Freakin' Biased school forms:

Well, I was just going through my new school year forms, and found these two things (click for larger view).




Well, apparently AUSD has taken the initiative to warn parents that "Non-consent" is the way to go. Let's all protest Bush's illegal and immoral Military Recruiter Mailing List scheme by not letting them have our info! Just to clarify thatt, they underline AND bold "not" and the word "will". Note that in the first paragraph, they say they are "required to provide the names, addresses and telephone numbers of high school students to military recruiters." whereas later they say "... be provided to the military recruiters at their request" (these words are not bolded in the form). So they trick you into thinking that you will be recruited, but in fact only if the military wants to recruit you they will. They also seem to have a strange desire to bold and underline "do not want this information released".
Why is this so important? Because schools can be judged on what students do after graduating. "Military" looks bad to parents who want to come to Albany, so they will go somewhere else and poor Albany schools will not receive their federal funding for a few more students.

Then, on another form of non-consent, instead of "NON-CONSENT FORM" in large letters, we get "Release of Personal Information". There is no emphasis on anything, but some words that stand out are "Non-profit" and "Support Albany schools". Oh, the military is also a non-profit organization (they cost billions to fund), but we'll leave that out because we think they are fighting for oil and it will lose us some precious money. Even though this school district obviously just wants my money, it's all good because the money comes in through the endless solicitations of "non-profit" organisations.

So, in short, the message I read from these forms: DON'T JOIN THE MILITARY! (and we want/give us money). Isn't that all schools think about? All the freakin' commies at my school only care about money. Cold, hard cash. Pathetic. Albany, CA has supposedly some of the finest schools in the area, but they still have their own odious interests and political motives fueling their surreptitious animosity for the military portrayed in these forms. DON'T GO TO ALBANY SCHOOLS (unless you have to).

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