The Choice Channel

“The British navy used to use trapdoors in barrooms to capture recruits to maintain its colonial empire. The U.S. military doesn’t need these tricks. It has No Child Left Behind. Section 9528, the 300 or so words buried within the act’s 670 pages, cement militarism in public schools. This section’s provisions funnel private student data such as telephone numbers and home addresses into the Pentagon for military recruitment purposes and also mandate access for military recruiters to students in public secondary schools. As the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have dragged on, recruiters have become increasingly aggressive on campus.” (06/07)