CAMS Adopt-A-School Project
What a concept! Just imagine if you as a taxpayer, a parent, a peace activist, or some other type of stakeholder could actually have a say in addressing the increasing militarization of our schools and young people!
Well you can!
Use the PDF files below to assemble your own Adopt-A-School program that we have initiated at 35 LAUSD high schools! Your neighborhood high school deserves your attention. The gaping hungry maw of the military death machine has ransacked our national treasury, frittered away our taxes to corporate welfare death merchants like Lockheed-Martin, and trapped our youth in a no-win game that leads to the military or prison, and alienates the whole planet. Is this right? Is this the America that we all grew up with? The America that was (is it still?) a vision for hope and an end to poverty, racism and war?
To quote Allen Ginsburg:
"Poor dead flower? when did you forget you were a
flower? when did you look at your skin and
decide you were an impotent dirty old locomotive?
the ghost of a locomotive? the specter and
shade of a once powerful mad American locomotive?"
--Sunflower Sutra
What is Adopt-A-School?
The below files were created and assembled by Arlene Inouye
Operation Student Privacy 2006 and Adopt A School fact sheet.
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CAMS ADOPT-A-SCHOOL PROJECT GUIDEBOOK:
Demilitarizing Schools and Presenting Alternatives
Cover page
Page One
Introduction
Adopt-A-Schools 2008 (Updated)
How To Get Started
Roles and Responsibilities (Updated)
Profile of LAUSD Policies (Updated)
People Skills and Difficult Questions
Legal Issues
JROTC (Updated)
LAUSD ASVAB Information
ASVAB Info Sheet
ASVAB in LAUSD
Researching ASVAB
LAUSD and Military Recruiters
LAUSD and Opt-Out
Frequently Asked Questions
Strategies
Database Forms
Militarism in Schools Rating Worksheet
Military in Schools Policy Violation Checklist
Pentagon Database on Students
School Strategies Section:
Table of contents
Tabling (Updated)
Classroom Presentations
Student Privacy and NCLB
Addicted to War
Arlingtonwest Documentary curriculum
Artist Involvement
Alternatives to the Military Booklet
Working with parents
Peace Vigil- I Will Not Kill (Updated)
Career Fairs (Updated)
Arlingtonwest Service Learner Project
Healing Conferences
Strategies in the Schools (New)
Limiting Military Recruitment at the local School
Limiting Military Recruitment at the district level
Working with Union Representatives
Fashion Runway Extravaganza (New)
Final Survey
Resources:
Strategies on PTSD (New)
Violence against men and women (New)
If you would like to be a part of this exciting new CAMS project contact CAMS.
