A small group in opposition to the jrotc program attend the meeting of the San Francisco School Board which is deciding whether the JROTC program, which was just recently upheld, will be eligible for physical education credit.A small group in opposition to the jrotc program attend the meeting of the San Francisco School Board which is deciding whether the JROTC program, which was just recently upheld, will be eligible for physical education credit.American’s best and brightest . . . with too much time on their hands
I always wonder what the peaceniks think we should do in a dangerous world if attacked. We did not start the “overseas contingency operation” which shifted into high gear after Sept. 11th. Do these masked people want to go teach peace to Bin Laden?
San Fran. had disputes about JROTC also because of the whole gays in the military issue. The very very liberal people in SF wanted to make a political statement about that issue through the JROTC protests.
I pretty familiar with the JROTC program in San Francisco.
I hire most of my summer help from the program. Good kids, hard workers, more discipline and manners than your average teenager, and they want to get ahead in life.
Almost all of the kids in JROTC are Asians and Latins. Most are immigrants.
When I’ve gone to meetings to support the kids, I noticed every one of those against JROTC were white.
All of them came from “nice” neighbourhoods, not the barrios,slums and working class neighbourhoods like the JROTC kids.
I told the Board that, “This is just another racist plot to keep brown kids down and the white protestors just wanted to impose their Eurocentric views.”
LOL.
I thought I was going to be lynched but it did get a raise out of them.