An obscure provision buried deep in the 670 pages of the No
Child Left Behind Act, passed by Congress a year ago, requires
public schools to turn over names, address, and phone numbers of
all their students to military recruiters. As Mother
Jones (Nov./Dec. 2002) reports, the Pentagon is routinely
spurned by more than 19,000 schools nationwide, leading Rep. David
Vitter (R-Louisiana) to sponsor the provision. Such schools, he
said, “demonstrated an anti-military attitude that I thought was
offensive.”
