Tag: Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery
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Bringing Truth to the Youth: The Counter-Recruitment Movement, Then and Now
Emily Yates | Originally published in Truthout - July 16, 2016 "Back when we started, recruiters were just blatantly lying to the kids," said Susan Quinlan, the co-founder and volunteer coordinator of the peace and justice group, Better Alternatives for Youth–Peace (BAY-Peace). For 12 years, she's been bringing teams of youth into Oakland, California, schools to inform students about deceptive mi ...
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A Military Whitewash Campaign
Pat Elder - The National Coalition to Protect Student Privacy - A bill that would have protected the privacy of Connecticut's school children was recently defeated by the Democratically-controlled Ge ...
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Linchpin of Pentagon’s School-based Recruitment: Student Testing Program (ASVAB) Rife with Errors and Contradictions
Pat Elder - Student Privacy Compromised by Massive Program In late December, 2013 the Department of Defense released a database on the military’s controversial Student Testing Program in 11,700 high ...
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Students Complain to School Mandating Military Recruiters' Test
David Swanson - To: Sandy Husk Salem-Keizer Superintendent of Schools I would like to file a complaint about the manner in which my classmate and I were removed from what we were told was a mandatory ...
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Forced Military Testing in America's Schools
Pat Elder - The invasion of student privacy associated with military testing in U.S. high schools has been well documented by mainstream media sources, like USA Today and NPR Radio. The practice of m ...
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