{"id":85,"date":"2006-11-16T10:33:31","date_gmt":"2006-11-16T16:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/2006\/11\/16\/not-as-far-off-as-you-think\/"},"modified":"2006-11-16T10:44:37","modified_gmt":"2006-11-16T16:44:37","slug":"not-as-far-off-as-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85","title":{"rendered":"Not As Far Off As You Think"},"content":{"rendered":"

The San Francisco School Board voted 4-2 yesterday to resolve to eliminate the Junior Reserve Office Training Corps (JROTC)<\/a> program.<\/p>\n

The resolution passed says the military’s ban on openly gay soldiers violates the school district’s equal rights policy for gays. The school district and the military currently share the $1.6 million annual cost of the program. About 1,600 San Francisco students participate in JROTC at seven high schools across the district.<\/p>\n

Cadets and instructors who spoke at the meeting and rallied outside argued that the program teaches leadership, organizational skills, personal responsibility and other important values.<\/p>\n

“This is where the kids feel safe, the one place they feel safe,” said Robert Powell, a JROTC instructor. “You’re going to take that away from them?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Unmentioned in the story; the program is especially <\/em>popular in heavily-minority inner city schools, among parents who can’t afford private schools but want something <\/em>in their students’ day that instills some form of discipline, pride and self-respect (as opposed to self-esteem) among their students.<\/p>\n

To his credit, mayor Gavin Newsom criticized the resolution:<\/p>\n

Mayor Gavin Newsom called severing ties with the JROTC “a bad idea” that penalized students without having any practical effect on the Pentagon’s policy on gays in the military.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Indeed.<\/p>\n

Now, here’s the dirty little secret; the left – awash as they claim to be in concern for the well-being of minority students – hate <\/em>JROTC. There is a faction in the Saint Paul School Board and the Administration that is actively seeking to bar JROTC from St. Paul schools – not primarily because of “Don’t Ask…”, but because they just don’t like the military.<\/em><\/p>\n

I’d love to get some Democrats on the local school board on record about this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The San Francisco School Board voted 4-2 yesterday to resolve to eliminate the Junior Reserve Office Training Corps (JROTC) program. The resolution passed says the military’s ban on openly gay soldiers violates the school district’s equal rights policy for gays. The school district and the military currently share the $1.6 million annual cost of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}