Regruiters calling themselves 'couselors' in High schools

[rodeodance]

Jim Lehrer has a good story on tonight about military recriters in high schools who call themselves couselors--they stress the good points about what the milatary and do not even mention Irag and the wars when are in. When asked about this one counselor --(recruiter) said that they are not CNN--that the students already know about the wars. Good grief.

[hippiechick]

1. What's a regruiter ?

:shrug:

:hippie:

[LosinIt]

2. Oh, Silly, it's someone who cruits again

I can make typos also, no problem.

[Sparkly]

3. Are these "counselors" in uniform?

Sounds manipulative to rename themselves "counselors."

Also, do they go to each and every high school, and if not how do they pick, I wonder?

[orpupilofnature57]

4. Went to a sports hat store,two marine recruiters,told me this

is what they had been reduced to,hawking at lowest denominator locals where young people,tread.Halliburton schooling the councilors?

[gratuitous]

5. Gotta avoid that draft at all costs

The military has already creamed the best and the brightest; they're reduced to hitting on the trapped and the ignorant. Think of it as the ersatz Lothario right after the bartender announces last call. All the turndowns are suddenly a LOT more attractive if he isn't going to go home alone tonight.

[sakabatou]

6. The people

go after the ones that will be recruited; the poor minority.

[truth2power]

7. I saw that story tonight.

You could tell those recruiters knew they were manipulating the kids. Counselors, indeed!!

[montieg]

8. I am a school counselor in Texas

and under the Patriot Act, we are required to allow recruiters into the school and have contact with the students. Now, as a draft-dodger similar to our illustrious pResident, I have reservations. He and I both joined the National guard to escape Vietnam. I, however, served in an armored personnel carrier (MOS 11E) for six FULL years. While I have misgivings about aspects of the military, I have seen some of my former students really become better people from the service. And they do get an education. I have not had ANY experiences with recruiters posing as anything but exactly what they are-- in uniform-- and they have not skirted the hard questions from my kids. I didn't see the Lehrer piece, so I can't address it, but I have no complaints about the recruiters I have contact with.