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DESCRIPTION:It is time for JROTC to go.\n\nSan Francisco School Board\nTuesday, March 
 24, 2009 – 6:00 pm\n555 Franklin Street at McAllister\n\nThe San 
 Francisco Board of Education voted over two years ago to phase out the 
 Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. JROTC is run by the Pentagon and 
 their hand-picked military instructors. It is scheduled to end this 
 June.\n\nBut the Pentagon and their allies are trying to overturn the 
 school board decision and preserve their beachhead in our schools. At next 
 Tuesday’s school board meeting, Jill Wynns is introducing a resolution to 
 keep the military program.\n\nThe school board voted to phase out JROTC 
 because San Franciscans do not want the military in our schools, a military 
 that preys on working class youth, particularly from communities of color. 
 Nor do San Franciscans support a program that won’t hire openly LGBT 
 instructors in line with the Pentagon’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” 
 policy. JROTC targets children as young as 14 and 15.\n\nJROTC costs school 
 district taxpayers one million dollars per year. Why should we fund a 
 military program when teachers are facing mass layoffs?\n\nLast November, 
 downtown and military money funded the “Yes on V” campaign, supposedly 
 aimed at supporting JROTC, but really aimed at creating a “wedge issue” 
 to defeat progressive candidates for the Board of Supervisors. They poured 
 $200,000 into this campaign, gained a small victory with Prop V, but lost 
 every Supervisor campaign. Despite being out-spent 15 to 1, the anti-JROTC 
 and pro-people forces got nearly 150,000 votes.\n\nCome to the School Board 
 meeting on Tuesday, March 24, and help give the boot to the military!\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/03/22/18580875.php
SUMMARY:No on V: Military Out of Our Schools
LOCATION:San Francisco School Board\n555 Franklin Street at McAllister\n\nCome to 
 the School Board meeting on Tuesday, March 24, and help give the boot to 
 the military!
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/03/22/18580875.php
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