NCLB and military recruiting -- WTF?!?

[Toronto Ron]

My wife is a high school counselor. Today she gets an email from a school board bureaucrat saying that:

"Under the NCLB legislation, public schools are required to give lists of secondary school students’ names, their addresses, and their phone numbers to military recruiters. This information is to be used for recruiting purposes and for informing students about scholarship opportunities. The (school board) does not allow addresses and phone numbers to be given out as directory information, but NCLB supercedes our policy and we must provide them to recruiters."

This stinks. I knew NCLB sucks ass, but to the extent of preparing for a draft?!

Comments?

[ithacan]

1. it's about recruiting

But parents have the right to opt out, to ask that their kid's name is NOT released.

Different districts approach this differently. Our district sends out a note on this at the start of the year, so parents KNOW about this and that they can opt out.

Other districts though, I've heard, do not notify parents of their right to opt out, and so their kids are harrassed and harrassed, even at home, by military recruiters.

[Joy Anne]

2. been that way

for a couple of years. I think kids and/or parents are allowed to opt out. The Marines called my niece (about 80 pounds sopping wet) about a dozen times.

[Vickers]

3. Wow. So THAT is what NCLB means? Wow.

Just when I think I can't be blown away by anything anymore.

Wow.

[metisnation]

4. Yes I can explain this read please.

NCLB is a bill introduced to destroy education. It allows the classification of school above average average poor etc. by simply allow a judgement based on standardized testing(people learn in other ways educators call them modalities think about how you learn, visual auditory hands on). Student are assessed by a standardized test and if they fail to raise percentages of certain groups of students by a certain percentage then they threaten by saying the state can come in and take control of your school. The problem is schools are scrambling trying to implement teaching to the test fixes to "improve" some people will argue that the worst thing is the title I funding a school district will lose but it is the dropout rate that is the real concern for those who will not be able to reach the raised graduation requirements that some ask for. So there will be a percentage of kids for military recruiters to prey on. Essentially it will force kids from meeting graduation and put them on streets where no one will hire them at a living wage and will most likely increase Military enlistments.

I am an expert in this area.

[Toronto Ron]

6. Here's a question:

Why did the good Senator Kennedy support this POS?!

[TaleWgnDg]

5. The Quakers are a great group of folks . . . here's their take on it

http://www.afsc.org/news/2004/opting-out.htm

The Quakers are a religious sect who are pacifists. Their work in opposing war is legion.