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This site is a member of WebRing. To browse visit here. Friday, June 04, 2004 No recruiter left behind Here's something I missed when it first made the rounds. It's old news now, but as far as I know, nothing about the situation has changed. Thanks to Safety Neal for alerting me.SEC. 9528. [Otherwise known as No Child Left Behind] ARMED FORCES RECRUITER ACCESS TO STUDENTSAND STUDENT RECRUITING INFORMATION. [snip](3) SAME ACCESS TO STUDENTS.-Each local educationalagency receiving assistance under this Act shallprovide military recruiters the same access tosecondary school students as is provided generally topost secondary educational institutions or toprospective employers of those students.Yes, what that means is that military recruiters have the right to names, addresses, telephone numbers and other personal information of the students in public schools. If a school refuses to provide the information, it can lose its federal funding. The only recourse parents have is to refuse to allows their childrens' names to be included in school directories, or given out in some other form, and many parents have no idea that they must take action themselves.A quick search of the net turned up these articles, amongst many others.Truthout:Dickell Fonda, an Evanston Township High School parent, said a Navy recruiter called on the telephone last winter and asked to talk to her 17-year-old son . . . "They asked him what he wanted to do after high school," Fonda said. "He said he was planning on going to college. The recruiter said very clearly to him, `Now, do you really think your parents are going to pay for that?'" Fonda said the exchange left her so enraged that she went to a Navy recruiting station and had them delete her son's name from their computer.Christian Science Monitor:Deep in the education law's 670 pages lies a provision that requires public secondary schools to give military recruiters the names, addresses, and phone numbers of their students (mainly high school juniors and seniors). Some school districts responded to the new law by designing consent forms. Unless parents signed them, information about their children was not sent to the recruiters.This summer, however, over 20 California school districts - including those in San Francisco, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, and Santa Cruz - were warned that such consent forms did not comply with the law.. . .On July 2, [DoD] issued a joint letter with the Department of Education that read, "Contrary to an 'opt-in' process, the referenced law requires an 'opt out' notification process, whereby parents are notified and have an opportunity to request the information not be disclosed." In other words, an unreturned or missing consent form should indicate that a parent wanted his or her child's information given to military recruiters, and not the other way around.Mother Jones News:Recruiters are up-front about their plans to use school lists to aggressively pursue students through mailings, phone calls, and personal visits -- even if parents object. "The only thing that will get us to stop contacting the family is if they call their congressman," says Major Johannes Paraan, head U.S. Army recruiter for Vermont and northeastern New York. "Or maybe if the kid died, we'll take them off our list."It has been pointed out that even if parents refuse to allow their children's personal data to be handed over to the military, recruiters will still have the same access to students as potential employers do in job fairs and career days. I don't have a problem with that as a general principle. If high school juniors and seniors are old enough to begin thinking about their adult futures, they ought to be allowed to consider all the possibilities, including military service.What I do object to, however, is the kind of coercion that can easily take place when an uncertain teenager, looking at the lack of money for college and the lack of opportunities for employment, hears tempting offers of college, travel and a paying job. At the beginning of the first Gulf War, the local television station showed a young woman in uniform handing over her ten-day-old child to its grandmother. "I signed up because they promised me a job and a college education," she said bitterly. Was she naive? Sure. Was she taken advantage of? Damn straight.Nick will be attending the county high school next year. I wonder what hoops I'll have to jump through to keep his name out of the Pentagon's hands. posted by Liz @ 11:52 AM | The template is set to display 10 posts. To see all the posts for this month, click on the month name in the Archive section RSS Feed PERSONAL Send email toliz at life-as-a-spectator-sport.com Home I'm a mother, grandmother, a computer professional, Democrat, Christian. I welcome politely worded comments and email, my spam filter throws the rest away, so don't bother to flame me WHY 'LIFE AS A SPECTATOR SPORT' "If you're lucky not to live in the gutters of a slum, but still can't afford to take vacations in the Alps, you're part of that enormous middle class who lives life through the medium of the television, further separated from "real" life by air conditioner, by automobile, by dishwasher, microwave and ice-in-the-door refrigerator, by automatic washer and dryer, and all the other appliances and conveniences that make it possible for America to live life at second hand. I'm not sure why Americans decided that televised drama was better than the real thing, that cardboard microwave food containers were an adequate substitute for real dishes, and their contents for real food, or that cooking, dishwashing and face-to-face conversation wasn't worth the effort and time it required. Someone fed this nation a plastic crate of out-of-season tomatoes and told us it was life and we took them at their word, and we're so much the poorer for it that it's hard to know where to start to list the shortcomings." I wrote this a couple of years ago, but I have to admit it's much less amusing than I thought it would be to see the artifical construct falling apart. 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Here's something I missed when it first made the rounds. It's old news now, but as far as I know, nothing about the situation has changed. Thanks to Safety Neal for alerting me.SEC. 9528. [Otherwise known as No Child Left Behind] ARMED FORCES RECRUITER ACCESS TO STUDENTSAND STUDENT RECRUITING INFORMATION. [snip](3) SAME ACCESS TO STUDENTS.