JROTC: The Struggle Continues

by Randy Shaw via Beyond Chron

Thu, Mar 19, 2009 7:53AM

Thursday, March 19, 2009 : Opponents of JROTC have learned that Jill Wynns, the Pentagon's most reliable ally on the San Francisco School Board, will introduce a resolution at its March 24 board meeting, aimed at extending JROTC for another year. This is a maneuver to buy time while the pro-JROTC forces try to deal with the fact that JROTC enrollment has plummeted since the school board withdrew PE credit for the program, in accordance with recent changes in state law.

See www.NoMilitaryRecruitmentinOurSchools.org for more about the upcoming school board meeting...

Back when I was a kid, which was more than a few years ago, high school students took four years of physical education (PE), and that was that. I was flabbergasted a number of years back when San Francisco schools reduced the PE requirement to two years, apparently in line with the trend at many other California schools. I remember one particular school board member complaining that she had been embarrassed when she had to change her clothes in the locker room. Of such things policy is made.

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