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No Child Left Behind really means Every Child Recruited for the Military. Check out the Leave My Child Alone website for more information on how to help get recruiters out of our high schools.
posted by tabitha jane @ 11:41 AM
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thanks for the comment lbb.
my thoughts are that i think it is sneaky the way this whole thing is being hanndled. they are bribing the schools to give out names and personal information of their students so that the schools can get the money they so desperately need. if they don't give the info, they don't get the money.
sneaky is not the kind of government that i would like to have.
my other problem with it is that they are getting information about MINORS from this regulation. i mean, really? minors?!?! what is the need for this? if i had children who were minors (say 14 or 16 years old), i would not want them to get unsolicited offers from any organization be it the military or even a talent agency. i would want them to go through me first. i can understand getting the address of someone who is old enough to make their own decisions and vote and drive and drink and all of that, but seriously, leave my kids alone until they aren't kids any more. send your own kids to war first.
but i do understand your point about "if this doesn't happen, the draft will." i just think that there must be a less-sneaky way of going about it all.
nothing makes mothers feel less safe than knowing that their kids aren't even protected from the government anymore. they should be able to feel that they can send their child to school without worrying . . . but that is a whole other can that i am not about to open (school violence, gangs, bullies, whatever else kids meet up with in school these days).
maybe when i have children i will lock them away for their safety . . .
You bring up an interesting point. I think that the movie Born on the Fourth of July said something about that. Shouldn't they try to recruit older men and women who are more mature? Why target young immature high school kids?
probably because they are naive and idealistic . . .
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