NYC school’s Chancellor Joel Klein seems to like the military at lot. He has just introduced a new policy about turning the names of high school students over to military recruiters. Recruiters used to have to go to each school to get the names and contact information of students who did not sign an opt out form, which tells your high school not to give your information to recruiters. Now Chancellor Klein is making life easy for the recruiters. He has told high schools to send the names and contact info of all juniors and seniors who did not opt out to his office. He plans to give his vast master list of your names to all branches of the military. Why is Chancellor Klein doing this? Did you know about the new policy? Do you know about opting out? Do you know about Chancellor Klein new policy that helps the military? Should your high school and the Department of Education help the military recruit you? Do they help the military more than they help college and job recruiters? Let us know what you think about this policy and what you think we should do about it?
*Your school should have given you one or sent one to your parents. If you didn’t get one, download it and give it to your principal.
Archive for January, 2009
Welcome to Bkam.org
Bkam.org is a website about alternatives to the military. We know the military does not deliver on what it promises to recruits. We think there are lots of ways “you can be all you can be” without joining the military. We don’t think the U.S. should be fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Our site offers lots of information about how to apply for college, pay for college and stay in college. We have information about vocational training and internships and service programs. And if you are thinking of enlisting, we tell you things to ask; if you have signed up, we can suggest ways to get out.
But we don’t just want to give you information. We want to know what you think –about the military in your schools and neighborhoods, –about the kinds of jobs and education you want,–about what your government is doing in your name.
So we have set up this blog. We want to get you talking about what is on your mind.