Uncle Sam Wants Your Teenager
The Federal Government is demanding that high schools provide them with names of students, to be used for military recruitment. Schools are worried.
Under the No Child Left Behind Act, which was passed more than a year ago, schools face new requirements on testing and the hiring of teachers. But many school districts are only now coming to terms with a little-noticed provision in the law dealing with military recruiters. That provision requires schools that receive federal aid to give military recruiters the names, addresses, and phone number of high school juniors and seniors, and to provide military recruiters with the same access to students as employers and college recruiters get. There is an exception, though. Students and parents must be given an opportunity to request that the information be withheld."So spread the word, you have a right to refuse.
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