Students rebuffing military recruiters - 5000+ in Mass. alone

[donsu]

http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2005/11/13/students_rebuffing_military_recruiters/


More than 5,000 high school students in five of the state's largest school districts have removed their names from military recruitment lists, a trend driven by continuing casualties in Iraq and a well-organized peace movement that has urged students to avoid contact with recruiters.

The number of students removing their names has jumped significantly over the past year, especially in school systems with many low-income and minority students, where parents and activists are growing increasingly assertive in challenging military recruiters' access to young people.

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''There's momentum you can see," said Felicity Crush, spokeswoman for the San Francisco-based Leave My Child Alone project. ''As soon as people become aware of it, they start to take action."

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And for some students, the military remains an attractive option. Alan Bonifaz, a senior at Madison Park, wants to be an auto technician, and thinks the military will offer training, money, and adventure. ''I'm inspired by people going to war," said the 18-year-old.
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good grief, someone clue Alan in on the realities of the bushgang war.

[catmother]

1. don't tell o'reilly. he'll send al quada. n/t

[chelsea0011]

2. Hell, people like O'Lielly think us Massachusians are an al Queda

breeding ground anyway.

[fed-up]

3. I am working on getting son's HS to change their OPT OUT form, there is a

great one to used at http://www.leavemychildalone.org
.
Last year's form was great, then for this year the secretary of the Asst Superintendant changed the forms and added a notation that if the parent checked the opt out of sending info to the military box then the student's info would NOT be sent to the yearbook, newspapers, etc. (done on purpose or just a complete bimbo?)

I am asking that the OPT OUT form be a stand alone form and those parents that want to exclude their child's info from other places do so on a separate form.