The Christian Science Monitor(www.csmonitor.com) reported on May 18, 2005 that a Seattle High School, Garfield High School, has voted to ban military recruiters on campus.
The Military claims access due to provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act that require any school accepting federal funding to give the military the names of its students, unless the students specifically opt out at the beginning of the year. They also claim freedom of speech.
The parents of the students claim that military recruiters are misrepresenting the real obligation of the sign up. The military states that the recruiters are just giving information and not making promises and in fact on the sign up documents the recruit signs state that he/she understands that any promises of the recruiter are null and void.
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