No Child Left Behind Act Invades Family Privacy
Buried deep within Bush's highly touted No Child Left Behind Act is a provision that requires public high schools to hand over private student information to military recruiters. This provision allows minor students to be recruited at home by telephone calls, mail and personal visits. If a school does not comply, it risks losing vital federal education funds. This provision, known as section 9528, was inserted with almost no debate into the No Child Left Behind Act by newly-elected Rep. David Vitter of Louisiana, who learned from the Pentagon that many public schools had strict privacy policies protecting student information from being released to any outside parties, thus preventing aggressive military recruiting. Under Section 9528, the only way to keep children's contact information from military recruiters, is for parents to submit an "opt-out" letter in writing to the school district's superintendent.
2006-08-31
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