Concerns raised over school privacy notice (NCLB)

[katinmn]

Concerns raised over school privacy notice

Sybil Arum's eighth-grade granddaughter came home this week worried that she was on the verge of being drafted by the military and sent off to war.

The reason for her fear was the Department of Education's annual privacy notice, which says contact information for secondary students as young as sixth-graders may be released to military recruiters unless the student, parent or legal guardian requests otherwise.

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2004/Dec/17/ln/ln11p.html

edit: link

[Johnny Noshoes]

1. What the ---

SIXTH GRADE!? We are in another whole galaxy now friends and its a really REALLY bad back alley of the universe.

"You don't go to war with the president you want.
You go to war with the president you have."
-- Randi Rhodes


"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely,the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
-- H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)

[katinmn]

2. public schools must release info to recruiters or lose funding

It's part of that WONDERFUL No Child Left Behind Act.

more from the article:
"The release of information is part of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, which requires all school systems receiving NCLB money to make the contact information available to military recruiters or risk losing federal money. The law also requires schools to give military recruiters the same on-campus access they would give to prospective employers, colleges and other post-secondary education institutions."
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You know, I think we're going to be ok. All the shit that the Right Wing Nuts have wrought is coming home to roost.


I wish awareness would come faster. I wish all of this had never happened. But we are seeing the unraveling of Rove's compact against America.
:)

[Lone_Star_Dem]

4. That's right, no child left behind by the military.

Don't ya just love it? It was a perfect way to exploit school enrollment lists.

[Johnny Noshoes]

5. I knew

it was part of NCLB but I didn't know it could apply all the way down to Sixth Grade. Do people READ legislation before they vote on it!? Yeah I know they're busy but damn man somebody on staff needs to read this crap and tell these people that the bill sucks and they should vote no. There's got to be a better way to do business in Congress.

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely,the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
-- H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)

[Liberty Belle]

3. The trouble with opting out....

Is that the school can't give your child's info out to ANYONE--including colleges. So your student won't get invitations to attend the choice schools unless you also let the miltiary recruiters have at 'em.