English-language resources

Using Equal Access to Counter Militarism in High Schools

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Report on Project YANO’s efforts to gain access to schools in San Diego County from 1984 to 1995 (updated 7/06). Discusses outreach strategies, legal basis for equal access, lessons learned by activists. Key correspondence with school districts is included in appendix. Very useful for getting a school outreach program started.

Print size: 8½ x 11
Pages: 48, offset for hole punch

On Conscientious Objections and Guidance Responsibilities/Student Questionnaire

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Explains conscientious objection and reasons why school guidance offices should provide students with CO information; questionnaire to help students explore whether their beliefs might conflict with enlisting or being drafted.

Print size: 8½ x 11 (double-sided)

You Expected Union Solidarity? Not from JROTC Teachers!

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A flier distributed to San Diego teacher union members during a successful strike in 1996. While almost all other teachers respected the picket lines, all 21 of the district's JROTC instructors crossed them. Note that JROTC textbook quotes on the flier are from books that have since been revised and may not contain the same text.

Print Size: 8½ x 11

2020 JROTC Textbook Review Report

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The military-sponsored Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps program teaches its lessons to over 550,000 students in classrooms at approximately 3,400 high schools around the country (“Geographic and Demographic Representativeness of Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps,” Rand Corporation, 2017).

Guide to Removing Marksmanship Training from High Schools

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This Guide contains information on steps that can be taken to remove JROTC shooting ranges and marksmanship training from high schools. The content is based on decades of research and extensive experience organizing around the JROTC issue, including a campaign that succeeded in a highly militarized community. Samples of materials used in that campaign are at the end of the Guide.