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Posted on 08/02/2007 9:15:38 AM PDT by Sopater
The Seattle School Board unanimously approved new restrictions on military recruiters visiting high school campuses, though the changes didn't go far enough for student protesters.
The Wednesday night vote capped a months-long debate, complete with protests by a group of students and community members.
Students had lobbied board members, and occasionally disrupted several Seattle School Board meetings, held rallies and met with members one-on-one in to press their case.
Students in the group Youth Against War and Racism even developed their own proposal, which would ban all recruiting in schools in lieu of an annual, districtwide recruiting fair.
Despite their efforts, the policy changes the board approved will limit -- but not ban -- military recruiting in Seattle public high schools.
Under the new rules, colleges, employers and branches of the military would each be allowed two visits per school, per year. The district would compile an annual report on the number of students who opted out of providing information to the military and maintain a Web site that would offer information on school recruitment policies and opt-out forms.
"Maybe it's not what we all want," board member Mary Bass said. "But it is a step in the right direction."
(Excerpt) Read more at seattlepi.nwsource.com ...
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O.K. then, the government should limit federal funding to that school district in turn.
Huh? The military is the least racist institution in America. People of all races have worked their way to the top on their own merits. But maybe that's their problem -- the left wants minorities to rise to the top with government handouts and quotas, and not on their own merits.
High school is allegedly supposed to encourage students to graduate from college. The military provides scholarship money, greatly easing student debt burden of graduates. And the school board wants to drive them off campus.
How can this make sense to anyone?
Enemies of the state.
We SO need to defeat these socialist morons!
I would think that by the time these kids graduated from high school, they would know where and how to get to a recruiter’s office, if they wanted to.
It’s been my contention that the US Army is recruiting in the wrong places. For example, there are vast amounts of kids learning the military skills of shoot, move, and communicate in paintball fields all over the US. If USAREC (also known as USAWRECK) was smart, they’d sponsor local competitions and scenarios.
Ah Seattle. ...Home of the “American Chicken”.
You’re now on the Washingto0n Sttae ping list, KentTrapped.
And I have to learn to type.
You were close w/ Washingto0n. If you just changed it to Washingtoon...
Fine. Washington schools should be denied any Federal funding too.
Inmates running the asylum
Seattle is a liberal shiite-hole,just barely better than San Fransciso, but deserving of the fate.
I'll bet these charming little snots would have no problems with homosexuals recruiting on campus at any time.
defeat, deport, destroy... set up re-education camps in the mojave desert with heavy use of waterboarding until they toe the conservative line, or at least the traditionalist line, vs. secular progressivism.
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