JROTC
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In conversation with Microsoft Copilot Ai: Considering involuntary JROTC Placements into US High Schools in 2024
June 5, 2024 / NNOMY office & Microsoft Copilot Ai - The following article is a Q & A conversation between the National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth office and the Microsoft Copilot artificial intelligence program asking questions about the expanding practice`of involuntary placement of marginalized community youth into Junior Reserve Officer Training corps programs in their high ...
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America’s Child Soldiers JROTC and the Militarizing of America
08/09/2021 / Ann Jones / Tom Dispatch - Congress surely meant to do the right thing when, in the fall of 2008, it passed the Child Soldiers Prevention Act (CSPA). The law was designed to protect ...
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The NDAA for 2021 expands the programs of the Pentagon in our public schools
Gary Ghirardi / NNOMY - A not surprising but concerning feature of the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act is the doubling of the Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps in our public schools and ...
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Dismantling the School-to-Soldier Pipeline
AN INTERVIEW WITH Nancy Cruz, Barbara Harris, Rick Jahnkow, and Seth Kershner | Originally Published in Jacobin Magazine on October 18, 2019 SK The National Defense Act of 1916 created the Reserve ...
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Video: Should JROTC be in schools?
The hat's a bit wonky-looking, but I hope you enjoy the video Time Codes: + Introduction - 0:21 + What is JROTC and why should you care? - 1:22 + What are some underlying sociocultural forces that ...
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JROTC as a substitute for PE: really?
Monica A. F. Lounsbery, Kathryn A. Holt, Shannon A. Monnat, Thomas L. McKenzie, and Brian Funk - Physical inactivity is receiving growing attention given its documented relationship to a variety of ...
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JROTC
WHAT IS IT? The Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC) is a military program offered at approximately 3400 high schools around the country.1 Its proponents consider it a “character ...