Seattle Schools vs US Military

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Ya'll keep forgettin. In this new enlightened age, fighting is BAD.....
So giving your child a chance to join the "OMG! Military!" Is also BAD...
Freakin Sheep.:fire: :barf:
 
"The school is going to turn your name over to the military," Kutay says.
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Apparently this guy has never heard of Selective Service. :rolleyes:

And there are charges of racism.

Dustin Washington, a community activist, believes recruiters target students with lower incomes and minorities. He meets with high school students off-campus, during lunch hour, to encourage them to be wary of recruiters.
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Okay, but of course Affirmative Action and quota systems aren't racist... :scrutiny:
 
Disgusting. Hopefully this is just a few ex-hippies making most of the noise. That being said, I'm looking forward to the day when the attitude of seeking "balance" and "objectivity" between the objectively correct and the provably incorrect is seen as the mental defect that it is.
 
Dustin Washington, a community activist, believes recruiters target students with lower incomes and minorities.
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Of note is the fact that the "community activists" never offer any other plans for minorities and lower income students to (1) earn money for college and (2) obtain technical and vocational training after they graduate from high school. They're simply whiners about the military and seeking a cause, any cause ...

The Montgomery GI Bill, Army College Fund and Navy College Fund offer a considerable sum of money for higher education, with nothing else available for lower income youth (and presumably, the disadvantaged minorities) that even begins to compare ... Yeah, there's that little business of having to serve your country for four years, but some of the technical and vocational training one can obtain is also second to none ....
"The school is going to turn your name over to the military," Kutay says.
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And what this means is that the student (and student's household) may receive a handful of postcards from each branch's recruiting commands, and possibly a phonecall or two from recruiters. For most high-school kids, not a big deal in the great scheme of things.
 
I'm disappointed that because schools were getting so bad, Congress had to pass a law forcing them to allow access to military recruiters.

Years ago, schools were passing out personally identifiable information about students to every group that asked (except, in some peacenik districts, to military recruiters). The people had enough, so Congress passed the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) to stop the schools' practice.

Schools then got even more PC and wouldn't allow access to the building or students to groups they didn't like - church groups and the Boy Scouts after school hours, and military recruiters. Once again, it took an act of Congress - the Equal Access Act (requires that if the schools allow any group to use school facilities, they also have to allow religious groups to do so) and No Child Left Behind provisions requiring schools to allow the scouts to use the building after hours, and to allow miliitary recruiters to access to the students.

It's really disappointing that it took the heavy hand of Congress to force the schools to rein in their political views and use common sense.

By the way, FERPA requires every school district or local education agency to publish an annual (at least) announcement in the primary newspaper of the jurisdiction that advises parents of the student information privacy policy, and specifically that the school must release directory information to military recruiters, and that parents can opt out of having their child's information on the info list that goes to recruiters. Can't these peaceniks read?
 
How about using the phone book and calling the recruiter it you want to enlist?
 
IMHO, if you give student info to colleges, it should go to anyone that wants to recruit them for post-High School occupation.

As for:
Dustin Washington, a community activist, believes recruiters target students with lower incomes and minorities. He meets with high school students off-campus, during lunch hour, to encourage them to be wary of recruiters
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I'm not poor or black by anyone's standards, and for a while I was getting at least a call a week.

How about using the phone book and calling the recruiter it you want to enlist?
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I have no problem with that either, as long as no one is getting your information.

It oughta be all or none.
 
What is wrong with targeting poor and minorities. These people have the most to gain by joining the military. They can earn good money as well as go to school when they get out of the service. A Honerable discharge looks good on a resume.
 
I would prefer that schools did not give out lists of contact information.

Why should the US military get a spam list?
 
Uh, guys?

Again, I must bring up Selective Service. All males ages 18-25 will be registered anyway, so who cares if recruiters create and maintain a mailing list one or two years before then???
 
Isn't the real issue here an emotional one? You have American citizens whose freedoms are grounded in military sacrifice showing raw contempt for the institution. If they can't or won't actively support our military then the least they can do is get the hell out of the way and shut up. People don't cotton to ingrates and parasites and narcissists--it's human nature. Certainly there's plenty of "recruiting" on campuses these days for dubious causes and enterprises.
 
Is "community activist" a new university degree??????????? :evil: Am I supposed to be impressed?
 
Ummm, when I turned 18 I got a Mach3 razor In the mail with a letter noting " for your 18 birhtday, a gift from all of us!" .............. Sooooooooooooooo how did they know I was 18 and male and my address? umm, Well the schools give that information out. ........ so I can get marketed to by a large corporation, but I cant have a recruter send me a free t-shirt?:banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
 
This effort is already in effect in Berzerkeley. Wonder it didn't get to Seattle sooner (must have skipped Portland...)
 
my only beef when I was coming of age was the constant harassment on the phone, they are pushier than telemarketers. I remember one day one of them showed up at my home, unannounced, when I specifically told them I did NOT want to meet and discuss my options. I had no interest in joining and had solid plans for college already. they even called me a few years later to see if college was going good and if I may have had a change of heart.

maybe it was just this one particular recruiter, but he was more like a stalker.
 
I got calls for about 1 calender year. Big whoop. I politely declined each time. Wow, I don't know what I would have done if some hippie didn't protect me from myself.....oh wait.
 
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