commission
If you went through that system. (not sure if they still do)
They did when I was at school but that was about 40 years ago. The male children of my cousins had drill instruction and live fire on ranges when they were at school, they went on to be officers in the army just like their fathers.
I joined the ATC, (Air Training Corps) when I was about 14 and we got live fire on the local range with .303 Lee Enfields, I also shot indoor .22 with .303 Lee Enfields with a .22 rim fire conversion at the local police range. My father was the squadron marksman when in the RAF during WW2 and was sent to Bisley to shoot. Part of his duties along side of his trade was to dispose of un-exploded weapons by shooting at it.
There were weapons in my school as well.
But you got expelled if you were if caught with them. LoL
All joking aside
I Can see the logic from a militaristic nation like the UK.
Sort of like the Spartans agoge,
Edit, when I was very young six or seven.
I remember some army guys visiting my junior school.
They had decommissioned weapons and dummy grenades they let us hold the rifles and throw the grenades
I remember holding a sten gun I thought it was the coolest thing ever.
I have a friend who grew up in Yugoslavia in his last year of high school they were taught how the fire an assault Rifle and lay mines.
I wonder did this happen in other nations did the army visit your school?
