A Few Good Kids?
How the No Child Left Behind Act allowed military recruiters to collect info on millions of unsuspecting teens.
Recruiters hit pay dirt in 2002, when then-Rep. (now Sen.) David Vitter (R-La.) slipped a provision into the No Child Left Behind Act that requires high schools to give recruiters the names and contact details of all juniors and seniors. Schools that fail to comply risk losing their NCLB funding. This little-known regulation effectively transformed President George W. Bush's signature education bill into the most aggressive military recruitment tool since ... Full Story »
Posted by John Louden - via Mother Jones
More Orwellian hanky-panky from our friends in high places.