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Ferre
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 Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 1:38 pm Post subject: Leave My Child Alone! |
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Leave My Child Alone!
A Family Privacy Campaign to Protect Our High School Students From Unwanted Military Recruiting
Buried deep within the No Child Left Behind Act is a provision that requires public high schools to hand over private student information to military recruiters. The purpose of this invasion of family privacy is to allow minor students to be recruited at home by telephone calls, mail and personal visits. If a school does not comply, it risks losing vital federal education funds. The only way to keep your children’s contact information from military recruiters, is to submit an "opt-out" letter in writing to your school district’s superintendent.
This provision known as section 9528 was inserted with almost no debate into the No Child Left Behind Act by Rep. David Vitter of Louisiana, who learned from the Pentagon that many public schools had strict privacy policies protecting student information from being released to any outside parties, thus preventing aggressive military recruiting.
Working Assets convened the Leave My Child Alone! campaign in partnership with The Mainstreet Moms (The MMOB), and ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now).
READ MORE...AND OPT OUT!
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Can you sense the desperation for recruits?
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Parents need to know about the Opt Out option....
Randi Rhodes has been talking it up a lot on her Air America show...
http://www.airamericaradio.com/listen
Gives NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND a whole new meaning, eh?
Ben
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RogerChristie
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| Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 8:05 am Post subject: Thanks Ferre |
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Hey there Dutchman and friends,
Aloha. That's a brilliant piece of information. Very empowering. You do great work, my friend! Many thanks from Hawai'i.
Much love and deep respect,
Roger
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I found this little tidbit at the Working for a Change website.
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8.24.05
"Support the war? Go fight it!"A telling encounter between a recruiter and an affluent supporter of the war highlights the hypocrisy of some war supporters, as well as the broader relationship between social class and military recruitment.
From the Washington Post:
There has been much talk about the relationship between race and ethnicity and military recruitment. But what about social and economic class? Are wealthier Americans, who are more likely to be Republicans and therefore more likely to support the war, stepping up to the plate and urging their children and others from their communities to enlist?
Unfortunately, there has been no definitive study on this subject. But it appears that the affluent are not encouraging their children and peers to join the war effort on the battlefield.
The writer of the Post-Gazette article, Jack Kelly, explored this question in his story that ran on Aug. 11. Kelly wrote of a Marine recruiter, Staff Sgt. Jason Rivera, who went to an affluent suburb outside of Pittsburgh to follow up with a young man who had expressed interest in enlisting. He pulled up to a house with American flags displayed in the yard. The mother came to the door in an American flag T-shirt and openly declared her support for the troops.
But she made it clear that her support only went so far.
"Military service isn't for our son," she told Rivera. "It isn't for our kind of people." (full article here)
What kind of people is it for, then? Poor Latinos?
This kind of hypocrisy, might explain why Cindy Sheehan in interview after interview keeps asking: "why Jenna and Barbara and the other children of the architects of this disastrous war are not in harm's way, if the cause is so noble?"
And why a spate of new bumperstickers are appearing along the lines of: "DRAFT the Bush Twins!" and "Support the war? Go fight it!"
As well as the efforts of groups like Yellow Elephant, who are encouraging Young Republicans to sign up for Iraq duty.
Posted by Andrew Boyd at 3:10 PM
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