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16.10.04, 15:56
Military Recruiters Demand Names of All U.S. High Schoolers
Send us to Iran.
Mother Jones tells us:
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