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PONO ALERT: Students Given Chance To Remove Names From Schools' List Given To Military Recruiters

Posted by Pomaikaiokalani on August 31, 2010 at 3:48am in Politics

Students Given Chance To Remove Names From Schools' List Given To Military Recruiters

By Star-Advertiser Staff

POSTED: 09:51 p.m. HST, Aug 30, 2010

Students and parents at state middle, intermediate and high schools have until Sept. 15 to remove their names from a national list given annually to military recruiters by the Department of Education under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

The DOE has developed an opt-out form for military recruiting for students and parents, available for download on the DOE website. Students or guardians that submit the forms will have their names and contact information removed from a list sent to Inter-Service Recruitment Council in mid-October. Requests filed between 2007 and 2010 will be honored until the students leave the DOE system.

Request forms are accepted year-round, but may take longer to process if submitted after the Sept. 15 deadline. For more information, students and parents can call the DOE at (808) 692-7290.

 

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  • Pomaikaiokalani August 31, 2010 at 9:25am
    Mahalo Kim for all of your vigilance on the Board of Education and for being such a strong advocate for youth!



    On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Kim Coco Iwamoto wrote:

    Congratulations!
    These kinds of successes do not come often enough. We made a difference.
    I am blown away when I think about how many of our kids will not be bribed/extorted into fighting in a manufactured, for-profit war, how many of them will not be killed, and how many of them will not be killing men, women and children, because we did our part to make "opting out" more accessible.


    I am humbled to work in solidarity with all of you.


    Kim Coco
  • HALE O KEAWE-A-HEULU aka: NAIHE August 31, 2010 at 7:44am
    I recently came across some information on youtube of a Former CIA Analyst saying that the United States does not have any more US Marines to have the U.S. start more wars somewhere - like defending Israel should Israel and Iran go to war. It made sense and why they are looking at restarting the draft process. U.S. Marines are the first to be sent over and the most wounded or killed in action before the other branches of military fall behind them in their uniformed sequence of "military strategy". I don't want to see the draft unfold - I remember in the 60's of draft hush hush talk and who from what family was drafted, who went awol, etc just on the Vietnam war....no realease of information for sake of confidentiality and privacy!

    Mahalo Pomai for sharing this story.
  • Pomaikaiokalani August 31, 2010 at 7:40am
    Let all secondary students and parents know about the opt out form and deadline!

    AFSC Hawai'i's CHOICES project, Truth2Youth, Maui Careers in Peacemaking, and the Kaua'i Alliance for Peace and Social Justice have worked for years to get the DOE to improve its "opt out" procedures. The forms were difficult to understand and largely inaccessible to most students and parents. Some schools did not notify students until after the deadline. And there were cases where parents opted out and the names were still given to the military. The first year that students were allowed to opt themselves out of the list, the numbers jumped from around 2000 to over 20,000. This year I was told that the forms were in the registration packets as we had recommended. A teacher at Farrington reported that he had a 4-inch high stack of student-completed opt-out forms.
    Looks like our efforts are having an impact! Mahalo and congratulations!

    Kyle
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