No Child Left Behind-Little Known Provision Signed By Bush-Gives Military Access To Student Info

[kpete]

Documentary: Law gives military access to student data
By David Goldstein | McClatchy Newspapers
Posted on Tue, June 19, 2007

WASHINGTON — It began as a class assignment for Alexia Welch and Sarah Ybarra: Make a five-minute video news story about advertising in public schools.

But the Lawrence, Kan., teenagers' project snowballed into a 25-minute documentary on how the federal No Child Left Behind law to improve education promotes military recruitment, infringes on students' privacy and encourages school officials to look the other way.

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They discovered that a little-known provision of No Child Left Behind, which President Bush signed in 2002, requires schools to give the military personal information about their students. Otherwise, the schools' federal aid could be at risk.

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Welch and Ybarra found that their high school published all that information and more — age, gender, date of birth and parents' work phone numbers — in the high school directory, which anyone can buy for $2.

more at:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/17141.html

[LWolf]

1. This has been known from the beginning.

It's not news. There have been plenty of people pointing out this, and the myriad other flaws contained in the piece of shit NCLB. A few people have been willing to bitch about it, but...

Who has actually pressured their congresspeople to repeal NCLB, besides me?

It's up for renewal this year. Who is ready to take it out, rather than engage in circular arguments about funding it?

Having had to work under NCLB all this time, I'm angry that so few want to seriously take it on. There are so many other "more important" issues to spend time, attention, and energy on than the one that dictates the education of future voters. I feel disenfranchised.

[NashVegas]

2. Vermont Raised a Huge Stink About This

Several years ago.

Here's a Mother Jones article.


http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2002/11/ma_153_01.html?welcome=true

Good to see MSM finally catch up with this story.

[TechBear_Seattle]

3. It is not "little known"

At least, not around here. This provision has made headlines in DU at least once a month from the very beginning. :hi:

[Solly Mack]

4. Fuck. Who is just now getting to the monster ball?

Welcome to our national night terror.

[Nikki Stone1]

5. It's great that the kids found it themselves.

Maybe, as affected parties, they will be able to get some attention.