No Child Left Behind - the military connection

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(1) ACCESS TO STUDENT RECRUITING INFORMATION- Notwithstanding section 444(a)(5)(B) of the General Education Provisions Act and except as provided in paragraph (2), each local educational agency receiving assistance under this Act shall provide, on a request made by military recruiters or an institution of higher education, access to secondary school students names, addresses, and telephone listings.

(2) CONSENT- A secondary school student or the parent of the student may request that the student's name, address, and telephone listing described in paragraph (1) not be released without prior written parental consent, and the local educational agency or private school shall notify parents of the option to make a request and shall comply with any request.

(3) SAME ACCESS TO STUDENTS- Each local educational agency receiving assistance under this 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.
http://www.ed.gov/policy/elsec/leg/esea02/pg112.html

Of course a parent would have to know about this before requesting that their private information be protected. To me this wreaks of sleeze. The default should be to protect privacy; especially when it comes to children.
 

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I wouldn't worry too much. This isn't nearly as damaging as some of the other scatology being legislated this week.

For instance, you probably didn't even notice the passage of H.R. 2679:
With little public attention or even notice, the House of Representatives has passed a bill that undermines enforcement of the First Amendment's separation of church and state...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/29/AR2006092901055.html
 
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The military has been making their recruting quotas lately by offering large sign up bonuses for anyone who enlists in a combat MOS. The military gets enough 18 year old kids who can't resist the thought of enough money to buy a new car, to keep the cannon fodder bin full.:frown:

The requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act is still a primary source for finding young people though.

Most of the legislation passed by the Bush administration has had a lot of fine print.