Congress has passed an education bill called “No Child Left Behind” that affects schools, and their access to federal funding, in a lot of different ways. One of the things this law does is force school districts to give the names of and contact information for juniors and seniors in high school to military recruiters if the recruiters ask for it. Many students and parents have started to complain about harassing phone calls from recruiters, floods of slick recruitment brochures sent by mail, and recruiters who show up uninvited at students’ homes.
According to the government, the only way you can get out of this is by having your parents or guardian sign a certain form saying they “opt out” of having their child’s information given to recruiters. But some people are working to replace “opt out” with an “opt-in” form, so that school officials will only give military recruiters access to those students whose parents have given written permission for this to happen.
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