JROTC: The Untold Story

JROTC was, is, and always will be, a military recruitment program. The “discipline, leadership skills, and values” that Jason and other JROTC advocates tirelessly praise are, for many, nothing more than a come-on for recruitment.

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A teacher at Washington High School here in San Francisco watches as a school security guard enters her classroom, radio in hand. The teacher and her students hear a voice come over that radio, ordering the guard to send the teacher to the Principal’s office. The security guard relays the order. The guard takes charge of the class, and the teacher heads to the office.

The Principal is waiting for her. He has received a report from one of the school’s JROTC instructors that certain teachers had allegedly encouraged students to go to an upcoming peace march.

The Principal does not tell the teacher that he got her name from the JROTC instructor. He does tell her that he has received a report that she is giving extra credit to students who attend the peace march. The teacher denies this accusation, because it is not true. She does acknowledge that there is a poster about the march in her classroom, and that she has informed her students about it.

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