rodeodance
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Mon Dec-13-04 07:40 PM
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Regruiters calling themselves 'couselors' in High schools |
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Jim Lehrer has a good story on tonight about military recriters in high schools who call themselves couselors--they stress the good points about what the milatary and do not even mention Irag and the wars when are in. When asked about this one counselor --(recruiter) said that they are not CNN--that the students already know about the wars. Good grief.
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Mon Dec-13-04 07:43 PM
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Mon Dec-13-04 07:44 PM
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2. Oh, Silly, it's someone who cruits again |
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I can make typos also, no problem.
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Mon Dec-13-04 07:49 PM
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3. Are these "counselors" in uniform? |
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Sounds manipulative to rename themselves "counselors."
Also, do they go to each and every high school, and if not how do they pick, I wonder?
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Mon Dec-13-04 07:49 PM
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4. Went to a sports hat store,two marine recruiters,told me this |
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is what they had been reduced to,hawking at lowest denominator locals where young people,tread.Halliburton schooling the councilors?
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Mon Dec-13-04 07:55 PM
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5. Gotta avoid that draft at all costs |
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The military has already creamed the best and the brightest; they're reduced to hitting on the trapped and the ignorant. Think of it as the ersatz Lothario right after the bartender announces last call. All the turndowns are suddenly a LOT more attractive if he isn't going to go home alone tonight.
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Mon Dec-13-04 08:14 PM
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go after the ones that will be recruited; the poor minority.
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Mon Dec-13-04 08:31 PM
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7. I saw that story tonight. |
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You could tell those recruiters knew they were manipulating the kids. Counselors, indeed!!
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Mon Dec-13-04 09:09 PM
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8. I am a school counselor in Texas |
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and under the Patriot Act, we are required to allow recruiters into the school and have contact with the students. Now, as a draft-dodger similar to our illustrious pResident, I have reservations. He and I both joined the National guard to escape Vietnam. I, however, served in an armored personnel carrier (MOS 11E) for six FULL years. While I have misgivings about aspects of the military, I have seen some of my former students really become better people from the service. And they do get an education. I have not had ANY experiences with recruiters posing as anything but exactly what they are-- in uniform-- and they have not skirted the hard questions from my kids. I didn't see the Lehrer piece, so I can't address it, but I have no complaints about the recruiters I have contact with.
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