May 24 2006
San Francisco mulls JROTC ban
UPDATE: The ban is a done deal. A new blog about this will be posted tonight.
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Since they cannot ban military recruiters, San Francisco instead plans to punish the students instead.
This could ruin the chances of many students to gain an early promotion upon enlistment. Enlistees who have JROTC training may be eligible to get an immediate promotion to E2 or E3 depending on the number of years they participated.
San Francisco continues its policy of tossing out the baby with the bathwater.
S.F. School Board May End JROTC Program
The San Francisco Board of Education is considering expelling the Junior ROTC program from the city’s high schools because of the Pentagon’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy on gays.
A resolution introduced Tuesday would end the city’s relationship with JROTC by the 2007-2008 academic year. It argues that the military’s ban on openly gay soldiers violates the district’s equal rights policy for gays.
“If the military said, ‘You can’t be openly Jewish or you can’t be openly Catholic,’ I don’t think we would have stood for it,” said Mark Sanchez, the measure’s author and the board’s only gay member.
Some 1,625 students participate in Junior ROTC at seven San Francisco public high schools.
Under the proposal, which calls the military policy on gays a “state-sanctioned act of homophobia,” a school board committee would develop a program with similar physical fitness aims, but without military ties.
Lt. Cmdr. Joe Carpenter, a Pentagon spokesman, said he didn’t know of any school district that has barred JROTC from its campuses.
The resolution will come up for a final vote next month.
Why don’t they just post a sign saying "Military go home". The DADT policy is just the latest excuse in their anti war anti military agenda.
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i was in JROTC for four years. it undoubtedly helped me get ahead of my peers in the military, and helped improve my leadership skills. to deny future soldiers (or any other future leaders for that matter) this opportunity is outright unfair.
the ‘don’t ask, don’t tell policy’ is a MILITARY policy, and is in no way enforced in JROTC. i personally knew many students in JROTC who were openly gay. not only to students, but the instructors as well. they were in no way excluded, banned, given unequal opportunity, not allowed in, expelled, etc, etc etc, in the course.
so to ban the class from all schools in the district because of this policy is useless and unfair. and to say that it violates any equal opportunity policy is ignorant. i think they should seriously reconsider their decision to ban JROTC.
I’ve lived in California all my life, even lived is SF for awhile. Actions like this continue to make me question why I live a blindly ignorant liberal state in the first place. I myself am in the military, and I take this as a slap in the face. Coupled with the multitude of other anti-military actions\statements coming from my home state, I get the distinct impression that the majority of our citizens share the views of Sen Kerry. I personally have nothing against homosexuals or gay marriage, don’t think I could care any less in fact, but when any organization, be it gays, Christians, etc, feels the need to metaphorically get in my face because my military service is somehow discrimination against them, then it’s time to re-assess why I signed on the dotted line. Be anti-war all you want, but the military is here to do a job, and we don’t dictate policy.
This is a typical wacko leftist idea here. When the Islamofascists blow up the Golden Gate Bridge and San Franfreako NEEDS the military to save their red diapered butts, I hope our fighting forces remember SF’s attitude towards the military. Perhpas they’ll look back and think “Gee, what a stupid idea that was.” I hope this isn’t an indication of what Her Highness Nancy Pelosi has up her sleeve for the rest of the country.
JROTC was my ticket out of the Navajo Indian Reservation, where unemployment runs about 50%. I was homeless and almost didn’t graduate high school. If it hadn’t been for JROTC, I most assuredly would either be dead or in prison. My JROTC instructor and his wife took me into their home, fed and clothed me, and helped me to enlist in the Marine Corps, where I served for five years on active duty, earned the GI Bill, was honorably discharged, and earned both a B.S and a J.D. (Vanderbilt Law School).Today I am an Assistant District Attorney, and, just like in the Marine Corps, I am once again making important decisions for the benefit of society, including benefit to the social leftists who are so bigoted, ignorant, hateful, spiteful, and anti-American that they deny children the opportunity to be anything that does not conform to their narrow-minded world-view.They’d probably prefer homeless children to citizens that value and honor civil obligations. What a bunch of disgusting pukes. . .
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I am a current JROTC student and I believe that these people who are banning the JROTC program are ignorant and don’t know anything about the program. You will never know how much JROTC has helped me for the past three years that I have been a part of you. No one would know the experiences and memories I have from this program unless they’ve been through it. JROTC isn’t just a class.. the cadets of JROTC are all close and all great friends because we spend so much time together. I think JROTC is an asset to those who want to be helped with leadership, making friends, and finding a place where they fit into society. To strip students from the option of being a JROTC cadet is not the way to answer anti-war or people who discriminate gays, lesbians, or bisexuals. JROTC merely provides students with a leadership education and helping students better themselves in those ways. If you want to protest the war or the “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy don’t do that with the schools. We as students can do nothing about this seeing as a majority of us are not of voting age. All you’re doing is keeping students from having a class that “motivate[s] young people to be better citizens.” JROTC is a class like no other and should not be banned. It does not encourage us to pursue military careers.
Thanks for speaking out.
I take some small comfort knowing that even many of the liberals who have protested San Francisco deteriorating reputation have clearly spoken out agaisnt the ban.
I still maintain hope that cooler heads will prevail.