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Should the military be allowed to recruit in high schools?
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Permalink Reply by Harley Jane on -
We don't have that here. Instead, each university/institute/academy/group have an open day or two when any students who are interested can wander around the campus/grounds/whatever and take a look at what's on offer. Generally speaking current employees or students will give group tours explaining what it's really like, and that's when you pick up all the information. Then you go home and sit on it for a few months until it's time to choose what you want to do.
I think this is a good idea because it gives people time to really think things through, but I understand that it might not be feasible in a country with so many people. I also like that here you tend to get an honest idea of what you're getting yourself into from people who are where you aim to be in a couple of years, because it's not in their interest to lie to you. I'm not sure how it works there exactly.
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Permalink Reply by Barbara on -
I personally don't see a issue with the military recruiting. What I do have an issue with is some of the recruiters and what tactics they use to recruit people. I think the military needs to do a better job in training them properly, and also in making sure they don't cross the line in how the recruit. They recruited at my high school, but they also had an office, and I noticed a big difference in the recruiters, one of them was nice and I think honest to the students. Another which my sister worked with, was almost a damn near stalker and very aggressive, and I feel some of the information and promises he made to her were questionable and sometimes outright lies. My mother ended up lodging a compliant about him and his tactics.
ps: When they had the don't ask don't tell policy I fully supported colleges who wouldn't allow them to recruit on campus because of the clearly discrimnatory practices. Which never made sense to me because why should our military have those policies when any other company/employer in america wasn't allowed to?
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Permalink Reply by Joslin Williams on -
Yes and no. I think that it's a great career opportunity for kids who don't have the option of going to college or don't want to. However, I think their presence on high school campuses should be limited. My high school seemed to give the marine recruiter free rein at my school and I thought that was inappropriate. (To give you an idea of how often he was at our school: He played in the student v faculty basketball game.) Kids should be given the option to join, not influenced by their schools to join.
I highly suggest anyone thinking about the military research the facts before they go in. Recruiters don't answer the questions you don't ask and high school kids never think of the right questions...hell 20/30/40 year olds wouldn't think to ask the right questions.
I'm a military wife and my husband joined right out of high school. It worked out to be a great decision for him, as well as a lot of my friends and even my sister. If it weren't for the recruiters targeting them as high school students, they may haven't found that opportunity on their own.
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