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Personal Information with Pentagon
Parents Must Submit Request to Opt-Out
No Child Left Behind
Pentagon Program Studying Beliefs, Perceptions,
Attitudes of, and Marketing to American Youth
JAMRS Promoting War-Fighting as Career Choice
OPT-OUT: The Arlington West Memorial at Santa Monica Beach, California. Photo coutesy: Santa Monica Chapter of Veterans for Peace, and, Veterans for Peace L.A. Chapter.
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According to the government, when it comes to alcohol, 21 is the age one may legally purchase an adult beverage. The government and tobacco companies agree it is 18 years of age when one is adult enough to decide to start smoking and purchase a package of cigarettes.
Some private businesses – movie theatres and theme parks – may charge all persons 13 and over adult admission to enter. Once inside, the 15-year-old at
Among the most important decision any young person can make is the choice to volunteer for military service. The consequences are grave – life and death – and if one survives the experience they may live out the remainder of their life maimed, mutilated, mentally traumatized, blinded, severely burned, or without a leg, or an arm, or one of each, or have no limbs.
For some veterans, keeping their limbs is of no consequence due to battle wounds resulting in paralysis. For others, although physically unharmed, emotional wounds lead to depression, homelessness, or worse yet, suicide.
The law states 18-year-olds are too young, immature and irresponsible to legally belly up to a bar and buy a beer, yet, has the maturity to make a decision of such gravity as selling themselves to the government to be used as cannon fodder. This is especially dangerous in this era of
The pentagon’s interest in your child does not begin at 18 because under No Child Left Behind any local agency receiving assistance under the Act is compelled by law to provide names, addresses and telephone listing of students upon request by a military recruiter.
Many are under the mistaken impression that 11th and 12th grade students are the only students impacted by the federal mandate to surrender their personal information. This is untrue because No Child Left Behind (NCLB) language does not identify students falling under the mandate by grade.
Part E, Uniform Provisions, Section 9528, Armed Forces Recruiter Access To Students And Student Recruiting Information of NCLB reads, “access to secondary school students names, addresses, and telephone listings.”
Secondary school begins with 7th grade where many students are pre-teen – 12 years old – and continues up to and includes a high school senior.
The local agency, or school district, is not required to inform parents their child’s information has been requested by a military recruiter and is on file at the pentagon.
Under NCLB a parent must submit a “request” for their children’s information not to be shared. This is dome by providing their child’s school with a signed form indicating no personal information is to be released without written parental consent.
Schools are required to notify parents of their option to make the “request” and are legally obligated to honor the parent’s opting out. School districts meet this requirement by including a personal information opt-out from within their generic student information packet provided to each pupil upon registration, or on the first day of school.
But Parents should not look for a particular form identified as an opt-out form specifically targeting military recruiters and NCLB. This because many school districts utilize a generic one-size-fits-all opt-out form allowing parents to require the school to not release any of their child’s information to any third party absent written parental consent.
Also under NCLB, beginning with 7th graders, schools are compelled to provide military recruiters the same access to their students as the school would colleges and trade schools.
Honoring the First Amendment’s guarantee of Freedom of Religion, private secondary schools maintaining a religious objection to service in the
Ignoring the Tenth Amendment, NCLB targeted
Proposed by President Bush shortly after taking office in 2001, NCLB was approved with bi-partisan support in congress just a few months before 9/11 – the House in May, and the Senate in June – but not signed into law by Bush until seven months later on January 8, 2002.
Following are phone numbers to the superintendent’s office for the Palmdale, Lancaster, and AV Union High School Districts for parents who did not return the opt-out form provided in their child’s information packet and wish now to submit the request.
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To learn more about the federal government’s targeting and marketing military service to minors, visit: www.jamrs.org.
To learn more about activist efforts to inform students about their personal information being requested by a military recruiter to be stored on file at the pentagon, visit the Topanga Peace Alliance website at: www.topangapeacealliance.org, or visit them on Facebook.
For more on other efforts, visit: www.criticalconcern.com/optout.
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