{"id":5599,"date":"2005-10-13T17:03:17","date_gmt":"2005-10-13T17:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=5599"},"modified":"2005-10-13T17:03:17","modified_gmt":"2005-10-13T17:03:17","slug":"no-opt-outs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=5599","title":{"rendered":"NO OPT-OUTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>G-schoolers can opt out of having their personal info given to army recruiters.  Heretofore, we really haven&#8217;t needed that option.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/washington\/2005-10-11-army-recruiting_x.htm\">Now we do<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Among the main features of the Army&#8217;s master plan for reaching its 2006 recruiting goal:<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;\u2022 Put more effort into recruiting people who have begun their college careers but not yet earned a degree, on the assumption that some would be interested in taking a hiatus to try military service. Also, target those of high school age who are being home schooled \u2014 a potential market the Army has largely ignored.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How is the Army getting contact information for our kids?  Could it be from the state Ed Departments?  My own state of NC treats our registration data as a public record, available to anyone who files a FOIA request.  According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homeschoolblogger.com\/Somerschool\/31750\/\">Scott Somerville<\/a>, most other states do the same.  IMO, home educators ought to be working at the state level to protect their privacy by exempting their personal information from public records laws.  I&#8217;ve already contacted the two NC statewides, legislators, and the Division of Non-Public Education (DNPE) here.  <\/p>\n<p>Getting good legislation passed is never easy, fun, or fast.  But there are precious few things more valuable than privacy.  (via the <a href=\"http:\/\/ha-nc-legislative.blogspot.com\/2005\/10\/homeschoolers-another-potential-market.html\">HA-NC legislative blog<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:  There&#8217;s a lengthy discussion still going on over this post at the <a href=\"http:\/\/homeedmag.com\/blogs\/heos\/?p=289\">HEM blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>G-schoolers can opt out of having their personal info given to army recruiters. Heretofore, we really haven&#8217;t needed that option. Now we do: Among the main features of the Army&#8217;s master plan for reaching its 2006 recruiting goal: &#8230;\u2022 Put more effort into recruiting people who have begun their college careers but not yet earned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5599"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}