Cenk Uygur
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INVESTIGATION: Schools Are FORCING Poor Students Into Junior ROTC Classes
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December 26, 2022
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Many public school students are being forced into taking mandatory junior ROTC classes. Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss on The Young Turks. Watch TYT LIVE on weekdays 68 pm ET.
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"On her first day of high school, Andreya Thomas looked over her schedule and found that she was enrolled in a class with an unfamiliar name: JROTC.
She and other freshmen at Pershing High School in Detroit soon learned they had been placed into the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps, a program funded by the U.S. military designed to teach leadership skills, discipline and civic values – and open students' eyes to the idea of a military career. In the class, students had to wear military uniforms and obey orders from an instructor who was often yelling, Thomas said, but when several of them pleaded to be allowed to drop the class, school administrators refused.
"They told us it was mandatory," Thomas said.
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