Enrolled my kid in high school re: opt-out military recruiters paper

[beyurslf]

I am a new foster parent with no kids of my own so this was the first time I had ever gone to enroll a kid in school before. He is in 11th grade. The person going over the paperwork with me hands me a handful of papers. I tell her I need to take some papers to his social worker because I am not his legal educational advocate. She shows me which ones will need her signuture.
Then she pulls out one that says I can sign. She says, "Oh, you are going to want to sign this." I ask her what it is. She says, "This is the opt-out paper telling us you don't want us to give out his information to military recruiters." She points to a signuate line and says "You sign right there to keep everything private and deny access."

Of course I signed.

She knew right where the paper was in the packet and I imagine she pointed this out to everyone who came in. Anyone else have a similiar account?

[City Lights]

1. We opted our daughter out when we registered her for HS earlier

this month. No one pointed it out to us though.

[Kali]

2. No one at our high school would point it out

if anything they might "lose" them. They have "career" day about once a week at this school - the only folks who show up are military recruiters.

[lies and propaganda]

3. wish they would have done that shit when i was in hs

Lots changed since 98, now they need all the bodies they can get.

Cheers to both you and your guidance counselor doing whats right!

[zcflint09]

4. In high school

We were never presented with an option to "opt out" and this was only a year ago. Instead we got barraged by Air Force, Army, Navy and Marines recruiters once a month, and they used free pens and goodies to draw kids over to the table. Sometimes they'd go walking through the school courtyard randomly approaching older looking kids. Imagine the suprise they had when they came up to me and saw my pride braclet! It was priceless!

[LWolf]

5. Send her flowers.

I would bet that this is rare.

In my previous district, she would have been "reassigned."

[beyurslf]

6. The school is in a high population minority disctrict with lots of

non-citizen students and students of parents who may not be here legally and/or don't speak English. I think it is great that she is doing that because so many of them could easily not sign the form or think they could be punished for signing it. They also had every form --including that one-- in Spanish.

[Imagevision]

7. Really! send her flowers..

[tinfoil tiaras]

8. Good thing my high school doesn't have that!

I don't think army recruiters can come to a private school if the school doesn't want 'em to come. Which is a very good thing. :D