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Military Recruiters Don't Belong in High Schools

• https://original.antiwar.com by Sidney Miralao

Schools have become contested territory.

For years, getting police officers out of schools has been a central goal of racial justice campaigns. Recently, they've won victories in DenverMinneapolisPortlandCharlottesville, and even on many university campuses.

However, there's another group of outsiders in schools we should be wary of: the U.S. military.

Since the end of the draft in 1973, the US has relied on an all-volunteer service to maintain its 1.3 million-member global police force. Over the years the military has used a number of different recruitment methods, but the target audience has always been the same: high schoolers.

The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 significantly changed how military recruiters reach teenagers. Section 9528 mandates public high schools give military recruiters the same access to students that college recruiters get, including their personal contact information. Schools became gold mines for recruiting "future soldiers."


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