This was posted to an internet mailing list:

You may not know it, but under a little known provision of No Child Left Behind, public high schools must hand over personal information about students -- including minors -- to local military recruiters, or risk losing federal education funding. I think it's a real invasion of family privacy and local school control.

The good news is that I just found some great information and a useful online tool that makes it easy to "opt out" our children from these lists. Just go to http://www.leavemychildalone.org/friend . Apparently the huge desertion problem is, as many real problems, not being publicized in this country...

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