Leave No Sales Pitch Behind (New York Times Editorial)

I expect moms will soon be screaming at their congresspeople.

Bush's Orwellian double-speak No Child Left Behind Act requires schools to provide names, addresses and phone numbers of students to military recruiters or risk losing federal aid. Yeah, this is a positive message to be sending kids -- strong arm the education system to cough up contact info so we can hoodwink more poor kids to kill for us. All of this, as the article says, in a law invoked in the name of children -- God forbid.

excerpt: "military recruiters can blitz youngsters with uninvited phone calls to their homes and on-campus pitches replete with video war games."


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