ROTC Recruitment
When a child reaches his or her teenage years, he or she is just beginning to develop an understanding of the world. Teenagers rely on adults to help them make life decisions wisely.
The Reserve Officer Training Corps specializes in going into high schools, separating our children from their parents and teachers, and once getting them alone, attempting to convince them to go to war, where if Iraq is any indication, the soldiers will be kept beyond their tour of duty, subject to horrible stresses, or killed, and may even become involved in acts any just society considers criminal, such as torture. However, the ROTC recruiters will only mention how a student can get money for college or “strength for later” as the latest advertisements put it. Many of these recruiters use “pressure tactics” such as suggesting that a teenage boy is homosexual if he will not join the army.
I believe school is for learning, not for making soldiers. I don’t want our children being subject to this kind of pressure, and certainly not without their parents being present to hear what is being said, and to give their children the benefit of their parents’ advice and wisdom. I will do everything in my power to reduce or eliminate the ability of the ROTC to come into our schools and lure our children off to war.