A group of professors at Southwestern College in Chula Vista say parents are being deceived. They say a form that lets them keep schools from giving their kids' information to military recruiters is too misleading. The professors held a "Books Not Bullets" forum on campus. KPBS reporter Beth Ford Roth has more.
The three professors spoke to students about a provision of the No Child Left Behind law that requires schools receiving federal funds to give students' private information to military recruiters. That's unless parents sign an opt-out form forbidding the school from handing over that information. The form is usually sent home at the beginning of the year, usually mixed in a packet of other back-to-school paperwork.
History professor Victor Chavez says the form doesn't clearly state at the top it's about military recruiting.
Chavez: "Opt-in or opt-out addresses a greater problem, the absence of clarity, and bureaucrats throughout this nation are constructing language that unfortunately end up deceitful."
The professors urged students to support federal legislation that would prevent schools from handing over information to recruiters, unless parents want them to. Beth Ford Roth, KPBS news.
