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Federal education law allows military recruiters into high schools.
Byline: Linda Borg
PROVIDENCE, R.I. _ A high school senior walked into the assistant principal's office. Flustered, the young woman said that a man who identified himself as an Army recruiter called her and set up an appointment at her home.
He told the young woman he was contacting other students at her school, but when she talked with friends the next day, none of them said they had received any phone calls.
"She came in and panicked and said, `What do I do?'" Patricia Roberts-Aull, the assistant principal of Mount Hope High School, recalled.
Roberts-Aull confirmed that the recruiter was legitimate, but she found the phone call disturbing nonetheless.
"You, as a teenager, don't know how to react when you hear this on the phone," she says. "Anyone could call and say I'm so-and-so. I don't want some unstable person to hop onto this. I believe these kids need to be protected."
Teenagers and parents may be getting more calls at dinnertime these days, thanks to a provision in the 1,200-page No Child Left Behind Act that requires high schools ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Federal education law allows military recruiters into high schools.