With the recent war in Iraq, Parents and Teachers alike are skeptical about the Military recruitments in public schools.
Military recruiters routinely visit schools to discuss careers offers in the armed forces. They hold various stage demonstrations and also hand out gifts from T-shirts to doughnuts. The 2001 'No Child Left Behind' Act of states that all public schools receiving government funds must give the military access to students' personal information, including home phone numbers. Schools that do not comply can lose federal funding.
Generally these military recruiters do not make the students aware of the dangers of the Military Lifestyle . They just project it as an adventure with fun and discipline. Some schools also make it mandatory for their students to attend the Military recruitment programs. Though parents have a legal right to disallow the military from contacting their children. However, not all schools make parents aware of that right.
Sources say that the Military has been losing out a lot due to the American involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan. Hence, they need the workforce. Also, they offer a good pay and college education. However, they need to make kids aware what they are getting into apart from all the goodies that they offer. Some experts say that the child should be old or mature enough to take the decision about joining the military rather having them deciding at a young age when they cannot determine the consequences of their decision.
Some schools have also went ahead and announced that public schools are not a place for military recruiters. Over the time some parents have also realized that tax money spent for the Iraq war is money not spent on children's educations or other domestic needs.
Army has also included many tactics to get in more enlistment. Apart from offering citizenship quickly, they also lure the students with openings in various good sectors apart from the combat jobs of the army, payment of college education and many other subsidies.
However, the daily images of violence from Iraq are scaring away potential recruits for the service. When parents read about the latest bomb blast or ambush that killed American soldiers, skepticism has grown within them to avoid their child from such a fatal career.
The declining job market may probably help the Military recruiter to complete their enlistment targets. But with the wave of terrorist attacks and deteriorating life of soldiers in Iraq, so many possible recruits may give the Military career a pass.
Thomas Mathews
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