Amerikan Military: All Your Children Are Belong To Us
Major Variola (ret)
mv at cdc.gov
Thu Nov 7 09:20:40 PST 2002
Sharon Shea-Keneally, principal of Mount Anthony Union High School in
Bennington, Vermont, was shocked when she received a
letter in May
from military recruiters demanding a list of all her
students, including names,
addresses, and phone numbers. The school invites
recruiters to participate
in career days and job fairs, but like most school
districts, it keeps student
information strictly confidential. "We don't give out
a list of names of our
kids to anybody," says Shea-Keneally, "not to
colleges, churches,
employers -- nobody."
But when Shea-Keneally insisted on an
explanation, she was in for an even bigger
surprise: The recruiters cited the No Child Left
Behind Act, President Bush's sweeping new
education law passed earlier this year. There,
buried deep within the law's 670 pages, is a
provision requiring public secondary schools to
provide military recruiters not only with access
to facilities, but also with contact information for
every student -- or face a cutoff of all federal
aid.
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http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2002/45/ma_153_01.html
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