CAMS Operation Opt-Out Leafleting

Save your child from military recruiters phone calls to your home. Below are links to OptOut forms. The first two are for LAUSD in English and Spanish. The second two are generic forms that should work anywhere. Print the forms out twice, fill out and send one copy to the Counselor/Principal of your child's school. This should be done with the first week of enrollment at the start of the school year (LAUSD by October 24, 2008). Keep a copy for yourself and call the Counselor to make sure that they processed the form correctly. 2008-09 OPT OUT Dates for LAUSD (NCLB Section 9528) The signed and returned Opt Out form means that the contact information (name, address, phone number) of juniors and seniors will NOT be given to military recruiters in the fall. In LAUSD this process must be done every year. IF YOU DO NOT RETURN THE OPT OUT FORM, STUDENT'S PERSONAL INFORMATION WILL BE GIVEN TO MILITARY RECRUITERS FOR ENLISTMENT PURPOSES! Tracks B and C- letters mailed home to juniors and seniors around JULY 18, 2008 Single Track and A- letters mailed beginning SEPTEMBER 18th. OPT OUT FORMS DUE to the school through OCTOBER 24 Students and teachers ask regarding where to turn in the Opt Out forms at your school. Inform others, make signs, pass out forms. Let's raise the numbers back up this year! In addition to the letters, the information will be in the Parent Student Handbook, and the www.lausd.net web site, parent link. We will attach this form as soon as it is available. For those of you from other School Districts, ASK DISTRICT OFFICES for the Opt Out dates and process. The law gives latitude for school districts to develop their own process, but must give the option to with hold personal contact information of high school students from military recruiters. OPERATION STUDENT PRIVACY- we'll work out a date the week of Sept. 18th for a press conference and after school flyering to draw attention to your right to Opt Out. More to come! NCLB Section 9528 Requires that school districts release the names, addresses and telephone numbers of juniors and seniors to military recruiters upon request unless an Opt-Out form is signed and returned. In LAUSD the Opt-Out form must be returned to the local school by OCTOBER 27th, 2007. All others check with your school district. ASVAB The Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) is a voluntary military placement exam used as a general aptitude test for career options. IT IS A MILITARY RECRUITING TOOL and was given in 75% of LAUSD schools in 2005. Schools are guilt of violating family confidentiality by giving military recruiters access to private information gathered from students via the ASVAB testing information (including social security numbers) Military recruiters use the ASVAB to ignore the Opt-Out process. The ASVAB skirts parental rights by giving incomplete information to parents about it, and by releasing private information to military recruiters without parental consent. The only way to ensure student privacy is to use other aptitude diagnostic tools instead of the military entrance exam. It’s voluntary, don’t take the ASVAB. If you choose to take it request Option 8 that means scores will not be released to military recruiters. PENTAGON DATABASE The Pentagon has been collecting a centralized data base without Congressional authorization of over 700 pieces of information on millions of youth between 16 to 25 years of age. Act to Protect Your Privacy from Military Recruiters You may be harassed at home by military recruiters because your name, address and phone number will be given to them by your school — unless you tell your school to not give out the information. To exercise your legal right to have this information kept private, you should notify your school office as soon as possible. Some school districts may provide their own forms for this, but they must obey your request no matter how you submit it. You can write your own letter or use the one below. Use a letter or form for each individual student and keep a copy. It is not required by law, but we recommend having a parent or guardian also sign:
OptOut Forms: LAUSD form English LAUSD forma Spanish LAUSD form multilingual (Needs to be downladed from LAUSD website. See Release of Directory Information on this page. Includes English, Spanish, Armenian, Chinese, Korean, Russian, and Vietnamese) Generic form Generico forma Spanish Organizing Forms: OptOut 2008 Flyer OptOut2008 Spanish Military-Recruitment Survey for Students OptOut Campaign Information Use the free Adobe Reader to view these files. You must download the reader first. Download it here.
Here is the the enlistment form with which you sign away your constitutional rights and perhaps even your life to military recruiters. We offer a copy of it here so you can look it over in detail, something the military recruiters would rather you not do. Here is the file. Here is the full US Military School Recruitment Handbook in PDF format. This project is made possible by a grant from the Diane Middleton Foundation.