-Each local educationalagency receiving assistance under this Act shallprovide military recruiters the same access tosecondary school students as is provided generally topost secondary educational institutions or toprospective employers of those students.Yes, what that means is that military recruiters have the right to names, addresses, telephone numbers and other personal information of the students in public schools. If a school refuses to provide the information, it can lose its federal funding. The only recourse parents have is to refuse to allows their childrens' names to be included in school directories, or given out in some other form, and many parents have no idea that they must take action themselves.A quick search of the net turned up these articles, amongst many others.Truthout:Dickell Fonda, an Evanston Township High School parent, said a Navy recruiter called on the telephone last winter and asked to talk to her 17-year-old son . . . "They asked him what he wanted to do after high school," Fonda said. "He said he was planning on going to college. The recruiter said very clearly to him, `Now, do you really think your parents are going to pay for that?'" Fonda said the exchange left her so enraged that she went to a Navy recruiting station and had them delete her son's name from their computer.Christian Science Monitor:Deep in the education law's 670 pages lies a provision that requires public secondary schools to give military recruiters the names, addresses, and phone numbers of their students (mainly high school juniors and seniors). Some school districts responded to the new law by designing consent forms. Unless parents signed them, information about their children was not sent to the recruiters.This summer, however, over 20 California school districts - including those in San Francisco, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, and Santa Cruz - were warned that such consent forms did not comply with the law.. . .On July 2, [DoD] issued a joint letter with the Department of Education that read, "Contrary to an 'opt-in' process, the referenced law requires an 'opt out' notification process, whereby parents are notified and have an opportunity to request the information not be disclosed." In other words, an unreturned or missing consent form should indicate that a parent wanted his or her child's information given to military recruiters, and not the other way around.Mother Jones News:Recruiters are up-front about their plans to use school lists to aggressively pursue students through mailings, phone calls, and personal visits -- even if parents object. "The only thing that will get us to stop contacting the family is if they call their congressman," says Major Johannes Paraan, head U.S. Army recruiter for Vermont and northeastern New York. "Or maybe if the kid died, we'll take them off our list."It has been pointed out that even if parents refuse to allow their children's personal data to be handed over to the military, recruiters will still have the same access to students as potential employers do in job fairs and career days. I don't have a problem with that as a general principle. If high school juniors and seniors are old enough to begin thinking about their adult futures, they ought to be allowed to consider all the possibilities, including military service.What I do object to, however, is the kind of coercion that can easily take place when an uncertain teenager, looking at the lack of money for college and the lack of opportunities for employment, hears tempting offers of college, travel and a paying job. At the beginning of the first Gulf War, the local television station showed a young woman in uniform handing over her ten-day-old child to its grandmother. "I signed up because they promised me a job and a college education," she said bitterly. Was she naive? Sure. Was she taken advantage of? Damn straight.Nick will be attending the county high school next year. I wonder what hoops I'll have to jump through to keep his name out of the Pentagon's hands.
SEC. 9528. [Otherwise known as No Child Left Behind] ARMED FORCES RECRUITER ACCESS TO STUDENTSAND STUDENT RECRUITING INFORMATION. [snip](3) SAME ACCESS TO STUDENTS.-Each local educationalagency receiving assistance under this Act shallprovide military recruiters the same access tosecondary school students as is provided generally topost secondary educational institutions or toprospective employers of those students.
Dickell Fonda, an Evanston Township High School parent, said a Navy recruiter called on the telephone last winter and asked to talk to her 17-year-old son . . . "They asked him what he wanted to do after high school," Fonda said. "He said he was planning on going to college. The recruiter said very clearly to him, `Now, do you really think your parents are going to pay for that?'" Fonda said the exchange left her so enraged that she went to a Navy recruiting station and had them delete her son's name from their computer.
Deep in the education law's 670 pages lies a provision that requires public secondary schools to give military recruiters the names, addresses, and phone numbers of their students (mainly high school juniors and seniors). Some school districts responded to the new law by designing consent forms. Unless parents signed them, information about their children was not sent to the recruiters.This summer, however, over 20 California school districts - including those in San Francisco, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, and Santa Cruz - were warned that such consent forms did not comply with the law.. . .On July 2, [DoD] issued a joint letter with the Department of Education that read, "Contrary to an 'opt-in' process, the referenced law requires an 'opt out' notification process, whereby parents are notified and have an opportunity to request the information not be disclosed." In other words, an unreturned or missing consent form should indicate that a parent wanted his or her child's information given to military recruiters, and not the other way around.
Recruiters are up-front about their plans to use school lists to aggressively pursue students through mailings, phone calls, and personal visits -- even if parents object. "The only thing that will get us to stop contacting the family is if they call their congressman," says Major Johannes Paraan, head U.S. Army recruiter for Vermont and northeastern New York. "Or maybe if the kid died, we'll take them off our list."
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"If you're lucky not to live in the gutters of a slum, but still can't afford to take vacations in the Alps, you're part of that enormous middle class who lives life through the medium of the television, further separated from "real" life by air conditioner, by automobile, by dishwasher, microwave and ice-in-the-door refrigerator, by automatic washer and dryer, and all the other appliances and conveniences that make it possible for America to live life at second hand. I'm not sure why Americans decided that televised drama was better than the real thing, that cardboard microwave food containers were an adequate substitute for real dishes, and their contents for real food, or that cooking, dishwashing and face-to-face conversation wasn't worth the effort and time it required. Someone fed this nation a plastic crate of out-of-season tomatoes and told us it was life and we took them at their word, and we're so much the poorer for it that it's hard to know where to start to list the shortcomings." I wrote this a couple of years ago, but I have to admit it's much less amusing than I thought it would be to see the artifical construct falling apart.
THE NON-ELECTRIC HOME
Cleaning, 1 Cleaning, 2 Cleaning, 3
KNITTING BLOGS
Extravayarnza Knitting Heretic Mind of Winter Pie Knits Persistent Illusion See Eunny Knit The Keyboard Biologist Taleweaver's Ramblings TECHnitting Wendy Knits
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SELF-RELIANCE AND THE FUTURE
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How to Grow More Vegetables, etc. Small Scale Grain Raising
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