Thousands of Youths Are Compelled to Join Military's Junior ROTC - 0 views
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JROTC programs, taught by military veterans at some 3,500 high schools across the country, are supposed to be elective, and the Pentagon has said requiring students to take them goes against its guidelines. But The New York Times found thousands of public school students were being funneled into the classes without ever having chosen them, either as an explicit requirement or by being automatically enrolled.
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A vast majority of the schools with those high enrollment numbers were attended by a large proportion of nonwhite students and those from low-income households
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parents in some cities say their children are being forced to put on military uniforms, obey a chain of command and recite patriotic declarations in classes they never wanted to take
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