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Adonis33
Guest
Although this is an editorial - I thnk that this is very disturbing.
SAN FRANCISCO public schools have problems, but a popular military-themed program isn’t one of them.
Still, a four-vote majority of the seven-member Board of Education is likely this week to cancel the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps classes. The justifications are predictable: School leaders must stand up to the Pentagon’s half-baked “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gay service members, and to the war in Iraq.
This blunderbuss sloganeering fits snugly with an advisory vote last year barring military recruiting at schools. But the reasoning, compelling as it sounds to progressive San Francisco, is inadequate. The high-flown arguments fall apart when drill-and-discipline JROTC basics are examined.
sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/11/13/EDGSJMADUC1.DTL
SAN FRANCISCO public schools have problems, but a popular military-themed program isn’t one of them.
Still, a four-vote majority of the seven-member Board of Education is likely this week to cancel the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps classes. The justifications are predictable: School leaders must stand up to the Pentagon’s half-baked “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gay service members, and to the war in Iraq.
This blunderbuss sloganeering fits snugly with an advisory vote last year barring military recruiting at schools. But the reasoning, compelling as it sounds to progressive San Francisco, is inadequate. The high-flown arguments fall apart when drill-and-discipline JROTC basics are examined.
sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/11/13/EDGSJMADUC1.DTL