- Mother Jones tells us:
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- 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."
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- 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.
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- Oh... so that's what No Child Left Behind means. Makes
sense now.
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- No Child Unrecruited
- http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2002/11/ma_153_01.html
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- http://adreampuppet.blogspot.com/2004/10/military-recruiters-demand-names-of.html
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