No Child Left Unrecruited

Subject: No Child Left Unrecruited Tue Sep 01, 2009 10:35 pm

How the No Child Left Behind Act allowed military recruiters to collect info on millions of unsuspecting teens.

The military is using a host of behind-the-scenes methods—including the No Child Left Behind Act—to gather information on high school students for recruitment, writes David Goodman in Mother Jones. A little-known provision in NCLB, for instance, requires schools that get funding to supply recruiters with info on all juniors and seniors. It "effectively transformed President George W. Bush's signature education bill into the most aggressive military recruitment tool since the draft."

And though students can opt out—with some difficulty—even more obscure data-mining operations are afoot to help the Pentagon amass “arguably the largest repository of 16- to 25-year-old youth data in the country.” It somewhat covertly maintains a website of test-taking tips that sends information to recruiters and administers an aptitude test in high schools toward the same end. To pull the info together—and get advice on cold-calling teens—the Pentagon employs the same research and marketing firm as Starbucks.

To get to lunch in my high school, you had to pass recruiters. It was overwhelming. I thought the recruiters had too much information about me. They called me, but I never gave them my phone number. - John Travers, college junior

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/09/few-good-kids

No Child Left Unrecruited

No Child Left Unrecruited

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