Does anyone know
If there's a way for my teens to opt out of receiving military recruitment mail?
1. There's no FUCKING way they are ever joining the military.
2. It's a waste of paper.
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and i also think it's too late now, if the school already gave their address to the military, but i think where you opt out is at the school.
it's a big fight, military recruitment of teenagers. lots of parents want nothing to do with it.
maybe they can make something out of it all. papier maiche a dove or something.
can you write "return to sender" on all of it and have it sent right back, unopened?
i took that test in high school administered by the military just to get out of class (i think it was during math class) despite my already established pacifist ways. turns out i would have been a great commanding officer so instead of the usual phone calls, these military people started stalking me. visiting my house at dinner time, coming to my work. my parents had to complain to the school board because the principal of my school was a jackass and in league with the recruiters. it was ridiculous then and even in retrospect it pisses me off. just be firm and go higher up in the school if the first channels don't work. good luck.
have been fighting military recruitment since forever. what i do know is that they get the names and addresses of kids from the schools. did you know they are recruiting in middle schools now? they come in with games and flatter kids into thinking they'd be awesome pilots and shit.
since L Dawg left school (good for her), so they probably have her on a roster of dropouts.
I think return to sender is a good option. Maybe call the recruiting agency that send it and have his name taken off the list? Is that possible?
My son, now 17.5 years, has threatened to join, but has never once recieved a bit of paper in the mail suggesting he should. We live in Canada. Kids aren't recruited, not in the mail, not at school. They have to look for it if they want to.
My kid stopped being 'interested' when I stopped threatening to disown him. 'Sure good idea.' I finally said, and that was the end of story, end of his interest. Besides, he could never part with his long mane for military service.
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Here you opt out at the high school. Mabe if she's not attending there you can ask for the address and get her off the lists?
We have to be informed at the beginning of every school year that the school WILL be giving our kid's names to the recruiters, and we must opt out every year.
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the letters are coming for L-Dawg, who technically dropped out of high school, then home schooled herself for a year, then graduated high school two years early (she took a test to get a diploma) and is now in her fourth semester of college. So, I don't know whom I should talk to about this. Isn't there an equivalent of the national do not call registry--like a do not recruit registry? Maybe the Quakers know.