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Get your ducks in a row.

5/10/2012

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There is a school board meeting tonight and I have been informed that it is OK if I present the last 3 remaining items that I would like the school board to address:

  1. Set a policy to limit all recruiters from any individual organization to 2 on- campus visits per year.  This would allow the Navy 2 visits, the Marines 2 visits, Harvard 2 visits, Intel 2 visits, etc.
  2. Create a policy that prohibits on-campus recruiters from soliciting contact information from students.  
  3. Amend the current opt-out form that parents sign to restrict the school district from giving out student's personal contact information to include ALL students in the secondary school, not just the 11th and 12th graders.

I do not consider any of these to be any more than plain and simple common sense changes in the best interest of the children who attend school in this small rural school district.

The No Child Left Behind Act specifically states that the military recruiters are allowed the same access to students as other post-secondary educational opportunities.   
That would be colleges and employers.     By setting a limit for each type of recruiter, it allows equal access, which is to the letter of the law.

This same law allows the military recruiters to ask for contact information for children in secondary schools. 

 By law they have this right.  

 The law also states that a parent can sign an opt-out form and the school is then - by law- NOT required to give out this personal information. 

At this district, the secondary school is grades 7-12.   The current opt out form does not protect the parental rights of the students in grade 7-10.    

It is all in the details.    

Times can change. 

 Kids grow and move on. 
  
Administrations at school districts change.  

 World politics change.

Wars come and go.

With good policies in place,
 children are protected.

And, isn't that what it is supposed to be all about?
Children.

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