Save your child from military recruiters phone calls to your home.

Below are links to OptOut forms. The first two are for LAUSD in English and Spanish. The second two are generic forms that should work anywhere.

Print the forms out twice, fill out and send one copy to the Counselor/Principal of your child's school. This should be done with the first week of enrollment at the start of the school year (LAUSD by October 24, 2008). Keep a copy for yourself and call the Counselor to make sure that they processed the form correctly.

2008-09 OPT OUT Dates for LAUSD (NCLB Section 9528)

The signed and returned Opt Out form means that the contact information (name, address, phone number) of juniors and seniors will NOT be given to military recruiters in the fall. In LAUSD this process must be done every year. IF YOU DO NOT RETURN THE OPT OUT FORM, STUDENT'S PERSONAL INFORMATION WILL BE GIVEN TO MILITARY RECRUITERS FOR ENLISTMENT PURPOSES!

Tracks B and C- letters mailed home to juniors and seniors around JULY 18, 2008

Single Track and A- letters mailed beginning SEPTEMBER 18th.

OPT OUT FORMS DUE to the school through OCTOBER 24
Students and teachers ask regarding where to turn in the Opt Out forms at your school.
Inform others, make signs, pass out forms. Let's raise the numbers back up this year!

In addition to the letters, the information will be in the Parent Student Handbook, and the www.lausd.net web site, parent link. We will attach this form as soon as it is available.

For those of you from other School Districts, ASK DISTRICT OFFICES for the Opt Out dates and process.
The law gives latitude for school districts to develop their own process, but must give the option to with hold personal contact information of high school students from military recruiters.

OPERATION STUDENT PRIVACY- we'll work out a date the week of Sept. 18th for a press conference and after school flyering to draw attention to your right to Opt Out. More to come!

NCLB Section 9528

Requires that school districts release the names, addresses and telephone numbers of juniors and seniors to military recruiters upon request unless an Opt-Out form is signed and returned.
In LAUSD the Opt-Out form must be returned to the local school by OCTOBER 27th, 2007. All others check with your school district.

ASVAB

The Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) is a voluntary military placement exam used as a general aptitude test for career options.
IT IS A MILITARY RECRUITING TOOL and was given in 75% of LAUSD schools in 2005.
Schools are guilt of violating family confidentiality by giving military recruiters access to private information gathered from students via the ASVAB testing information (including social security numbers)
Military recruiters use the ASVAB to ignore the Opt-Out process.
The ASVAB skirts parental rights by giving incomplete information to parents about it, and by releasing private information to military recruiters without parental consent.
The only way to ensure student privacy is to use other aptitude diagnostic tools instead of the military entrance exam.
It’s voluntary, don’t take the ASVAB. If you choose to take it request Option 8 that means scores will not be released to military recruiters.

PENTAGON DATABASE

The Pentagon has been collecting a centralized data base without Congressional authorization of over 700 pieces of information on millions of youth between 16 to 25 years of age.

Act to Protect Your Privacy from Military Recruiters
You may be harassed at home by military recruiters because your name, address and phone number will be given to them by your school — unless you tell your school to not give out the information. To exercise your legal right to have this information kept private, you should notify your school office as soon as possible. Some school districts may provide their own forms for this, but they must obey your request no matter how you submit it. You can write your own letter or use the one below. Use a letter or form for each individual student and keep a copy. It is not required by law, but we recommend having a parent or guardian also sign:

OptOut Forms:

LAUSD form English

LAUSD forma Spanish

LAUSD form multilingual (Needs to be downladed from LAUSD website. See Release of Directory Information on this page. Includes English, Spanish, Armenian, Chinese, Korean, Russian, and Vietnamese)

Generic form

Generico forma Spanish

Organizing Forms:

OptOut 2008 Flyer

OptOut2008 Spanish

Military-Recruitment Survey for Students

OptOut Campaign Information

Use the free Adobe Reader to view these files. You must download the reader first.
Download it here.

Here is the the enlistment form with which you sign away your constitutional rights and perhaps even your life to military recruiters. We offer a copy of it here so you can look it over in detail, something the military recruiters would rather you not do. Here is the file.

Here is the full US Military School Recruitment Handbook in PDF format.

This project is made possible by a grant from the Diane Middleton Foundation.