Anchorage School District indefinitely bans military recruiters.

[Blue_In_AK]

In light of the Alaska National Guard scandal, the Anchorage School District has taken action.

http://www.adn.com/article/20141020/anchorage-school-district-indefinitely-bans-military-recruiters

On the heels of scathing allegations against the Alaska Army National Guard, the Anchorage School District has indefinitely halted all military recruiting at its schools, according to Heidi Embley, district spokeswoman.

Ed Graff, district superintendent, alerted all branches of the military Monday that they could no longer recruit on school property until they met individually with Graff to "discuss student safety and other issues," Embley said.

Graff was in a board meeting Monday evening and could not be immediately reached for comment.

Embley said Graff's action came in the wake of media reports on leaked investigative files that describe sexual misconduct in the Alaska Army National Guard, some accounts involving high schoolers.

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The back story is here: http://www.adn.com/article/20141018/national-guard-documents-detail-chronic-misconduct-among-recruiting-leaders

[roguevalley]

1. Parnell needs to fry. This is good news, Blue

[Blue_In_AK]

2. Yes. Yes, he does.

I'm feeling fairly positive about this particular race. People are outraged.

[J_J_]

3. I just logged in to post this (good news for a change!)

more...

According to the files, a former student at Dimond High School in Anchorage said that an officer repeatedly asked her out on dates. The woman said that the officer told her she was pretty and that her eyes “stunned” him. When he tried to take her to his home, she jumped out of the car and used a stranger’s phone to call her father for help.

Two other former Dimond High students said the same officer invited them to parties where there would be alcohol. They were underage. A sergeant said the officer bragged about having sex with several people, including a high school student, according to the files prepared between 2010 and 2014.

In a statement Monday, Candis Olmstead, public affairs director for the Alaska Army National Guard, wrote that the guard was
“Disappointed that the Anchorage School District feels that they have to keep our recruiters off of their campuses.”

One would think they would say, "Sorry" "We cannot believe our recruiters did that" "We are doing everything we can to hold these people accountable"

Instead we get "What...What's your problem"

[Blue_In_AK]

4. The coverup runs deep ...

I think I read something yesterday where now they're going after the Anchorage Press for leaking the documents.

[J_J_]

6. this is going to take down the whole house of cards

They got away with stealing 2 Billion per year...

but then they all come crashing down with this side issue.

Sullivan is implicated, the entire legislature that ignored it for so many years...

MANY are asking----where is the accountability for these rapists?

No one has gone to jail yet...something clearly is wrong with the justice system as well....

[Blue_In_AK]

10. I hope you're right.

I'm worried that Sullivan might manage to buy the Senate seat. Have you seen the ad with Condi Rice? As if we haven't had enough of Bush policies. Sheesh...

I'm hopeful that Begich's ground game in the villages will be enough to put him over the top.

And, yes, there are so many members of the Corrupt Bastards Club still in the state legislature. They must go. I'm on the west side, so am pulling for Clare Ross and Matt Claman.

[MissB]

5. As a Dimond alumni

I can't say that parties with alcohol would be particularly shocking. Kids at that school had access to plenty of anything. Probably still do unless the socioeconomics have changed.

But adults doing this stuff? And the Guard at that? Holy hell. The Guard's public affairs person could be way more sensitive or savvy. I applaud Graff for taking the stance he has taken.

(And I don't remember the Guard being in campus back in the day. But Dimond was a huge school and probably still is so I probably just missed that they existed.)

[J_J_]

7. I don't remember the Guard being in campus back in the day.

After 9/11, Bush used it as an excuse to force schools to accept recruiters.

[Blue_In_AK]

9. My oldest daughter is a Dimond alum also.

1990. She never had any interest in the military, so I can't say how recruiting was when she was there. But, yes, I think a lot changed after 9/11.

[MissB]

11. Ah, so she too was at the old school

with C-square. I swear that high school design was the most idiotic ever - designed for California but plunked down in Anchorage!

I graduated a few years before your daughter so she was probably in HS when I was getting ready to graduate.

I happened to spend some time at the school's website a few months back and was surprised to see Junior ROTC as an option at the school. Maybe that was post-9/11 too?

[J_J_]

8. Oh, look, they fired two women over this

Brig. Gen. Catherine Jorgensen was removed from her post as Army Guard chief of staff and that Col. Edith Grunwald lost her job as director of human resources for the Alaska National Guard, the second time their departures were announced this month.

This is who was responsible for sexual assaults and the coverups?