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School is out.

6/30/2012

School is out and I am not carrying my protest sign each school morning.

I miss seeing the nice people that I met over the 6 months that I walked my protest beat.

Am I done?

I have a few more things to get done at this school district - so, no, I am not done.

Kids at this small rural school district still need a policy that will not allow recruiters to directly ask for a student's contact information.

That is just wrong.

Even one of the very pro-miltary moms who spoke to me this last year agreed with me on that.

Stay tuned.
:)

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FREE KITTENS

6/8/2012

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This morning a man stopped his car and rolled down the passenger side window to tell me that his son is in the military and he can go to college in the military and it is free.
I replied, "Good."
Free..
Uh, huh.
Today I just read that more Army soldiers have died this year from suicides than from being killed in the current war.
Free...
In my mind, free can come at a pretty steep price.

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A lovely morning for a protest

6/6/2012

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This morning The National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth joined me.
Boy! I did not feel alone at all with a whole group walking with me.

It was cloudy this morning - but not raining and I was able to get a quick photo of NNOMY and me on our protest beat.

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Nice to have your company!

6/6/2012

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Thank you Charlotte!
We had a nice walk. I thought it might rain and it did not.
The sign is about 5' tall and when it rains - the juggling of the umbrella and the sign can be a challenge. We totally lucked out!

Thanks Deena!
Deena grew up on military bases, and yet understands that children need to be presented choices. And that choices, when skewed like this, are not choices at all.

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Tipping the scales of sameness

6/3/2012

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Thank you Cecelia!

Kristinoel took a dive....

But she got right back up again...

This is the final count for the year, as the Art Institute who scheduled for Friday, ended up canceling.

My sign reflects the scheduled calendar visits.

So each time a recruiter is scheduled - I take time from my work to drive 7 miles back to the school to monitor/observe the visit. Then 7 miles back to work.

I drove to the school 18 times this year for scheduled military visits.

Did the military actually
show up 19 times?

No.

Did I?

I certainly tried,
cause it was on the CALENDAR...

Military recruiters actually showed up on campus 9 times this year.

The college number, is probably more like, 1 than 3, as I am pretty sure that 2 of the college recruiters did not have access to all the 9-12th grade students in the same manner that military recruiters had.

The law states that "Same Access" is allowed to military recruiters, as the school provides to colleges, etc.

Just like on Sesame Street, "One of these things is not like the other..."

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School is out.

FREE KITTENS

A lovely morning for a protest

Nice to have your company!

Tipping the scales of sameness

Thank you Cecelia!

Kristinoel took a dive....

But she got right back up again...

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