2.04.02 opting out of military databases
Invasion of the Body Snatchers Workshop: Maps, Links, and Videos
Posted June 23rd, 2010 by sdiener- 1.18.02 militarization of youth
- 1.18.03 military recruiting and conscription
- 2.01.02 resistance within the military
- 2.04 countering military recruitment
- 2.04.01 equal access to schools for peace advocates
- 2.04.02 opting out of military databases
- 2.04.03 countering mobile military recruiting
- 2.04.04 countering JROTC
- 2.04.05 countering ASVAB and military testing
- 2.04.06 exposing realities of life in the military
- 2.04.07 alternatives to military jobs
- GIS
- maps
- United States
- USSF2010
- videos
- workshops
Despite being in a distant building at Wayne State University, and being in a room that took me half an hour to find once I arrived at the building, a team of us from the National Network Opposed to the Militarization of Youth (including primarily the American Friends Service Committee's Youth and Militarism Program, the War Resisters League, and Peace Action Wisconsin) facilitated an
Students Can Opt Themselves Out So That Schools Don't Hand Their Info to Military Recruiters
Posted September 30th, 2009 by sdiener- 1.18.02 militarization of youth
- 1.18.03 military recruiting and conscription
- 2.04.02 opting out of military databases
- 3.02.02 Peace movement organizations and coalitions
- 3.05.05 social empowerment
- 3.06.04 nonviolent secondary school education
- 3.06.08 education policies and systems
- 4.01.02 petitions
- 4.04.01 calls for resistance
- 5.01.01 strategies for nonviolent social change - how to
- 5.03.03 community building
- 5.13.01 countering discrimination against younger people
- 5.13.03 organizing across generational lines
- counter-recruitment
- how to mobilize
- NCLB
- No Child Left Behind
- opt-out
- student organizing
- student rights
- United States
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 (NCLB) required schools to hand over identifying student information to military recruiters. Military recruiters routinely use these lists to try to meet their quota, known as their "mission," by making repeated and persistent phone calls to students and family members. And in order to meet these quotas, too many military recruiters lie to students (see a compilation of military recruiters caught lying on tape).
