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  • From: "Toni Hawryluk" <tonihawr AT msn.com>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Military Recruiters
  • Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 18:08:42 -0700

> 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.

Well, since there's a scarcity of jobs, it's one way
to trim the work force - and high school is plenty
education for 18-year-olds - now they can go out
and learn to maim and kill. They'll be at risk, too,
of course, but what's that to a President who has
never been under fire himself, has no sons, but has
enough pull to keep his daughters home if they
don't want to go ....





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