Tag: ASVAB

  • We Need to Get the US Army Out of High Schools

    We Need to Get the US Army Out of High Schools

    Jonah Walters, Jacobin - A smattering of information has been revealed about Connor Betts, the misogynist twenty-four-year-old who killed nine people and injured twenty-seven in Dayton earlier this month. One of them was that he was in the Bellbrook High School Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC) program, according to a classmate. We know little about Betts’s time in the program, the ...

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    Mission: Readiness | Starbase DOD | JROTC Shooting Ranges | ASVAB | JROTC
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  • Kids and Military Recruiters: A Compendium of Horror Stories

    Kids and Military Recruiters: A Compendium of Horror Stories

    Pat Elder | Truthout | November 1 2017 More than a hundred mothers have contacted me over the years, alarmed at the relationships their teenaged children were developing with military recruiters at s ...

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    DEP | Delayed Entry Program | APHA | ASVAB | Military recruiters | asvab test | Pat Elder
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  • Military Recruiting And How To Confront It

    Military Recruiting And How To Confront It

    Pat Elder | Originally published in Popular Resistance - June 29, 2017 Wars start in our high schools and this is where we can end them. This year the Army’s goal is to recruit 80,000 active duty and ...

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    JROTC Shooting Ranges | ASVAB | JROTC | Pat Elder | Opt Out/Student lists
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  • Bringing Truth to the Youth: The Counter-Recruitment Movement, Then and Now

    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 o ...

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    June Brumer | The National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth | Every Child Succeeds Act | Oakland Unified School District | BAY-Peace | Better Alternatives for Youth–Peace (BAY-Peace) | Susan Quinlan | Emily Yates | Chicago | Rick Jahnkow | Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery | STEM | No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 | ASVAB | Seth Kershner | JROTC | Project YANO | Hart Viges
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  • Halt the military invasion of Catholic schools

    Halt the military invasion of Catholic schools

    By Pat Elder - During the Second Battle of Fallujah in November 2004, 1st Lt. Jesse A. Grapes saved the lives of three wounded marines in his platoon by entering a burning house, where he encountered ...

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    USMEPCOM | JAMRS | Catholic schools | ASVABCEP | ASVAB | Military recruiters | Parents & Militarism | Pat Elder | Education Not Militarization
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  • Military testing in the nation's high schools is a violation of student privacy

    Military testing in the nation's high schools is a violation of student privacy

    Pat Elder - During the last year or so about half of the states have enacted legislation aimed at protecting student privacy. Meanwhile, President Obama has called for a Student Data Privacy Act, say ...

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    Military Recruitment v. Right of Privacy | Military Enlistment | FERPA | Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act | Connecticut Coalition to Protect Students Privacy | ASVAB Database | ASVAB | asvab test | Pat Elder
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  • Statewide ASVAB Option 8 Bill SB 423, Advances in Connecticut

    Statewide ASVAB Option 8 Bill SB 423, Advances in Connecticut

    Pat Elder - We’re working with the ACLU of Connecticut to pass SB 423, a bill that would protect the privacy of high school students who take the ASVAB. On March 19, 2014, SB 423 passed the Connectic ...

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    Lt. Colonel Coleman | SB 423 Bill | Connecticut | ASVAB-CEP | Connecticut Coalition to Protect Students Privacy | ASVAB | asvab test | Pat Elder
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  • Linchpin of Pentagon’s School-based Recruitment: Student Testing Program (ASVAB) Rife with Errors and Contradictions

    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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    Will Hopkins | Texas Coalition to Protect Student Privacy | Oregon Coalition to Protect Student Privacy | opt-out | Opt Out | New York Coalition to Protect Student Privacy | New Hampshire Coalition to Protect Student Privacy | Nebraska Coalition to Protect Student Privacy | Military Entrance Processing Command | Kevin Haake | Don Chapin | Diane Wood | National Coalition to Protect Student Privacy | ASVAB-CEP | Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery | Pentagon | FERPA | Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act | Connecticut Coalition to Protect Students Privacy | ASVAB Database | USMEPCOM | ASVAB | Seth Kershner | Barbara Harris | asvab test | Pat Elder
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  • The Military’s View of Counter-recruitment

    The Military’s View of Counter-recruitment

    Seth Kershner - Over the past few years, my colleague Scott Harding and I have been chronicling the counter-recruitment movement from the perspective of activists. In this article, I’ll take a differ ...

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    Paula Hoffman-Villanueva | counter-recruitment work | ASVAB | Counter-recruitment activists | Seth Kershner | Scott Harding | Military recruiters | JROTC | asvab test | Project YANO | Counter-recruitment
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  • Army Report Analyzes Decreasing Popularity of High School Military Testing

    Army Report Analyzes Decreasing Popularity of High School Military Testing

    Paula Hoffman-Villanueva - We hear a great deal about the over-use of tests in schools, but one test that we all need to pay more attention to is the ASVAB (Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery ...

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    Option 8 | NAACP | Major Gregory V. Humble | Education Not Arms Coalition | Paula Hoffman-Villanueva | American Friends Service Committee | National Lawyers Guild | ACLU | ASVAB | asvab test | Project YANO
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