No Child Left Behind, as far as Military service is concerned.

by Chris   ⋅   May 13, 2005   ⋅   Comment now   ⋅    RSS

Apparently the No Child Left Behind act has a little know clause that requires schools to give the contact information of their students to military recruitment officials. If the schools do not comply, they run the risk of getting their funding cut.

I thought this was a bit interesting because out of curiosity I attended my school’s annual Career Faire today, and about 2 of the 41 tables were operated by Army recruitment.

Here’s the alert from Act for Change:

Leave My Child Alone! A Family Privacy Campaign to Protect Our High School Students From Unwanted Military Recruiting

Buried deep within the No Child Left Behind Act is a provision that requires public high schools to hand over private student information to military recruiters. The purpose of this invasion of family privacy is to allow minor students to be recruited at home by telephone calls, mail and personal visits. If a school does not comply, it risks losing vital federal education funds. The only way to keep your children’s contact information from military recruiters, is to submit an “opt-out” letter in writing to your school district’s superintendent.

This provision known as section 9528 was inserted with almost no debate into the No Child Left Behind Act by Rep. David Vitter of Louisiana, who learned from the Pentagon that many public schools had strict privacy policies protecting student information from being released to any outside parties, thus preventing aggressive military recruiting.

You can read more here.

And sign the petition here.

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