Stop MILITARY RECRUITERS from getting students contact information!!!

Submitted by xochitl on

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Inform students about their right to "opt out" of their school giving their private information to MILITARY RECRUITERS!!!  Help pass out student privacy (opt out) forms to juniors and seniors at BELL HIGH SCHOOL, on Wednesday, October 26, 6:30am.  Meet at the main entrance at Bell High, 4328 Bell Ave., Bell, CA 90201
RSVP: Sandra Sunshine Williams  310-573-1901 sandrasdelmundo@gmail.com 

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MILITARY RECRUITERS ...EVIL, why?

Submitted by alhs06 on

Between my wife & I, we are the parent's of six children, the youngest @ 17 years & 7 months old, and eight grand kids, the oldest @ 13 years old & a freshman in high school. Three of the fourteen are hoping for a military career, without my wife or my influence opposing or agreeing to their decision. We have only insisted that they think it through & we will support whichever decision they make.

We have raised our children to always support our troops, while not always supporting the conflict's they were involved in. Respect for our Military has always been uncompramised, nor of the kids regards to join into a branch of service or not.

With that said, I don't really see the "Evil" associated with military recruiters as you do. But I would respect your position & opinion a little deeper than I do now, if you were to explain it. I promise to read it only & not argue or ridicule any point's that I may oppose. I'd just like to see where you are coming from, and what information or knowledge I may not be aware of.

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Military Recruiters

Submitted by xochitl on

 

Military recruiters target schools located in poor and working class communities where students don't have education and job opportunites.  They lie and deceive vulnerable youth making false promises such as money for college. Recruiters don't mention that the terms of service as stated in the enlistment contract can be changed at any time and without notice.   The majority of youth targeted by recruiters who do enlist do not end up receiving financial help for their education but they do go to war to be used as cannon fodder for the rich.  Recruiters leave out the part about how soldiers find it extremeley difficult or most often impossible to receive treatment when they come home with PTSD or brain trauma or missing arms and legs or that the suicide rate for veterans is 18 a day.  You don't find recruiters or JROTC's in Beverly Hills, but in poor brown and black barrios.  Recruiters carry out the work of this imperialist government while the targeted youth live in the poorest parts of this country. They have no place in schools where students go to receive an education and schools should not have the right to hand over  a students private information to aggressive, deceptive military recruiters!

Understood.

Submitted by Supersean on

Deceptive practices generally are unconscionable, if the target is kids its worse. Its been years since I had to register with Selective Service, but don't you have to provide your address anyway?

Lets not muddy up our work

Submitted by whydonate on

Lets not muddy up our work here by using overexagerated claims please, it just makes us look stupid... I help out at a local high school in the Inland Empire, a very affluent high school with some parents that can match the wealth of B.Hills and we have Military Recruiters here, just as all the schools in the district do, this is not a poor community and the recruiters are exceptionally polite and respected by everyone here. They have performed their duty for this great country of ours and they are not out here coercing our young men and women into service....

Lets not throw this GREAT COUNTRY under the bus with the corruption filled executives strolling the halls of the whitehouse. This is about the corruption from Obama to Wall Street and all the overpaid C-Level execs in between.

We should support our military and inform our youth, oh and one other overstatement by you is that poor working class communties don't have educational oportunities, statement like that are just fodder for opposition, please don't generalize like that, if you are then show an example of the community with no educational opportunity.

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"Lets not throw this GREAT

Submitted by Mahayana on

"Lets not throw this GREAT COUNTRY under the bus with the corruption filled executives strolling the halls of the whitehouse. This is about the corruption from Obama to Wall Street and all the overpaid C-Level execs in between."

The unfortunate thing is that the very corruption filled executives you speak of are the same ones deciding we should allow our youth to risk their lives in the name of profit- not freedom. As a mom, I would not want my child at the impressionable age of 15 or 16 to be persuaded by a Military Recruiter who feeds them a sugar coated view of life in the military. From the numerous storys I've heard, the prevailing reason young people join is the appeal of a free education. It's sad that we have to jump through such hoops just to be able to get a decent education. There should be only one reason why a person should decide to go to war, and that should be because they believe 100% that what they are fighting for is right and willing to die for that cause. I don't deny that the recruiters at your particular school are great and have nothing but the best of intentions, I just don't think that is the case for most.

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It's always tough for a

Submitted by whydonate on

It's always tough for a mother to watch her sons or daughters go off to join the military, I can't really even begin to know what that feels like, other than watching the heartache from my own mother when I joined the armed forces, but I had decided at a very young age that thats what I wanted to do, so she was expecting the worst and hoping for the best!

I never regretted one day of service (ok the D.I.'s were pretty intimidating) but it was a phase in my life that set me up for who I am now. So I hope for your sake your children decid to do whats right for them and I know that you will support them 100% right :)

Now, back to the Whitehouse, is'nt it time we got some kind of response, comment, support, from the man who promised change and has given us nothing but loose change to subsist on while his cronies keep getting richer! 

Anymore They Target Them Younger

Submitted by USARevolution12 on

The sad reality is you expected them upon graduation to be waiting with a pamphlet. Now, children are taught military strategies as young as twelve with the ROTC program. I admit that when I was younger I wanted to join West Point, but that was over 20 years ago. I would not want anyone to sign up at this point in time, because the wars are based on lies. They serve no purpose but to kill innocent civilians. I agree that sometimes war is inevitable, but I have not seen that in over 60 years.

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