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TIL: The No Child Left Behind Act requires schools to provide contact information for students to military recruiters

via reddit.com

jesus christ

To be fair, my high school had an office expressly for recruiters and as a requirement to graduate, we HAD to take the ASVAB.

Thats what happens when schools aren’t funded well. You either get out through sports or the military; if you were academic, you were largely on your own. And this was before NCLB.

My junior year of high school there was a day that if we were there we were all made to go to the auditorium and forced to take the asvab with recruiters from each branch standing watch.

Yep, we took the ASVAB too. It was marketed as a way to see what your strengths were, and what jobs those strengths might apply to. BUT. The weirdest day was when all the boys had to register for the draft our senior year. They just dropped cards off in the middle of art class, and the guys had to fill them out and return them.

I mean it’s illegal for boys the age of 18 to not register for the draft and maybe a lot of kids that age don’t have access to the materials to need to register for it on their own or just won’t so why is that an issue

I should mention that this was a relatively affluent group, it being a private, Southern Baptist high school. Not that we didn’t have people from all economic levels, but I only personally knew of one or two poor kids, and none of them were in my class.

I also don’t remember it being military types that dropped them off, but an office worker from the school. Just seems like the kind of thing that should be mailed perhaps.

Okay, I don’t really know how the military works in the US but, as far as I’m aware, NOTHING like that happens in England. Like, people are recruiting adolescents to risk their lives?! That’s fucked up! If you want to join the military for whatever reason then coolio, but this ‘draft’ thing sounds like you’re FORCED. Like, how can that still be a thing?

Every male between 18 and 25 living in the US is required to register for the Selective Service. Notice I didn’t say male citizens. Documented and undocumented immigrants are also required to register. In the event of a draft, which hasn’t happened since the Vietnam War, they’d be called up and evaluated to see if they were fit for military service.