Why do they let Army recruiters in High Schools? What can we do to get rid of them?

Buffy

It is interesting, isn't it? We can't have Bible study, pray, or sing our anthem, but we can learn how to kill. Take a vote. If the majority wins, have your student council see the principal and ask for recruiters to stay away. There is no law that says they have the right to come.

tmoondove28

I feel that the recruiters should be allowed to come into our schools and that they should'nt be pushed out. No matter what our views may or may not be our children have the right as americans to make the final choice on what they want to do in the future and we as parents don't have the right to dictate or try to keep any options from them.

Mark W

We Army Recruiters go to High Schools to help adults avoid ending up at McDonald's flipping burgers while still at the Community College trying to get a degree, when they are 35. Just like you will probably end up. The majority of High School and College Students DO NOT have a plan, and that is how you have adults working fast food. No Plan, No Life. We try to avoid that. I never met a Burger Flipper that served in the Army, unless you count Dave Thomas (founder of Wendy's).

If you don't want us there, you and all your friends hurry up and enlist. If enoughpeople were to walk in to Recruiting Stations and enlist, we wouldn't have to go to schools to recruit.

More people that enlisted (percentage) have become successful than the percentage of those that did not. Don't be so closed minded, hear them out, see what is offered, you may know someone else that can benefit from what the Army has to offer.

By the way, San Francisco voted us out, but it was against federal law, so they had to compromise. Most High School and College students in SF can't pass the ASVAB, so we could care less. Just check the graduation numbers after the exit exam failures.

soprano918

Get over it. If you or your kid isn't interested, ignore them or tell them you're not interested. They can still be there. Schools have job fairs, too, which other employers. Are you trying to kick them out, too?

Edited to add: if they won't leave you alone, which I've known to happen, you could tell them you/your daughter is pregnant. That usually does the trick if you/she is a girl, obviously.

misskittypti

It's basically the same thing as letting college recruiters in a school. If you tell one they can't come, then you have to tell them all.

ole_lady_93

army Recruiters have always went to the school- to get young uns to join- Good thing before they get out of school and have alot of free time to land in JAIL

ticktoc...

highschool kids dont know what to do after high school and get inspired by the recruiters.
p.s have respect

dreth

Ignore them and they'll leave you alone. Kind of like the monsters under your bed.

dismalrelic

They all get government funding for their schools and if they don't allow them to come on school grounds to do their recruiting they lose that money for whatever they are using it for,it sure isn't for books I can tell you that.Everything revolves around the government these days

oaksterdamhippiechick

Do what San Francisco did - vote 'em out!

jordanjd4

another example of liberal tolerance. I love the way you say, I don't like something so noone anywhere should be allowed to do it anymore.
what a joke!

fr_chuck

They are recruters just like any other firm or company, and offer the high school grad some good opportunities.

Plus since the schools take federal funding, they are required by law to allow them.

rockydriver22

Because that is the age they they are looking at. If u want to find a drunk, go to the bar.same holds true here. No way to get rid of them

just4fun20034

People have choices, high school or not.

loubean

The same reason they let college representatives into High Schools....kids need to know what choices they have for a life after high school...what's the big deal?

shakeragroad_2000

They should let Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and the Coast Guard in the schools. If colleges and companies can come into the schools then so should the military.

MikeGolf

The same reason the let blacks, Indians, Hispanics etc. into your school.

Because discrimination is wrong. And it is doubly wrong when the people you are discriminating against are the same ones who guard you in your sleep.

vze4h35z@verizon.net

Parents can sign papers so they don't bother their kids in schools.

starting over

You have no right to expect them not to be there. They let you there.

They offer an excellent opportunity for many kids, who may not be ready for college or who may not have the money for college.

Besides, if you are not interested, just ignored them, they probably don't want you.

asmul8ed

Now this is funny...If you have a problem with your school letting a federal representative in, you need to go find a school that doesn't take federal money. Good luck with that one. Until then get over it, and let the individual student decide if they would like to provide a valued service to our country. By the way...that Army recruiter and everything he/she stands for is defending your ability to have this opinion/discussion, think about that next time you decide you would like to spit on his/her job.

DAR

Why should we? They have as much right as any other employer. More if you figure that a lot of education funds are federal.

boker_magnum

If you get rid of military recruiters you'd have to get rid of government funding for the schools. It's ok to take the money, but not ok to let the military recruiters in??? You really are misinformed.

danuitti

The Army is a great career. (for some). They provide career training. They provide FREE college. There is also a very good chance to see the world through the Army.

Where else can you go to BLOW UP STUFF? Where else can you go to hike deep into the woods, and jump off cliffs? Where else can you go to GET PAID to exercise and get beefy?

OH, the Army is not for you? Then join the Marines.

classical_maniac101

People have the right to be informed and be in the Armed Forces. This is America. If you don't want someone to learn about how to fight then you go and fight for your own freedom on the front line. You wouldn't do that? Then support someone else to do so.

NONAME

tell them you have already contracted with the Marine Corps?

are you a student, faculty member, parent, or just another anti american puke sticking their nose into someone elsesbusiness?

toughguy2

They have a right to be there and inform young men and women about what the Army has to offer. If a kid wants to join and serve in the Army after talking to their parents it is very honorable and noble. They talked to us when I was in high school so what is the problem with this unless you are just anti miltary or something? I went in the Navy because I wanted to and I am glad I did.

william R

actually if you want them out there is away. write a letter to your congressman/woman telling them that you want them out.You should realize this, that some people want them there and, also the world does not revolve around you. If you don't like America the get out

Bradly S

There is a clause in the US Constitution that mentions a person's right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I had a Marine Corps recruiter come into my high school and tell me about what he had to offer me, and doing my job as a Marine made me exceedingly happy. By not allowing him into my high school, I would have been denied the pursuit of happiness.

There is also a law on the books about restriction of free trade. By denying the military recruiters a chance to go into the schools and do what they earn their money doing, then you are denying them the very free trade they are entitled to.

At my school, on job day, there were booths with funeral directors (talking about sticking needles into dead people, draining the blood out of them, and filling them with chemicals designed to prevent them from decaying for 50 years), policemen (talking about how, with hard work, yes, we could be snipers on the SWAT teams and kill people for a living), and a couple of other things that bothered me. Should they be prevented from being there because I didn't like them being there?

ben s

because they represent a legitamate college and career oportunity, you wanna get rid of them? leave the country; go to france

Buster H

I was going to do a major discourse here, but Soprano hit it dead on.
I have nothing to add. Good job S!!

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