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Military recruiters will be restricted during their visits to high school campuses following action taken by the San Diego Unified School District.
Recruiters will only be allowed on campus twice a year, must stay in assigned areas, and wait for students to approach them. The new measures are meant to curb what some educators call “aggressive” military recruiters.
Some students told the board they were upset over the military’s presence on their campuses.
“I do acknowledge that some students want to pursue the military as a career choice, but it is unacceptable to force feed us this information,” one unidentified student told Fox News.
Board member John deBeck stressed that the military was not being banned from campuses.
“This is not a policy about the military,” deBeck said during a school board meeting. “You guys made it about that.”
However, board member Katherine Nakamura said the decision was part of a calculated move to eventually ban military recruiters from the district.
“We have a group of people at one particular high school who have a goal of elminating military recruiting at high schools throughout the district,” she told Fox News. “The first step was to eliminate target practice for JROTC cadets.”
Nakamura said allowing one school to make a decision for the entire district is inappropriate.
“San Diego is a military town,” she said. “Not having access to students chokes off scholarship opportunities (and) cuts off another path of success for some students.”
The policy is set to take effect within the next 30 days.
Read more about the policy at the San Diego Union-Tribune.
They should be banned from schools all together. I am a veteran and can say that recruiters will lie to.
I have a better idea: use the Scool Board for target practice.
San Diego. Dream Act. Military Standards. Hmmm.
Good grief, if a kid doesn't want to talk to a military recruiter, speak up and say so. The military put my kids thru Ivy League colleges and then they got to see the world. The libs need to remember just WHO gives them the rights they enjoy. A clue? THE US MILITARY who protects us 24/7
I'm ashamed to live in a San Diego zip code. At least I live in the Poway school district. But I'm sure we're next
When the draft is reinstituted we can all thank California.
Another example of a stupid move by a failed state.
California is definitely America's "Lala land". I will hound my Congressman and Senator to withhold any funds for education from that sorry state and those pathetic queers..
Yep take away their cash and start cleaning house. The VA could use a nice new building!
freedom of speech is awesome right? lets keep it that way by allowing recruiters in the school. I dont agree with agressive recruiting because there is no need for it and it isnt right. "your move holy man"
What else should we expect from a foreign country?
Is there anybody legal in San Diego still? When I decided to leave my neighborhood the change was even to much for me. As a child we were the only Mexican family in our area for blocks and blocks . Today my old neighbor from across the street is the only white guy in the immediate area and at least half don't speak english. And four streets down my best friends mom and a family across the street from her are the only whites in their neighborhood. And now it's not safe to go out at night. I have alot of cousins left in San Deigo and their not so happy with the way other areas have changed along with the ideals. My dad is 98 yrs old and he used to deliver fruits and vegetables to the ships when he was young. My uncles both served in the Navy. San Deigo used to be proud to do their part for military. Could San Deigo survive if the Naval bases where to disappear. Our new neighbors don't mind the benefits that fall to them. They just don't want or think they need to give their fair share. We have more important things to take care of . Like how do we keep our illegal cousins here dependent on this State. What a bunch of Hypocrites.
If a High School kids wishes to join the military or learn more about opportunities in the military – he/she should visit the local recruiting station. Having salesmen (recruiters or anyone else) pushing this or anything else on school grounds is not the way it should be…
I served in the Marine Corps and although the military is a life line for some high school kids – there are other options. Those that wish to enter the military can simply visit the recruiting station…
My husband is going into his 12th year in the USMC, and he has had a fulfilling, challenging career where he has gotten experience that would have taken 20-30 in the civilian world. He's passionate about his work to an extent that is hard to verbalized.
That these loonies think restricting military recruitment is acceptable is very sad, in my opinion. Their personal problems with the military should NOT impact the kids who might choose dedication to the military as a lifestyle and/or career. Recruitment often requires a presence in school before graduation, exactly why they're targeting this time.
Schools have two options – they can allow them on campus or they can deny them access. If they deny access to the campus.
If they decide to close the campus to military recruiters, they face losing federal matching funds. For every student enrolled in a communities schools, the federal government pays them "x" number of dollars.
One high school administrator In Helena MT denied access to the campus. It was found that the school administrator had been cooking the books by reporting there were more students enrolled than were actually enrolled. Needless so say, that campus quickly opened it's doors the military recruiters.
Sorry, but you can't restrict the lawful activity of a recruiter. It's been tried and failed. Recruiters are tasked by their respective branches with performing a function essential to providing ongoing security to the United States, namely inducting new members into the armed forces. Hindering these activities is contrary to ongoing national security and hinders the armed forces and thereby the President from performing their constitutionally prescribed duties.
not only no fed funding, no military scholarships from any svc or ROTC (they banned target practice? they DO understand what the military is about, right?) to this school district. What about college night? Will all the other "recruiters" have to play by the same rules? Apply it to sport scouts too. Can't have them watch a player during a game, it might encourage winning. What a bunch of retards. Raising a whole new generation of retards. Our grandparents would weep
Dear readers and posters,
The new school policy applies to all recruiters, school, military, or other job. No one is being favored. http://warisacrime.org/content/military-recruiter…
This is a full description. The school and children should still receive funding, of course!
Unfortunately, you've all been victimized by misinformation. It was not "one school" deciding for others. The school board heard complaints from at least five different schools, including from a principal at one of them. Also, the policy did not target the military: it was written to regulate ALL recruiters, including those from for-profit colleges who have been resonsible for talking students into taking out huge loans that they then can never pay back (recent news reports have revealed that these schools have a much higher student loan default rate).
All of you cry about government intrusion into your lives. How would you like it if your children were being pumped for personal information by outside grops visiting their schools, asking them directly for their birth dates, Social Security numbers, gender, ethnicity, email addresses, and more–without parents knowing or be asked to consent? The San Diego policy was adopted in part because these violations of student privacy and parental rights were occuring regularly.
You guys should look for better new information than you're getting here.
if recruiters weren't allowed to be in high school couldn't the students that were interested just contact the recruiter themselves? I'm in the military myself and recently graduated from high school. We had tons of recruiters at my school and it tended to get out of hand. It would suck for the recruiters if they were banned from high schools, but in the long run its better for the students because that was a huge distractin in my school.