Military Recruiting in High Schools : From School Space to Marketplace / by Brian W. Lagotte.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lagotte, Brian W., Author.

Series:

Education Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education.

Local Subjects:

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (X, 146 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2016.

Place of Publication:

Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers, 2016.

Summary:

This book focuses exclusively on specific education policy instead of general military recruiting in high schools. "When the George W. Bush administration passed its landmark education legislation in 2001, dubbed the No Child Left Behind Act, legislators included a small section containing strict military recruiting mandates for public high schools. The law had two main provisions. First, a data sharing provision requires high schools to distribute the personal directory information of every student to all local armed forces recruiting stations on an annual basis. Second, the equal access provision requires high schools to provide military recruiters access to school grounds equal to university recruiters or career recruiters. For accountability, if these provisions are not fulfilled, the school will lose all federal education funds. Students or parents may “opt out” of the data collection through a bureaucratic process, but no such opt-out option exists for the soldiers visiting schools. When President Barack Obama renewed the omnibus education law in 2015, the name changed to the Every Student Succeeds Act, but the military mandates remained – the provisions were strengthened by including a passage prohibiting any local school board from instituting an “opt-in” bureaucratic structure for parents and students. This book focuses on how the two provisions have been met by parents, school staff, soldiers, and other individuals influenced by high school education policy and military recruiting. The central question is: do military recruiting methods utilized in public high schools work to promote the best interests of the students, or should policy makers rethink the freedom adult soldiers have when interacting with children within schools?

Contents:

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

My Place and Purpose

The Throughline

Policy Context

Recruiter Access

Student Data Protection

NCLB Section 9528

Interpreting Policy Requirements

Competing Solutions

ESSA Section 8025

The Pitch

Penetrating the School Market

Opt-Out, JAMRS, Student Data

Conclusion

Parents

Influencers as Obstacles

Pitching the Parents

Evading the Influencers

School Administrators

The Data Sharing Provision

Equal Access Provision

Career Killer

The Blueprint

Shady Six

Different Perspective

Promotion Stress

Drug Counseling

Recommendations

Normative Harms

Appendix 1: Notes on Method and Data

Appendix 2: Notes on Theory

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9789463005180

9463005188

OCLC:

953458636