Rattle wrote: ] Disturbing article about a provision of the No Child Left ] Behind Act, which forces public secondary schools to give ] military recruiters the names and addresses of attending ] students or get their federal aid cut. An act that lives up to ] its title. Some choice pieces of this article: ] 'The military complained this year that up to 15 percent ] of the nation's high schools are "problem schools" for ] recruiters. In 1999, the Pentagon says, recruiters were ] denied access to 19,228 schools. Rep. David Vitter, a ] Republican from Louisiana who sponsored the new ] recruitment requirement, says such schools "demonstrated ] an anti-military attitude that I thought was offensive." ] ... ] Recruiters are up-front about their plans to use school ] lists to aggressively pursue students through mailings, ] phone calls, and personal visits -- even if parents ] object. "The only thing that will get us to stop ] contacting the family is if they call their congressman," ] says Major Johannes Paraan, head U.S. Army recruiter for ] Vermont and northeastern New York. "Or maybe if the kid ] died, we'll take them off our list." ' BTW, it is now Anti-American (implied) to be a pacifist. You are with us or against us. Three little words: Hitler Youth Corp Witness the slow regression of your country. RE: Military Demanding Names of Children |