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When the San Francisco School Board voted to do away with the district’s JROTC program, program supporters (unsurprisingly, perhaps because of the military elements of JROTC) fought back.  And they won!

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Despite the fact that it is a voluntary organization, that the costs to the school system are minimal, and that the kids who join it do well in school and are exemplary citizens, San Francisco’s hostility to the JROTC knows no bounds, and the school system has done its best to destroy the organization.  One [...]

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It’s a done deal:  the JROTC is out in San Francisco and kids instead get to learn first aid.  All of the discipline, pride, unit cohesion, drilling, and athletic credit that went with JROTC have just been replaced with a first aid class. Now I’m all in favor of first aid.  I deeply admire the [...]

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In another of those hastily called School Board meetings — a tactic used to ensure that JROTC supporters will be less likely to attend the meeting — the SF School Board cut the legs off the JROTC program by denying it PE credits: San Francisco public high schools will no longer award physical education credit [...]

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Although the San Francisco School Board attempted to schedule its most recent JROTC initiative on such short notice that no one could attend (translation:  no JROTC supporters could attend), that sneaky little effort failed.  Supporters showed up and carried the day, with the School Board backing off from its plan to deny to the program [...]

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