Pentagon reaching in to Tucson schools
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TUCSON -- The local Sunday paper today reported more high school kids than ever are signing up for military programs in their schools. Good reporting by C.A. Alaimo, but the Star's headline may be off.
I'm not so sure these kids 'trust' the military, but they do need jobs and money for college, and the military pumps up these programs and aims them at students. There also is some truth that the current generation of high schoolers leans more conservative, and they are easily influenced and swayed -- especially by guns and trucks.
Many kids see no good economic opportunities around them in Tucson. They know at least the military provides pay and benefits, even if you have to kill or be killed.
The real question may be why is the military allowed in to our schools? If students want to seek them out, they should, but I'm not sure military programs and recruiting should be prominent in our schools.
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When I was in high school in the 80's the recruiters had the same information at hand and used the same zeal for going after new recruits. You can not isolate and use this as another excuse to blame Bush. Recruiters have used these methods from the days of Kennedy up and to present days.
Take your I hate Bush party hat off for a minute and be objective.
Completely disagree with you jen...The recruiters got my name, phone number and address from the school, they also got my friends names etc. So it *has* happened before and has been the status quo for years.
Did you ever participate in a career day at the school? Was the military not present then? Did the military ever sponsor an asvab test at your school? If not, then yours was the exception and not the rule.
Referring to "anonymous":
"In the 80s we weren't invading sovereign nations, however. "
Umm...remember Grenada? Remember Iran? Remember Libya?
Tell you what, rather than fill this blog with a discussion, why not take it to a public forum? How about http://www.bisbeemarquee.com post in the world at large and lets have this discourse...the both of you ;)