Batman's Robins Are Crime-fighting Interns in the DCnU. Your Thoughts?

Anybody who follows comics probably knows that DC Comics is "Rebooting" (for lack of a better word) there whole Universe. this also means that they are changing the time line so that superheros in the DCU (or DCnU as its now being called) have only been active for 5 years.



Which brings up the question about Batman and his crew, which is

"If super-heroes have only existed for five years, how has Batman had so many sidekicks?"



DC Comics official answer to this is that "Robin is an intern program -and a very intensive one at that."



Honestly I think its the most realistic way to explain why a grown man would choose so many kids as his crime fighting partners.



(thought I think preteens and teenagers are still kinda young to fight mass murderers and psychopaths but whatever I'll go with it)



Besides, Batman is such a perfectionist and so territorial about who dose what in "his city" that I think it makes sense that he would not allow any other vigilante types to operate in Gotham without some sort of year long training program. but that's just me



anyway Some people like, it some people hate it.

What about u?







(and just so you guys know I'm not making this up)



http://www.newsarama.com/comics/dcnu-the-new-52-retailer-info-2-110808.html



http://comicbookmovie.com/fansites/joshw24/news/?a=43956



http://www.comicbooked.com/apply-now-robin-internship-starts-with-the-new-52/Batman's Robins Are Crime-fighting Interns in the DCnU. Your Thoughts?
Hmm. This sounds like it could be the one and only logical way to explain the "Robin" thing without making the Batman a creeper-type (note the lower case....this is a bad thing).



I do still have to wonder then, what the "Boy Wonders" get out of it, since well.....they're going to be students a _lot_ more than they're going to be sidekicks. That's my issue: it does rather neatly preclude _most_ of the reasons why there'd be an emotional relationship of _Any_ sort at all going on between the Batman and his "Robin of the Week".



This is, however, quite a good way to update the whole Robin mess and make it _doable_ in a 20th century sense. ^__^ Good idea, but it needs good writing to back it up.Batman's Robins Are Crime-fighting Interns in the DCnU. Your Thoughts?
Thanks kindly for the Best Answer, but I'm wondering....is there actually another way to _do_ the whole Batman-Robin dynamic without making the Batman look like he should be on "To Catch a Predator"? Honestly, even with an older-teen/near-adult Robin, the relationship's a bit creepy.

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Batman's Robins Are Crime-fighting Interns in the DCnU. Your Thoughts?
It's a hell of an internship program, as there is really no room for error, but how do you get nominated for such a position?
That is a hell of a internship.