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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 |
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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.) |
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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. |
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"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 |
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