Counter-Recruiters in High School

摘要

The No Child Left Behind Act requires all federally funded high schools to provide military recruiters with high school directory information. This requirement is essential to preserving an all-volunteer military force. Even so, among their target market (of high school senior males), enlisted recruiters compete with colleges for applicants. In addition, few key influencers (parents, teachers, and coaches) recommend military service. But the counter-recruiter movement, a grassroots organization, which has gained national attention since January 2005, is by far the military recruiter's greatest obstacle, challenging the military's ability to meet its annual recruiting goals by staging anti-recruitment demonstrations on high school and college campuses across America. Counter recruiters attempt to deny military recruiters access to student directory information and high school campuses and the most extreme members of the counter-recruitment movement seek to end military recruiting in high schools altogether. Equipped with the knowledge that some recruiters lie to applicants, politicians lie to the public, and young people are killed in war, counter recruiters are blinded by the inaccurate information that shapes their personal and political opinions.