Under the No Child Left Behind Act, if you attend a public high school, your school system is required to turn over YOUR private information to the US military unless you OPT OUT!
I heard this discussed a long time ago. As the mother of two young men I find this form of "negative option" information sharing to be morally repugnant, like cable companies' negative option billing policies that were struck down here in Canada. The courts ruled that the companies' policy of billing customers for services they hadn't signed up for, unless they opted out, was illegal and reprehensible. The American military is treating young men's lives as cavalierly as Rogers or Cogeco treated the Wrestling/True Crime/ Celebrity Channel package. Military recruiters are taking advantage of the No Child Left Behind Act by aggressively targeting schools where the majority of students are low income or people of color. Many young people have, and will continue to end up on the front line of war just months after graduating high school.
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