The Snake Hiding Behind "No Child Left Behind"

Bush needs more of the USA's youth to enlist in the military and he stealthily created a way to make it happen:



"If the logic of that seems a little questionable, here's another problem with 'No Child Left Behind'; military recruiters can blitz students with uninvited phone calls to their homes and on-campus pitches replete with video war games.



This is all possible under a little noted part of the law that requires schools to provide the names, addresses and phone numbers of students or risk losing federal aid. The law provides an option to block the hardsell recruitment but only if parents demand in writing that the school deny this information to the military.



More and more the drive to educate our children under 'No Child Left Behind' sounds like an excuse to indoctrinate them into the military.



'Hey kid, tired of pushing day after day to get through school? Join the military where you get paid to jump out of airplanes, shoot cool guns, blow stuff up and travel to all kinds of different countries.'



Obviously this sales pitch won't work on those students who are able to compete in the cut-throat world of 'No Child Left Behind,' but those who otherwise might find themselves left behind are the wounded wildebeests in the underbrush for the predatory tactics of a military intent on providing more cannon-fodder for the war effort.



Perhaps it was the goal all along.



No child will be left behind because those who otherwise would be are soon to be wearing the uniform of the United States military. "



It is difficult to understand why Bush thinks teenagers should be called at home to attempt to recruit them into the military and why they don't deserve the same telephone privacy from sales (which is what recruiting is) that millions of Americans receive (including their parents).



Perhaps it should be more correctly titled "No Poor Stupid Kid Allowed to Live". Sadly, you get the feeling that attitude is really what is meant.