FYI, No Child Left Behind has a dirty secret

[taxed]

From The State (a paper in South Carolina): "Today, military recruiters have unprecedented access to public schools. The little-known Section 9528 of the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 grants the Pentagon access to directories of all public high schools (supplying them with student names, addresses and phone numbers) to facilitate contact for military service recruitment.

Additionally, military recruitment efforts are omnipresent inside our public schools. Recruiters walk freely around high school cafeterias in uniforms and talk to students. They hang posters on the school walls. They loiter in the parking lots. A recent Richland 1 career fair for eighth graders, held at Fort Jackson, had those representing careers other than the military confined behind tables and answering three short questions, while military personnel operated in groups wandering around, intercepting and talking to children at will."

www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/columnists/10967504.htm
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Personally, I think this goes a little too far. If George W. is this desperate to get kids to go to war, he needs to send his two daughters to set an example.

[wittzo]

It's always been that way. Our phone rang off the hook getting calls from all the recruiters. I don't know how they knew we were there, but they started calling us by our first names to get by our parents in the late 80's. The last time I vividly remember my brother getting a call. Daddy said,"John it's for you, I think it's a friend." John said,"Hello?" "This is Sgt. So and So, I was wondering if you wanted to talk for a little bit about your future." My brother said,"Oh, I thought this was someone worth talking to." and hung up.

This was before we were 18 and signed up for the draft and before we took the ASVAB.

[taxed]

I have no doubt most schools have been helping military recruiters by supplying them with names and addresses for years. I can attest to that with all of the bothersome phone calls I got when I was a senior, too.

However, technically it is against the law for personal high school information to be shared with anybody without your, or your parents permission. I'm sure there were alot of schools that abided by that rule.

Either way, why put this military rule in a program like "No Child Left Behind". Since it happened in 2001, I'm sure it was put in there prior to 9/11. This is probably another example of junk getting put into bills meant for something else.

[Pontotocmom]

I thought they got the numbers when you took the ASVAB test. My oldest daughter was called a lot. But the daughter who skipped grades wasn't hardly called. I figured it was age she graduated early and so she wasn't 17.

[wittzo]

Oh yeah, don't forget when you sign up for the draft, the government gets all kinds of information on you. They might be supplying the DOD with it and filtering it down to the recruiters..

[dulce]

taxed said:

Personally, I think this goes a little too far. If George W. is this desperate to get kids to go to war, he needs to send his two daughters to set an example.

recruiters have been in the schools long before W was elected. colleges are free to walk around as well, they are by no means "confined". doesn't make it right but it seems the post just needed merit to slam the Pres.