Tag: JROTC
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Sexual Abuse of Teens in the Military’s J.R.O.T.C. Program
July 9, 2022 / Mike Baker, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, Ilana Marcus, Mary F. Calvert / nytimes.com - PICAYUNE, Miss. — With the rifle skills she honed in the Mississippi backwoods, Victoria Bauer had ...
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Military Recruiters Should Have No Place in Our Schools
Federal legislation enforces the militarization of schools, giving recruiters easy access to teenagers vulnerable to persuasion. An outlier among other nations for this method of recruitment, the ...
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America’s Child Soldiers JROTC and the Militarizing of America
08/09/2021 / Ann Jones / Tom Dispatch - Congress surely meant to do the right thing when, in the fall of 2008, it passed the Child Soldiers Prevention Act (CSPA). The law was designed to protect ...
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Recruitment, counter-recruitment and critical military studies
Introduction December 2016 / Matthew F. Rech / School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University - On 8 January 2002 in the US, George Bush Jr. signed into law an educational federal ...
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The House That War Built
Death toll is in the millions Opinion / 2/21/2022 / Gary Ghirardi - Under the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), public high ...
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The NDAA for 2021 expands the programs of the Pentagon in our public schools
Gary Ghirardi / NNOMY - A not surprising but concerning feature of the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act is the doubling of the Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps in our public schools and ...
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Military Recruiters Don’t Belong in High Schools
Schools have become contested territory. For years, getting police officers out of schools has been a central goal of racial justice campaigns. Recently, they’ve won victories in Denver, ...
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Dismantling the School-to-Soldier Pipeline
AN INTERVIEW WITH Nancy Cruz, Barbara Harris, Rick Jahnkow, and Seth Kershner | Originally Published in Jacobin Magazine on October 18, 2019 SK The National Defense Act of 1916 created the Reserve ...
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ALERT: POTENTIAL EXPANSION OF HIGH SCHOOL MILITARISM
Rick Jahnkow / Demilitarize Our Schools - Legislation has recently been suggested that, among other things, would greatly expand the number of JROTC units and make military recruiting a more ...
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U.S. Army Tries New Recruiting Tactics After Missing Targets
Largest branch of military struggles in a strong economy; a pilot program in Chicago Ben Kesling, Wall Street Journal - CHICAGO —The U.S. Army is experimenting with new recruiting tactics as it ...