Reply #6: Most absurd headline (due to an absurd story) I have read in a while. [View All]

[salin]

a real wtf story. Working with urban youth, I can not think of a one who would make the decision to stay in school because... they might get a chance to ride in a tank. At best it might serve as an incentive for a student who is often absent to get to school on the day of the tank rides, but that is about it.

On the other hand, if the idea was to try to promote the idea of "coolness" of selecting the military as a career, in an era where urban youth enlistments have been declining (as has been the case since a year or so after this war began, that suddenly enlisting was losing its magnet as an alternative way "out of poverty" via a career that does not involve college) - that is a slightly less absurd goal for such a program (going to school to give tank rides) as the goal and the activity are related. Of course that isn't what is being claimed to be the point of the program.