I just had to sign my son's opt-out form for sharing info w/ military.

[Ilsa]

Yeah, the NCLB form had to be signed and returned. He is 7 years old and in the second grade, but I don't want anyone figuring out his age and eligibility when he is 18.

Geez. What are we coming to. He can barely manage to get his homework done.

[jwirr]

1. Good for you. I hate that commercial on TV where the young man

is telling his mother he found someone who will pay for his college cost. It is an outright lie. Maybe in none war years it worked but now you have to stay alive long enough to get to college.

[Ilsa]

3. Thanks. My kid is ADD, and I hope we can get it corrected. But I

don't even want the military tracking his age and grade level for fear that if we hold him back once or twice, they might try to entice him to drop out and join up when he's 18. part of the fascists' program.

[Bozita]

12. Thursday's NYT had a frontpage article on longevity and heredity

Height is 85% heritable.
ADHD 75%
Memory 22%

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I think you did the right thing, Ilsa.

[pnwmom]

2. They'll still know his age and eligibility.

He has a social security card, doesn't he? And you claim him as a dependent in your taxes, I presume. And every state has a bureau of vital statistics with birth certificate information.

So he'll still get a notice about registration for the draft. What he won't get (if they follow the law) are recruitment calls before he turns 18.

[Ilsa]

4. Hopefully, we'll be able to help him stay on board in school

and he'll want college. I hate that they have any info on him.

[pnwmom]

5. Believe me, I know.

It made me sick when my son had to register.

By the way, I realized another way they probably get lots of names -- driver's licenses. What 18 yr. old boy doesn't want to have one of those?

[sleipnir]

11. If he wants financial aid for college, he will have to register for draft.

There's no way to get around it. CO status doesn't even enter into the picture, your son will still have to register for the draft, if he wants ANY Federal financial aid. Funny thing is, this is only for males. Females, at this point, do not have to register to be eligible for aid.

What you are doing will help keep the recruiters phone calls away, but the Fed Gov. has basically made it impossible for anyone who is not wealthy to avoid registering for the draft.

[thingsarelookingup]

9. We don't get the opt-out until 6th grade

I've worked registration at my 6-12 secondary school for two years in a row and I've made it my mission to make sure parents know exactly what will happen if they don't sign the form. Opt-out is so sneaky rather than an opt-in.

I know that on my campus 1800 registrations go through and only a handful chose not to sign them once they knew what it was for.

[mrcheerful]

6. Seems that we are on the path to the youth corp in amerika, brown shirts,

black pants with hob nail boots for the new public school system dress codes next? My girl friend also had to sign the form to keep the military out of her son's records, he's 15. The school, Union High, was also trying to get her to sign the boy up for ROTC classes, they were really pushing it this year with be a "real" american parent thyme.

[pnwmom]

7. What part of the country are you in? That's scary. n/t

[mrcheerful]

14. Michigan, in the heart of republican land where even street bums

cheer for shrub.

[marmar]

18. Republican Land?

Where in our great (blue) state are you?

[lonestarnot]

8. Teach him now... "FUCK YOU RECRUITER BIATCH"

[never_get_over_it]

10. How exactly does one go about doing this

I have three nephews 5, 8 and 12 - I want their Mother to do this but I don't know what she needs to do....can you help me understand what she should do?

[lonestarnot]

13. Call the district office and request the forms, one for ea. kid.

[jerry611]

15. Well, you still technically have to register with Selective Service

It is federal law that all males must register with the Selective Service System when they turn age 18. The Selective Service is a database established after the Vietnam war that will opperate a lottery system in the event congress and the president authorize another military draft.

Technically he could face fines or jail if he refuses to register. However there has not been a single case that was prosecuted.
But if you do refuse to register, your son cannot recieve any federal money for education, cannot recieve any federal grants, and government will never employ him.

[Cleita]

16. Somewhere in my child free life, I must have missed the memo.

Back in my day even with the draft, no one signed up until they were about seventeen. Since when do little children have to be entered into the system for anything other than the milk progams, school lunches and vaccinations? I am horrifed!

[Union Thug]

17. I have two boys... and the military will have to kill me to get them

No child of mine will ever die in a rich man's war.

You keep your kid safe now!