Back to School: Military Recruiters Increasingly Targeting High School Teens

[katty]

more: http://www.democracynow.org/2009/9/4/back_to_school_military_recruiters_increasingly

We speak with journalist David Goodman about his Mother Jones article “A Few Good Kids?” and with the New York Civil Liberties Union’s Ari Rosmarin, who works on the organization’s Project on Military Recruitment and Students’ Rights.


As millions of students prepare for the start of another school year, we turn to an issue that concerns many parents – the increasing presence of military recruiters in the nation’s high schools and the military’s ability to gather information about students.

Journalist David Goodman writes in the new issue of Mother Jones “Using data mining, stealth websites, career tests, and sophisticated marketing software, the Pentagon is harvesting and analyzing information on everything from high school students’ GPAs and SAT scores to which video games they play. Before an Army recruiter even picks up the phone to call a prospect, the soldier may know more about the kid’s habits than do his own parents.”

[cornermouse]

1. You can't run a war without cannon fodder.

I'm just grateful my kids aren't in high school any more.