JROTC Is Preying on Poor Students
A recent string of revelations about abuses by the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps presents an opportunity to rein in the military’s presence and power in public schools.
2 Articles by: Seth Kershner
Seth Kershner is a PhD candidate in the history department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is coauthor of Breaking the War Habit: The Debate over Militarism in American Education, and Counter-Recruitment and the Campaign to Demilitarize Public Schools. His work has also appeared in Rethinking Schools, The Global Sixties, and In These Times.
Dismantling the School-to-Soldier Pipeline
Inside the fight against JROTC, a Pentagon program that targets working-class teenagers at public schools.