Release of student data to military protested

[The Sushi Bandit]

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2003/Sep/06/ln/ln05a.html

HILO, Hawai'i — Public schools have distributed notices to about 18,000 high-school juniors and seniors across the state advising them their names and phone numbers will be released to military recruiters unless they or their parents object.

The notice drew protests from a few parents, who said it was an invasion of privacy for the state Department of Education to give unlisted phone numbers to recruiters.

"I think the American Civil Liberties Union should be on this," said Gina Zapara, a parent with two seniors and a 10th-grader enrolled at Kapa'a High School on Kaua'i. "They're going after all of our liberties at this point."

[bobthedrummer]

1. Then there is Admiral Poindexter's Big Brother system for those that

don't comply.
TIA.
http://www.darpa.mil/iao/TIASystems.htm
Or is it GIA?
http://opengov.media.mit.edu/GIA/TIA.html

[AndyTiedye]

2. Those Will Be Turned Over to the Draft Boards Soon

It won't be just a little draft either. More like a tornado.

[The Sushi Bandit]

3. I'm outraged on how this is happening on the islands

so, where on the mainland has this happening also?????

[Palacsinta]

4. My kids were contacted by recruiters in high school

all the time, starting in their junior and senior years. (My daughter actually was in the Army Reserve for six years.) I didn't think alot about recruiters contacting them back then, 1993-95, 'cause lots of kids were joining for the experience, college money......the usual. Now, however, is a different story. Anyway, I think my kids took some sort of service qualifying test in high school.....can't remember if they volunteered, or it was mandatory. Never thought about how the service was getting the private info, tho'.

[The Sushi Bandit]

5. What will they think of next?