{"id":5142,"date":"2005-06-23T16:37:10","date_gmt":"2005-06-23T16:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=5142"},"modified":"2005-06-23T16:37:10","modified_gmt":"2005-06-23T16:37:10","slug":"one-more-reason-to-home-educate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=5142","title":{"rendered":"ONE MORE REASON TO HOME EDUCATE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To keep the kids&#8217; private data away from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/06\/22\/AR2005062202305.html\">military recruiters<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Defense Department began working yesterday with a private marketing firm to create a database of high school students ages 16 to 18 and all college students to help the military identify potential recruits in a time of dwindling enlistment in some branches.<\/p>\n<p>The program is provoking a furor among privacy advocates. The new database will include personal information including birth dates, Social Security numbers, e-mail addresses, grade-point averages, ethnicity and what subjects the students are studying.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Remember, folks, provide the absolute legal minimum of information to any state educrats.  Use P.O. Boxes when you can.  &#8220;Forget&#8221; to include phone numbers.  And never, ever provide a SSN when not mandated by law.<\/p>\n<p>And one other thing&#8211; where the hell are the military going to get GPAs?!  It is illegal under federal law to provide student grades to anyone but the student.  And that includes GPA data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To keep the kids&#8217; private data away from military recruiters: The Defense Department began working yesterday with a private marketing firm to create a database of high school students ages 16 to 18 and all college students to help the military identify potential recruits in a time of dwindling enlistment in some branches. The program [&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":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}