Poor Families Not Allowed on the "Do Not Call" List? Bush Gives Poor Children's Telephone Numbers To Military Recruiters
After all the trouble that people have gone through to avoid being harassed at home by unwanted telephone calls, a national "Do Not Call" list was established. But guess how George W. Bush got around that? By slipping into his "No Child Left Behind" law a provision allowing the private family telephone numbers of CHILDREN who don't pass tests (the ones being left behind) to be culled from their school records by military recruiters. These military recruiters then hound these kids to join the military. Of course these are NOT the children of economically well-off families so the USA continues its tradition of shoving its poorest into the military, but now is even more aggressive. With Bush's No Child Left Behind Law, these children who have been left behind by conservative political policies all their lives so that their future are dim by high school, are then swept into the military after being persuaded that there really is no other viable option for them.
This aggressive violation of privacy authorized by Bush is also taking its toll on recruiters. who spend several hours a day cold-calling high school students, whose phone numbers are provided by schools under the No Child Left Behind Law.
So who is organizing parents at schools across the country to demand that their children's school records NOT be accessible to the federal government or military recruiters, that their telephone numbers not be culled from their children's school records and that their underage children NOT be telehoned by military recruiters preying on their children (whose lives have been adversely affected by conservative political and fiscal policies), hoping to persuade them to join the military????
2 comments:
Actually, all "children" going to public high schools have thier names (and most times address and phone numbers as well) provided to the recruiting services. Not only poor children.
Also, your logic that those failing the ASVAB are "culled" into the military is faulty. By definition, they failed the test and therefore are unqualifed for enlistment.
This leaves these precious underachievers safely at home.
Obviously the post does not say only certain children have their names given to the military. You knew that when you posted.
Logically, the poor children (who tend to also more strongly populate the list of children not doing well in school) are the ones with few options and so the military goes after them.
The practice of giving out people private names and telephne numbers to the military is reprehensible.
Oh, and yes they are children, not imitations of children as implied by your placement of the word children in quotes.
And its fine if you post, *smiles* but refrain from telling me that I am illogical, insane etc. for my viewpoints. That is uncivil, designed to shut down any discourse and not welcome.
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