Download and read the report that describes with certainty how military recruiters are going into public schools and breaking the Optional Protocol law that is intended to protect children under 18 from pressure to commit themselves to the military. Posted with permission from the ACLU.
No Military in our Schools!
| Join with parents, teachers, students, and anti-war activists who demand that schools are for teaching about life skills, not military careers. Together we must demand that the San Francisco School Board end Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) as they originally voted to do in 2006, but then, last year, caved in to Pentagon pressure and voted to extend JROTC for another year—reversing their original, well-thought-out decision. In 2006, San Franciscans voted overwhelmingly to get the military out of our schools; the school board then passed a strong resolution to eliminate JROTC, which states in part: "The SFUSD (San Francisco Unified School District) has restricted the activities of military recruiters on our campuses...JROTC is a program wholly created and administrated by the United States Department of Defense, whose documents and memoranda clearly identify JROTC as an important recruiting arm; and...JROTC manifests the military's discrimination against LGBT people..." It is legally and morally repugnant for the school district to continue to facilitate the military’s access to our students and allow them to become fixtures in our schools! As this illegal war in Iraq enters its 6th year, and a war with Iran looms ahead, JROTC must go NOW! |