Mandatory military instruction affects Black and Latino high school students most frequently, report says
When high school student Trevor Reed was automatically enrolled in a Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps class in 2020, both he and his mother objected. “We don’t have to look far outside of our family to see the effect that the military has, especially when you have to go off to war. And so that’s something my son never really wanted to do,” Tineeka Reed told CNN.
program is a voluntary elective.” A recent New York Times investigation found that requiring students to enroll in and at least 75% of participation by a single grade happening in dozens of schools in multiple states, affecting thousands of students. The information The Times acquired from more than a couple hundred open records requests revealed the vast majority of schools affected are predominantly attended by students of color and kids who live in households with low incomes.
enrollment practices in Chicago at the same time as Reed, the mother from Chicago. The 33-year-old activist said as a student, he got a call to join as an accepted substitute to physical education, a class CPS requires to graduate. The report said, “Some principals conceded that
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