Public Schools

Are you working all by yourself or with just a few others in a school district that is pro?military?

Are you having trouble gaining access to the schools? Is regional/political insensitivity a problem within our movement? Don’t trust the school board route? Feel like giving up? Spark your creative juices! Discuss grassroots organizing to develop the power of your counter recruitment efforts and impact your community. Take depth of your effectiveness and successes. Share your stories and materials.

The Adopt a Schools Model of CAMS fosters the relationships, and grassroots empowerment that sustains counter recruitment and student activism in high schools. Learn from one of the most successful Adopt a Schools Project, the SOCIAL JUSTICE ACADEMY at Garfield HS, an inner city school in East Los Angeles. Find out how this academy was established and how counter recruitment is infused into the school program while holding LAUSD accountable to district policies.

The Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, ASVAB, administered to more than 600,000 students in 11,000 high schools across the country, is a powerful recruiting device for the U.S. military. This workshop will provide an overview of this testing regime, how the military uses it to lure recruits, and various administrative and legislative approaches to challenge its proliferation.
Presenter: Pat Elder

 

Workshop: ASVAB Documents

Workshop Documents Include:

Nick Haggerty -

 

Military to Expand Role in Running Public High Schools

Rise of Military Schools

Paula Hoffman-Villanueva -

Todd Finley -