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> No Child Unrecruited
> Posted on Thursday, November 07 @ 16:20:11 EST by JohnBrown
> Submitted by sv3n
> By David Goodman, Mother Jones [US]
>
> November/December 2002 Issue
> Should the military be given the names of every high school student in
> America?
> Sharon Shea-Keneally, principal of Mount Anthony Union High School in
> Bennington, Vermont, was shocked when she received a letter in May from
> military recruiters demanding a list of all her students, including
> names, addresses, and phone numbers. The school invites recruiters to
> participate in career days and job fairs, but like most school
> districts, it keeps student information strictly confidential. "We
> don't give out a list of names of our kids to anybody," says
> Shea-Keneally, "not to colleges, churches, employers -- nobody."
> But when Shea-Keneally insisted on an explanation, she was in for an
> even bigger surprise: The recruiters cited the No Child Left Behind
> Act, President Bush's sweeping new education law passed earlier this
> year. There, buried deep within the law's 670 pages, is a provision
> requiring public secondary schools to provide military recruiters not
> only with access to facilities, but also with contact information for
> every student -- or face a cutoff of all federal aid.
> "I was very surprised the requirement was attached to an education
> law," says Shea-Keneally. "I did not see the link."
> 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."
> To many educators, however, requiring the release of personal
> information intrudes on the rights of students. "We feel it is a clear
> departure from the letter and the spirit of the current student privacy
> laws," says Bruce Hunter, chief lobbyist for the American Association
> of School Administrators. Until now, schools could share student
> information only with other educational institutions. "Now other people
> will want our lists," says Hunter. "It's a slippery slope. I don't want
> student directories sent to Verizon either, just because they claim
> that all kids need a cell phone to be safe."
> The new law does give students the right to withhold their records. But
> school officials are given wide leeway in how to implement the law, and
> some are simply handing over student directories to recruiters without
> informing anyone -- leaving students without any say in the matter.
> "I think the privacy implications of this law are profound," says Jill
> Wynns, president of the San Francisco Board of Education. "For the
> federal government to ignore or discount the concerns of the privacy
> rights of millions of high school students is not a good thing, and
> it's something we should be concerned about."
> Educators point out that the armed services have exceeded their
> recruitment goals for the past two years in a row, even without access
> to every school. The new law, they say, undercuts the authority of some
> local school districts, including San Francisco and Portland, Oregon,
> that have barred recruiters from schools on the grounds that the
> military discriminates against gays and lesbians. Officials in both
> cities now say they will grant recruiters access to their schools and
> to student information -- but they also plan to inform students of
> their right to withhold their records.
> Some students are already choosing that option. According to Principal
> Shea-Keneally, 200 students at her school -- one-sixth of the student
> body -- have asked that their records be withheld.
> 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."
> http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2002/45/ma_153_01.html
> Related Links
> � More about Military & War
> � News by JohnBrown
> � The Pentagon site
> � U.S. Army website site
>
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