Protesters Object to Military Recruiting (in FL high schools)

[henslee]

BY PETER BAILEY [e-mail]

Activists visited high school campuses to tell students about their right to opt out of a law requiring schools to release students' personal information to military recruiters.

Aileen Brousseau was dumbfounded when military recruiters called her house six times last year to speak to her daughter Maeze, a junior at Coral Reef Senior High. Then there was the avalanche of recruiting mail addressed to her daughter, Brousseau said. ''I couldn't believe how they got her information,'' she said. ``We talk about privacy, but we don't have any.''

Wednesday morning, Brousseau and a group of antiwar activists shuffled through a mass of students outside Coral Gables Senior High, armed with fliers detailing how to keep their personal information away from military recruiters. Others groups visited two other senior highs, Coral Reef and Southridge, before and after school Wednesday to pass out pamphlets.

Under the No Child Left Behind Act, the military -- which has seen a significant downturn in recruits as fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan drags on -- can ask schools around the country for students' names, phone numbers and home addresses.The 2002 law also requires school officials to notify parents or students that they can refuse to release personal information....

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/education/12353155.htm

[meganmonkey]

1. Good for them!

more anti-war press = GOOD!!!!

:bounce:

[ElsewheresDaughter]

2. Mothers Against Draft.org....link

http://www.mothersagainstthedraft.org/

Is all the talk about a return to conscription just an internet rumor for the gullible or are there real reasons why every mother and father in America ought to be more than a little concerned that a new kind of draft may be on the horizon?

There are few questions of more serious consequence to the future of our children and grandchildren than whether Congress will institute some form of compulsory service.

As mothers and citizens, we have a right to know, and a duty to find out, where Congress stands on this critical issue. If you share our concerns, please join us today and make your voice heard.

Because the best time to stop the draft is BEFORE it starts!

No Child Left Behind Opt-Out Form

[Sequoia]

3. Love the baby boat pic

But when I relpy the picture keeps changing. Magic?

[henslee]

4. Private info, personal data/ profiles of kids should not be given

to recruiters. School is for learning.

[Supersedeas]

5. courage on so many levels