Articles
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Poverty, Militarism and the Public Schools
Robert C. Koehler | Originally published in CommonDreams - What’s the difference between education and obedience? If you see very little, you probably have no problem with the militarization of the ...
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Thanks for Your Service, but Don't Tell the Kids About It (We Need Them to Enlist)
Emily Yates | Originally published in Truthout - "Excuse me, are you saying negative things about the military?" The question came over my right shoulder, from a well-dressed woman whose nametag ...
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These Grannies Are Helping to Plug the School-to-Military Pipeline at Its Source
Joyce Chu - When teachers are underpaid and schools are underserved, why do we pay veterans to encourage young students to join the military? On a Wednesday afternoon last month, a group of ...
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This Ex–Army Ranger Goes on Missions to High Schools—but Not to Recruit
Rory Fanning - For a decade, Afghanistan vet Rory Fanning has been battling the desire to inflict pain on himself. Instead, he visits schools. Early each New Year’s Day I head for Lake Michigan with ...
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Draft Registration and the Selective Service System
Draft registration is one of the ways that all young men (and possibly soon young women as well) have to interact with the military and think about their relationship to military “service”. Almost ...
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Education Action: Reining in Military Recruiting
Seth Kershner - In 2012, Kate Connell—a photographer with two children in the Santa Barbara public schools—learned that her son’s freshman seminar had a Marine recruiter as a guest speaker. Her son ...
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How to Counter Recruitment and De-Militarize Schools
David Swanson - U.S. military recruiters are teaching in public school classrooms, making presentations at school career days, coordinating with JROTC units in high schools and middle schools, ...
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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 ...