Articles
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Why Is My Kindergartner Being Groomed for the Military at School?
Sarah Grey, Truthout | Report When he got home from Iraq, Hart Viges began sorting through his boyhood toys, looking for some he could pass on to his new baby nephew. He found a stash of G.I. Joes - ...
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SkoolLive - School Jive - A new, interactive digital invasion of our high schools by corporations and the military
Pat Elder - For years DOD recruiting commanders have attempted to circumvent student privacy protections that are designed to shield minors from the wholesale transfer of student information from ...
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Debate: Military recruiting in public schools
Should the military be allowed to recruit in public schoolsWith the USA and its allies involved in 2 major conflicts in recent years, military recruitment has become an important issue. But some ...
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Do Military Recruiters Belong in Schools?
By Seth Kershner & Scott Harding - The United States stands alone among Western nations in allowing military recruiters to work inside its educational system. Section 9528 of the 2001 No Child Left ...
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America’s Tween Soldiers
Seth Kershner - Last year, Henry F. Moss Middle School in Bowling Green, Ohio, offered students a brand new course. And, as a headline in the local newspaper proclaimed, this was “not your ...
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Counter-Recruitment and the Campaign to Demilitarize Public Schools
Scott Harding, Seth Kershner - ISBN 9781137515254 Publication Date September 2015 Formats Hardcover Ebook (EPUB) Ebook (PDF) Publisher Palgrave Macmillan "This book brilliantly dissects not only the ...
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SPECIAL REPORT U.S. MILITARY AND CIVILIANS ARE INCREASINGLY DIVIDED
Jovano Graves' parents begged him not to join the Army right out of high school in 2003, when U.S. troops were fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. But their son refused his parents' pleas to try ...
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Changing Recruitment Policies in Schools: One Phone Call and Email at a Time
Kate Connell - In the spring of 2014, I went to observe a career day at Santa Barbara High School, where my son is enrolled. There were a variety of organizations with representatives and literature ...
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Hansel and Gretel at the Military Recruiter
John LaForge - Military recruiters must feel like Hansel and Gretel’s “wicked witch,” fattening up the children to eat them. With sexual violence, endless wars of occupation, fatalities, brain ...
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Football, the military and one Florida high school student’s difficult choice
Kent Babb - MONTICELLO, Fla. — The binder sat open on his adoptive mother’s lap, turned to the page where the scholarship papers lay in a transparent sleeve. Nik Branham said nothing, holding the ...