Difficulties Limiting Recruiters in Santa Barbara Schools—Even with a policy!

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The military has an enormous budget for recruiting and pressuring school districts that limit recruiter visits….Vigilance is necessary. During the school year 2017-18 Truth in Recruitment (TIR) leadership and staff met with Santa Barbara Unified School District (SBUSD) school board members Ismael Ulloa, Wendi Sims-Mooten and Jackie Reid as well as Assistant Superintendent Shawn Carey on four separate occasions. We discussed implementation of the Exhibit 5125.1 Recruiting Activities in the Santa Barbara Unified School District and the continued problem of policy violations.

Two issues took a lot of back and forth with the district to work out — the Opt Out form for release of directory information, and recruiters’ efforts to solicit contact information directly from students:

 

2017 online registration that combined College/Military in a single opt out:

Screen shot SBUSD 2017-18

This year’s, 2018, online registration with Colleges and Military ‘uncoupled’:

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With the district’s support, TIR parent, students and staff will have annual meetings with all of the SBUSD principals to engage them in implementing the policy and making their staff aware of the recruiter guidelines. We also plan to continue meeting with the school board members and district administration. For our goal of building leadership, we will be working with Parent, Teacher and Student Associations, Engl  ish Learner Advisory Committees (ELACs), and student clubs.    

Source: https://truthinrecruitment.org/2018/07/01/difficulties-limiting-recruiters-in-santa-barbara-schools-even-with-a-policy/

 

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