JROTC Is Preying on Poor Students
A recent string of revelations about abuses by the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps presents an opportunity to rein in the military’s presence and power in public schools.
Seth Kershner is a PhD student at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a coauthor, with Scott Harding and Chuck Howlett, of the new book Breaking the War Habit: The Debate over Militarism in American Education (University of Georgia Press, 2022).
A recent string of revelations about abuses by the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps presents an opportunity to rein in the military’s presence and power in public schools.
Inside the fight against JROTC, a Pentagon program that targets working-class teenagers at public schools.