No Child Left Behind?
Per paragraph 3, ‘each local education agency receiving assistance under the No Child Left Behind Act shall provide military recruiters the same access to secondary school students as is provided generally to post-secondary educational institutions or to prospective employers of those students.’
This bothers me.
Every year, since my children started 6th grade, I’ve written a note to the school to ask them NOT to provide my children’s information to military recruiters. Why do military recruiters need access to my children when they start middle school, eg., when they are 12?
Wait... What? 
Because it seems like harmful, then, so they figure you’ll give permission/not deny it.
There’s another issue here, connected with this blog being about development– often, the development community is too silent about the way militarism defunds human needs and development. Even Dwight Eisenhower could say:
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
This world in arms is not spending money alone.
It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities.”
http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/speeches/ike_chance_for_peace.html
Stranger still, he said this in spring 1953, when McCarthyism was at its height, before he was brought down.
Jim thanks as always for your good insights and thoughts and historical perspective on things! Really good points. Linda