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Tuesday, June 07, 2005

Parental consent is only about female sexual behavior
Posted by Jill | 3:33 PM

Remember all the hue and cry about parental consent/notification laws, and about how parents have a right to know what's happening to their child?

Apparently that right is only about their daughters' sex lives, not about whether their sons and daughters are being pressured into enlisting into the military.

Leave My Child Alone is a family privacy campaign to protect high school students from unwanted proseletyzing and pressure from the military:

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.


Think about it. Your child's school is REQUIRED to provide the military with information for contacting your child....at your home....with or without your permission.

This is how the Bush Administration plans to get by without a draft...they plan to send recruiters promising the world to gullible high schoolers -- many of whom can't afford college and have limited prospects at best.

And the wingnuts don't give a shit about THAT kind of parental notification.
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