[pjw] INFO/ACTION: Portland School Board considering JROTC TUES 4/2 6 PM

[Peace and Justice Works]

Oops, it has been pointed out that April 2 is next Tuesday, not Monday... 
sorry for any confusion.

On Tue, 26 Mar 2024, Peace and Justice Works wrote:

> PJW supporters
> Our allies at the War Resisters League, which has a strong 
> counter-recruitment program aimed and diverting young people who might be 
> thinking of joining the military, has but out an alert for this coming 
> TUESDAY [Monday], April 2. At 6 PM (or 7:55 according to the agenda), 
the Portland 
> Public School Board is considering a resolution to bring the Junior Reserve 
> Officer Training Corps (JROTC) to our schools.
>
> I've got their action alert pasted in below.
>
> The agenda can be found here:
>
> https://meetings.boardbook.org/Public/Agenda/915?meeting=628670
>
> with the two supporting documents here:
> https://meetings.boardbook.org/Documents/FileViewerOrPublic/915?file=b9a6737d-74be-4256-ae22-953a54b804c4&isFromMeeting=True
> https://meetings.boardbook.org/Documents/FileViewerOrPublic/915?file=c50cb0f7-0040-4d3e-9912-8ee583bfedeb&isFromMeeting=True
>
> Clearly our society is militarized enough without bringing militarism to the 
> schools.
> dan handelman
> peace and justice works
>
> Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2024 13:50:01
> From: John Grueschow
>
> Dear Peace & Justice Community:
>
> Please mark your calendars for Tuesday evening, April 2nd.
>
> That is when the Portland School Board will likely hold a first reading of a 
> proposal to bring the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) to some 
> or all of Portland high schools.  If this proposal is allowed to go forward, 
> it would effectively undermine our successes, over the years, at dramatically 
> restricting military access to our students and cleaning up the behavior of 
> military recruiters at our schools.  Starting up JROTC would be a big setback 
> in many ways and would further militarize our public high schools.
>
> The meeting starts at 6 pm on April 2nd. at the PPS administrative building 
> (501 N Dixon St., Portland).  We will gather outside the main entrance at 
> 5:45 pm.  We will have signs, and selected members of our community will be 
> signed up to speak to the school board.  It is important that we *fill the 
> room*, so please make every effort to attend.
>
> John Grueschow
> War Resisters League--Portland
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