Do you have a problem with military recruiters going to your child's school? Many teenagers at high schools are being recruited to the military by mostly lies recruiters tell. Even though High schoolers after graduating go to the military without knowing what they will face once there, military recruiters need to be more specific about the military. Many teenage high schoolers try to go looking for all those opportunities they were told and too many of them are joining hoping to look for a good life & education but ends up being the opposite of what they expected.
The decision to join the military is a very serious one that should not be made lightly. Enlisting in the Armed Forces is an irreversible commitment to at least two years of wartime service. Teenagers considering enlisting should do so based on an honest and straightforward appraisal of the facts, rather than having the wrong advertising campaigns that glamorize military service without knowing its dangers. …show more content…
Funding for military recruitment is always on the rise. The 2009 military advertising budget totals $20.5 Billion. This money is used for slick ads and video games designed by the same marketing firms that create commercials for major corporations, such as Coca-Cola, McDonald’s and Nintendo. These ads and video games do not accurately portray the lives of soldiers and do not mention the dangers of war. But it is one of the few tactics the military uses to convince young adults.
Under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), schools are required to give recruiters access to students and student information. The NCLB and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) require that parents be told that they have the right to keep recruiters away from their children. High schools throughout the State do not notify parents of this right adequately, or at
The decision to join the military is a very serious one that should not be made lightly. Enlisting in the Armed Forces is an irreversible commitment to at least two years of wartime service. Teenagers considering enlisting should do so based on an honest and straightforward appraisal of the facts, rather than having the wrong advertising campaigns that glamorize military service without knowing its dangers. …show more content…
Funding for military recruitment is always on the rise. The 2009 military advertising budget totals $20.5 Billion. This money is used for slick ads and video games designed by the same marketing firms that create commercials for major corporations, such as Coca-Cola, McDonald’s and Nintendo. These ads and video games do not accurately portray the lives of soldiers and do not mention the dangers of war. But it is one of the few tactics the military uses to convince young adults.
Under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), schools are required to give recruiters access to students and student information. The NCLB and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) require that parents be told that they have the right to keep recruiters away from their children. High schools throughout the State do not notify parents of this right adequately, or at