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CA Senate to vote on multi-million dollar youth cannon fodder program: fast-tracking JROTC AB1569
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Desperate to recruit cannon fodder any way possible, Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC) programs prey on and recruit 14 and 15-year olds in California schools. These youth are mainly those from less fortunate families.
Youth are not suspicious of what clinical psychologist, Dr. Teresa Whitehurst calls “glorious reward offered by authorities who have everything to gain from youthful gullibility and willing martyrdom.”
AB 1569 supporting JROTC in schools being fast-tracked through Senate
Instead of ridding JROTC from schools, as many parents and teachers want, California AB 1569 reinstates physical education credit for JROTC.
AB 1569 furthermore sandwiches JROTC in with marching band, and cheer leading squads, among others and is being fast-tracked through the state Senate.
Forty-five hundred Los Angeles youth have been recruited into the military from JROTC, most in impoverished areas according to USC Annenberg in its short documentary, “Impact Episode 44: Junior ROTC.”
The JROTC program has cost California taxpayers $2 million last year in Los Angeles and $1 million from district funds in San Francisco.
JROTC is a primary military recruitment programs, preying on students with less hope and who cannot "Just say 'No.'"
Being less apt to say "No" is dangerous when ordered to commit criminal offenses as a soldier.
The Pentagon and their hand-picked military instructors run JROTC, but they are not certified teachers.
California teachers oppose AB 1569 now in Senate Committee
California Teachers Association opposed AB 351 and opposes 1569 because it grants physical education credit without credentialed teachers and classes that meet no state physical education curriculum standards.
The AB 1569 author, Mary Salas (D-San Diego) attached the original language of AB 351, the earlier voted down bill, to another bill, AB 1569.
AB 1569 would risk the health of California's children instead of providing real physical education.
The Assembly, on May 21, passed this with a vote 77-0. In the Senate, the Committee on Veterans Affairs passed the Amended version. It has now been referred to the Committee on Education. It is end of session when things move fast in the Senate.
The San Francisco Board of Education voted over two years ago to phase out JROTC and this was scheduled to end this June at all seven San Francisco high schools.
Ever since the “No Child Left Behind Act” was more widely known to require school districts to give to the military access to names, addresses, and telephone numbers of high-school students as a condition of receiving the federal funds, there has been increasing concerns about recruiting in schools.
If a school district were to not give the information to the military so it could recruit, it loses its federal funding, as Jacob Hornberger writes, “even if all those children are supposedly “left behind” as a consequence.”
The fortunate youth has parents able to protect their children from the U.S. military and its wrongful invasions.
Th fortunate youth has parents able to protecting children’s lives and limbs from being wasted in a wrongful and destructive causes but also in the hope of ensuring that their children are not put in the horrible moral dilemma of either killing innocent people or being killed.
It is the unfortunate youth who fall prey to the military. Those seduced by ROTC are less likely to survive.
Ending this program would be a tremendous victory for citizens who believe that all students should be afforded a well-rounded education and be learning critical thinking skills.
For those opposed to youth being subjected to military indoctrination, or the military’s discriminatory “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy that is criticized as partially responsible for high suicide rates in the armed services, peace workers say that now is the time to let your voice be heard.
Remaining silent is a vote for passing a bill for youth to forfeit education and instead, be used in the American war machine.
Learn more, take action, ask “Why?” and "WHY not?” This bill is being fast tracked. Call your State Senator now. Ask her/him to oppose AB 1569. See this site for more information or this one for Senator contact details.
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