Conscientious Objection and Compulsory R.O.T.C.
Richard W. Rabinowitz
The Journal of Higher Education
Vol. 22, No. 7 (Oct., 1951), pp. 359-364+399 (7 pages)

The Junior Reserve Officer Trainings Corps (JROTC) was originally developed under the National Defence Act of 1916 to increase U.S. readiness in the face of World War I. The program experienced rapid expansion in the 1990’s, which continues to this day. The courses in military science are taught in high schools by retired military personnel and are a highly successful recruiting and public relations tool for the military. If a JROTC unit or academy is starting up or already running in your community, begin raising questions. Meet with the principal, teachers’ union representatives, student groups, and school board members and challenge them to consider what tradeoffs have been made.

Youth and Militarism Program from the American Friends Servide Committee.

In April of 1995, the American Friends Service Committee published Making Soldiers in the Public Schools: Analysis of the Army JROTC Curriculum. The Army updated Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) textbooks in 1997 (December 5,1997), although those textbooks have not necessarily reached many or even most JROTC classrooms. The new text, "Leadership Education and Training 1" (LET 1), used in 9th and 10th grade classes, contains the most substantial revisions since 1989 (July 24, 1989). We compare the old and new versions of the curriculum. READ MORE

Report Summary and JROTC-Related Articles

• New JROTC Curriculum: Same Old Problems by Catherine Lutz, co-author of Making Soldiers in the Public Schools (April 2000)
  
• JROTC – Recruiting: What's the Connection? (March 2000)
  
• JROTC Expansion: Round Two (December 1999)
  
• Trading Books for Soldiers - summary of the report (September 1999)
  
• Summary of the AFSC report Making Soldiers in the Public Schools

Catherine Lutz, Professor of Anthropology at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is the author of Reading National Geographic (with J. Collins), Unnatural Emotions, and Language and the Politics of Emotion (with L. Abu-Lughod). She received a Ph.D. in social anthropology from Harvard University in 1980.

At publication time, Lesley Bartlett was a graduate student specializing in educational anthropology at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Lesley Bartlett is now an Associate Professor of Education at Columbia University in New York City. She has a B.A.,from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1991), and a Ph.D., from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (2001). and has taught in the North Carolina public school system.

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• NACE Principles for Career Service Professionals
• 1984 UCOP Letter to Chancellors
• STATEMENT OF COMPLIANCE
• 1983 UC POLICY ON NONDISCRIMINATION ON BASIS OF SEXUAL
ORIENTATION
• AALS Position on the Military’s "Don’t ask, don’t tell" Policy
• Ameliorative Measures
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