In other countries children are abducted from their beds and forced to serve in a military. In our country the child recruiters don't have to go to all that trouble, they have full access to our children at school. Not only that, but the school provides the Department of Defense with the personal information on our children, unless we fill out a form to "
opt-out". Under the No Child Left Behind (a program that becomes more sinister as we learn the military implications of this program) schools are required to report to Uncle Sam certain demographic information on our kids. Is your child struggling with math, chemistry, etc.? Is your child late or absent often? Is your child from a single parent home or on reduced lunches or from a poor neighborhood? Uncle Sam wants to know if your child fits any of these markers. If so your child will become the target of aggressive recruitment. But now DoD has taken another big step in recruitment strategy. Rather than go to the schools to recruit, the schools are bringing the kids, K-5, to the military bases under the guise of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education. Here, your child will be told about all the great career opportunities available in the military (but they won't hear about the realities of war or what these machines they are being allowed to touch and experience do to the children in Iraq and Afghanistan).
