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Campus Organizing
Against Militarism

Access

Are Your Students Getting a Balanced Education About the Military? A Military Recruiter's Job is to Sell the Military

Options for Controlling Military Recruiter's Access to Secondary Schools & Students

Legal Basis for Equal Access

Ninth CIRCUIT COURT RULING: CONFRONTING MILITARISM BY USING EQUAL ACCESS TO HIGH SCHOOLS

Ninth Circuit Court Ruling: San Diego Committee Against Registration and the Draft (CARD) v. the Governing Board of the Grossmont Union High School District
June 6, 1986

Atlanta Federal Appellate Case Guarantees Equal Access to Schools for Military Critics
April 1987


Campus Organizing Strategies

Community Opposition Sends Marine JROTC Unit Into Retreat
by John Amidon

High School Students' Rights: What Every Student Should Know
(a four-page pamphlet)

Has Your School Given Your Private Information to the Military?
(a one-page outreach flyer for No Child Left Behind organizing)

The Military Out of Our Schools - Strategies for Action
(a one-page hand-out)

It's Time to Teach Peace and Make Our High Schools Military-Free Zones
(a three-page overview of issues that relate to the military on campus)

War. A possible draft. Military programs and recruiters in our schools. What YOU can do
(a two-page hand-out with suggestions for students, parents and the community)


Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB)

What Students and Educators Should Know About Military Testing in Our High Schools - Questions about the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB)

ASVAB: Wolf in Sheep's Clothing?


Junior Reserve Officers Training Corp (JROTC)

Recruiting the Class of 2005
By David Goodman
Military programs have expanded into thousands of public high schools, signing up nearly half a million students. Is Junior ROTC building character -- or lining up soldiers?

Making Soldiers in the Public Schools: An Analysis of the Army JROTC Curriculum (37- pages from AFSC National Youth and Militarism Program, April 1995)

New Army JROTC Curriculum - Old Problems (4-page analysis of new JROTC curriculum published 1998)

Trading Books for Soldiers: The True Cost of JROTC (2-pages, from AFSC National Youth and Militarism Program)

JROTC: Sending the Wrong Message About Weapons and Violence (2-pages from COMD)

Is JROTC a wise use of class time? (3-pages from AFSC National Youth and Militarism Program)

From the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors (CCCO)

Why Question the Military’s JROTC Program?

Pentagon Decisions Override Local School Boards: Jr. ROTC Forces Districts To Abandon Local Control Of Curriculum and Staff (1-page)

JROTC Doesn’t Deliver (4-pages)

JROTC Is a Recruiting Program for Dead–End Military Jobs (1-page)

JROTC Discriminates (1-page)

JROTC Textbooks Are Biased and Bigoted (1-page)

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No Child Left Behind

Background Articles

Military Recruitment in U.S. High Schools Under the No Child Left Behind Act
(a 1-page fact sheet)

Text of Section 9528 of the No Child Left Behind Act
Regarding Military Recruitment

Military Recruiting Law Puts Burden on Parents
By Elaine Rivera
Originally Published in the Washington Post Sunday, November 24, 2002; Page C01

No Child Unrecruited: Should the military be given the names of every high school student in America?
By David Goodman (Originally published in the November/December 2002 Issue of Mother Jones.)

UNCLE SAM WANTS... Your Child's Name, Phone Number, and Address
The passage of recent “school reform” legislation intended to improve upon the nation’s school systems also allows the military access to private student information.

if only military recruiters had a Do-Not-Call list. or Why you might want to be wary of those recruiting calls and the legislation that makes them possible.
from the Student Peace Action Network

Military Recruiters Getting a Foot in Door: Federal Education Bill Requires High Schools to Share Student Data
by Susan Milligan
Published on Thursday, November 21, 2002 by the Boston Globe

Student Organizing

Sample Student Petition

Sample Student Letter to take name off list

High School Students Rights: What Every Student Should Know

Parent Organizing

Sample Parent Petition

Sample Parent Letter to take son/daughter's name off list