Keeping military recruiters away from high school students

Did you know that parents have the right to prevent military recruiters
from contacting their children while at school?
The schools are supposed to send home a form for the parents to
sign and send back that indicates that military recruiters are not
to be allowed to contact their child at school.

Some parents are not aware of this provision and it often gets
overlooked at the start of the school year.

http://www.freep.com/news/education/...e_20050426.htm

stonej wrote:
Did you know that parents have the right to prevent military recruiters
from contacting their children while at school?
The schools are supposed to send home a form for the parents to
sign and send back that indicates that military recruiters are not
to be allowed to contact their child at school.

Some parents are not aware of this provision and it often gets
overlooked at the start of the school year.

If recruitment today is anything like it was at my high school, where
the military gave the equivalent of a parade once a year and set up
cafeteria booths several times a year, the entire setup was geared for
random encounters between students and the Apache pilot / recruiter.

The ASVAB was near mandatory testing. I think a few people skipped
it but I'd say it was a handful out of a class of 600. I never quite
understood what that test was about. As smart as I'd like to
consider myself, it was hard to believe I was making 98% scores
across the board on this test with no studying. I had a sneaking
suspicion EVERYONE made 98% grin with the promise of doing just
GREAT in the armed services.

Is this a picture of:
a) an alligator clip used in electronics
b) a roach clip used to finish a doobie
c) a c-clamp
d) none of the above

(pretty close to an actual question - the diagram showed a roach
cli ... I mean, an alligator clip.)

I believe the recruiting involves
more one on one meeting with
students and less on random
encounters in the lunch room.

With the pressure the recruiters
are under I doubt they could just
sit around and wait for someone
to stop at a table and look at
literature. They have to be
more aggressive.

If fact, they are planning to make
one on one presentations to the
parents (especially mothers) who
have a big influence on whether someone joins the military or not.

I'm skeptical that that approach is
going to be welcome by the parents
or be that successful but they are
getting desperate.

"stonej" wrote in
ups.com:

I believe the recruiting involves
more one on one meeting with
students and less on random
encounters in the lunch room.
With the pressure the recruiters
are under I doubt they could just
sit around and wait for someone
to stop at a table and look at
literature. They have to be
more aggressive.

they start calling the kids at home in 10th grade. several
times per year.

If fact, they are planning to make
one on one presentations to the
parents (especially mothers) who
have a big influence on whether someone joins the military
or not.

you know, i have nothing against the military, but damn if
i'm going to let some recruiter lie to my kid.
*if* my kid were to show an interest in the military, he'd be
going for officer training, preferably in Navy or Air Force,
not become a right-out-of-high-school chunk of cannon fodder.

I'm skeptical that that approach is
going to be welcome by the parents
or be that successful but they are
getting desperate.

my SO is waiting to get a recall for Iraq even though he's
been out of the Army for 10 years & supposedly his obligations
are fulfilled... but he's a driver & they just keep killing
the ones they have over there...
lee CO