CALL TO ACTION!!!!!



The National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth (NNOMY) is asking for your participation in its National Opt-Out Week, September 20-24. NNOMY's Opt-Out Week calls greater attention to the military recruitment provisions of the controversial No Child Left Behind Act, which requires school districts to share students' names, addresses, and telephone numbers with military recruiters. The schools are required to inform parents and students that their information can be withheld from the recruiters if that is what they desire. However, not all schools are following the spirit of the law and properly informing students and their parents of the right to protect their privacy.



Here is where YOU come in! Call your local schools! Find out when the Opt-Out deadline is, ask if they have informed their students of their options, ask if they have an Opt-Out form, give them an Opt-Out form, go to schools and hand out Opt-Out forms, pass out information about the realities of military service, hold a press conference with students, parents, teachers, allies, etc., hold teach-ins/town hall community forums on the NCLB, table with factsheets, Opt-Out letters, rally, resist, resist, resist!



Get more information by visiting NNOMY's website
www.youthandthemilitary.org



Printer-friendly versions of popular resources regarding youth and the military such as:

10 Points to Consider Before You Sign a Military Enlistment Agreement, Do You Know Enough to Enlist?, and Making Soldiers in the Public Schools are all available at:

www.afsc.org/youthmil/Default.htm


Call for more info:

Liz Rivera Goldstein - liz (at) teenpeace.org liz (at) teenpeace.org> ,
360-379-9094

Janine Schwab - jschwab (at) afsc.org jschwab (at) afsc.org> ,
215-241-7176


SEC. 9528. ARMED FORCES RECRUITER ACCESS TO STUDENTS AND STUDENT RECRUITING INFORMATION.

(a) POLICY-

(1) ACCESS TO STUDENT RECRUITING INFORMATION- Notwithstanding section

444(a)(5)(B) of the General Education Provisions Act and except as provided in paragraph (2), each local educational agency receiving assistance under this Act shall provide, on a request made by military recruiters or an institution of higher education, access to secondary school students names, addresses, and telephone listings.



(2) CONSENT- A secondary school student or the parent of the student may request that the student's name, address, and telephone listing described in paragraph (1) not be released without prior written parental consent, and the local educational agency or private school shall notify parents of the option to make a request and shall comply with any request.



(3) SAME ACCESS TO STUDENTS- Each local educational agency receiving assistance under this Act shall provide military recruiters the same access to secondary school students as is provided generally to post secondary educational institutions or to prospective employers of those students.



(b) NOTIFICATION- The Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, shall, not later than 120 days after the date of enactment of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, notify principals, school administrators, and other educators about the requirements of this
section.



(c) EXCEPTION- The requirements of this section do not apply to a private secondary school that maintains a religious objection to service in the Armed Forces if the objection is verifiable through the corporate or other organizational documents or materials of that school.



(d) SPECIAL RULE- A local educational agency prohibited by Connecticut State law (either explicitly by statute or through statutory
interpretation by the State Supreme Court or State Attorney General) from providing military recruiters with information or access as
required by this section shall have until May 31, 2002, to comply with that requirement.