If you’re a conservative in San Francisco….

…And you want to let the San Francisco Board of Education know how seriously displeased you are about its decision to get rid of JROTC, you can do something about it:

A group fighting to keep the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps in San Francisco high schools is beginning a campaign to take the battle to city voters in November.

Friends of JROTC, a volunteer group led by parents, will launch a petition drive Saturday that aims to qualify a ballot measure asking voters to express support for the military-sponsored program.

The school board voted in 2006 to phase out the seven JROTC programs in city high schools by this month. A separate vote in December allowed the program to continue until June 2009 while the district identified and piloted a replacement program.

The proposed ballot measure would be advisory only, meaning it couldn’t save the district’s JROTC program, but it would show school board members how the majority of San Franciscans feel about the program, said Mike Bernick, the campaign’s co-chair.

Bernick, an attorney and former director of California’s labor department, said the effort “reflects really the outpouring of support we’ve found among San Franciscans across the political spectrum.”

The group will kick off the petition drive at 9 a.m. Saturday at the Taraval Police Station community room. To qualify for the ballot, the group must submit about 7,200 signatures by July 7, Bernick said. The group has collected about 1,000 signatures already.

I’m not a San Francisco voter, but I’ll be with those people in spirit.