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  • From: "Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>
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  • Subject: [Homestead] Military Recruiters Demand Names of Students
  • Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 11:53:16 -0700

Military Recruiters Demand Names Of U.S. High Schoolers
A Dream Puppet Blodspot
10-15-4

Mother Jones tells us: 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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Oh... so that's what No Child Left Behind means. Makes sense now. No Child
Unrecruited

http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2002/11/ma_153_01.html


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