Reply #3: It's strictly No Child Left Behind when the Pentagon needs

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more cannon fodder.

There's this nice little hidden clause in it that requires all schools to turn over to the government - the names of ALL 17 and 18 year old students - for military recruitment purposes. You CAN opt out, but you have to do it in writing - to both the individual school AND to the school district, and nobody makes much effort to apprise the public of this. If it weren't for peace groups and government watchdog organizations, we'd never even have known about it. Our valiant mainstream media hasn't exactly broken a sweat trying to get that information on the air or anywhere on the front page.