Uncle Sam Wants Your Kids and 'No Child Left Behind' is Giving Them Up!

In an excellent article regarding military recruitment on area high school campuses, this week's Phoenix, AZ New Times writer John Dougherty gives insight on how this is happening and what you can do about it:

"Passed three months after September 11, 2001, the No Child Left Behind Act requires secondary schools receiving federal funds (which is just about every high school in the country) to provide military recruiters, upon request, the names, addresses and phone numbers of students."

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"The No Child Left Behind Act states:

'A secondary school student or the parent of the student may request that the student's name, address and telephone listing . . . not be released without prior written parental consent, and the local educational agency or private school shall notify parents of the option to make a request and shall comply with any request.'

My advice to parents is to forget about the forms provided by school districts. If you want a form to present to your child's district that blocks his information from getting handed over to the military but allows it to be given to the likes of colleges and scholarship funds, go to http://www.militaryfreezone.org/opt_out.

The time to act is now."

Here's the Military Free Zone opt-out link.