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 High School Bans Peace Corps RecruitersJun 29 2005 by Lisa K. Buchanan
"The mission of the PTA is to defend and protect young people, and to foster good citizenship," said Bella Cossidy, whose sons, a sophomore and a senior, attend Warfield High. "We accomplish neither by encouraging them to risk their lives for two years to help modernize some remote, underdeveloped country. It's just not the American way." Desperate to bolster enlistment numbers, Peace Corps recruiters are accused of having misrepresented facts, saying that organized service can make a real difference in the lives of real people and enhance the interconnectedness of the world. In response to these allegations, the Peace Corps announced it has taken a day off recruiting to remind its representatives not to quote Margaret Mead or threaten students with warm, fuzzy hugs. Ms. Anthrope, teacher of Freedom Literature at Warfield High, echoed parents' complaints that "money spent for peace is money not spent on our children's future." However, citing free-speech issues, she argued against the PTA resolution. "Suppose they ban the Depleted Uranium Society from speaking or recruiting here? We wouldn't want that, would we?" Stu Pitt, head of the Conservative Student Union, said his group opposes Peace Corps recruitment for fiscal reasons. "We need to curb government spending. So, if our good works in Iraq are costing us $4 billion a month, does it make sense to allocate an additional $381 million a year for the Peace Corps?" Pitt added that the Peace Corps purports to address overpopulation through education, training and infrastructure support, "despite inarguable proof that warfare is a more efficient method." As to the possibility of young persons from one of the world's most affluent nations developing a sense of purpose by helping the less fortunate, Pitt said he would be "opting out of that. It's just so PC." Get DeadBrain delivered to your Inbox! Click here to sign up at our parent site. Consider the weekly and monthly editions, each of which contain all-new, laugh-out-loud office comedy you won't see on the website! Related Articles Last American MIAs from Vietnam War Discovered in the White House Jun 28 2005
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