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Schools in America apparently have their own army recruiter (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago (4 children)

how did SSG CarbonizedMiddleEasternToddler even get this kid's number? Like, are schools colluding with recruiters to just ship underperforming kids off to die?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (2 children)

My college sold me out. (Or got hacked or something).

They misspelled my middle name and suddenly, I got bank offers and all sorts of weird shit with that misspelling. I'm actually thankful they misspelled it because it helped me pinpoint my shitty college as the culprit.

I won't be surprised high schools do it too. A little "oops I didn't know" deniability and "fuck those kids" adult mentality.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

My college sold me out.

I went to a state school in the early 90s. Taking a specific sequence of physics classes was the cue for Navy nuke tech recruiters. And they were aggressive. Turns out someone in the registrar's office would search for students with that class sequence and sell the info to Navy recruiters. The person got fired, and there was a bunch of pearl-clutching. And yet military recruiters are still such a fixture of college campuses.

[–] restingboredface 9 points 6 months ago

Yeah I read recently that selling student data is a pretty common practice for colleges. It's good income for them, and students aren't able to track it easily so they don't make a fuss.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago (1 children)

My child's high school sent a letter home asking for permission to share his information and transcripts with military recruiters.

[–] Grilipper54 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Highschools ask for the students cellphone numbers? I'm out of touch, I graduated before everybody had a cellphone. What do they need the students numbers for?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

The school published a book of students and parents at my school, with addresses and phone numbers for both. Privacy has been shit upon for years longer than you'd imagine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I believe this particular communication is through Instagram messages.