Back to School: Military Recruiters Increasingly Targeting High School Teens

Democracy Now by Juan Gonzalez | Sep. 4, 2009 (Special Report)

(Video) As millions of students prepare for the start of another school year, we focus on an issue that concerns many parents: the increasing presence of military recruiters in the nation’s high schools and the military’s ability to gather information about students. Full Story »

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by Dwight Rousu - Sep. 9, 2009

The aspect of privacy invasion to support a military state raises questions about human rights for youth, and the function of schools with regard to the military.

Seducing youth into the war machine needs to be limited.

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Mother Jones by David Goodman | Aug. 31, 2009 (Investigative Report)

Recruiters hit pay dirt in 2002, when then-Rep. (now Sen.) David Vitter (R-La.) slipped a provision into the No Child Left Behind Act that requires high schools to give ...

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