Monday, October 10, 2005

No child left behind, though some may die in Iraq, and others may become invisible

Thanks to Louisiana Senator David Vitter, the No Child Left Behind Act contains a clause which requires schools to give military recruiters the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of high school students. As most people have heard by now, parents may opt their adolescents out of this process. However, No Child Left Behind also provides that schools that do not hand over the information are subject to losing federal funding.

(Continue reading at MoJo Blog)

1 Comments:

I blogged about this when I was first alerted to it, but I didn't know about the threat of federal funding being cut, which makes it doubly disgusting. I merely ranted about the military recruiting part.

It just gets scarier all the time. Sheeesh.

By Blogger Unknown, at 9:27 PM  

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