Subject: In my Should I finally return to the States and teach Civic

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See Original Content on OpEd News in article titled "Military Recruiting in the United States - a new book"

In my Should I finally return to the States and teach Civics, Government, Human & Civil Rights to America's Kids today? ,

I share that one of the reasons that it appeared I was blackballed in Great Bend High School (KS) in 1990-1991 was that I walked into the teacher lounge and stated frankly, "I don't like this revolving door for military recruiters."

Across the street was a national guards unit. That Autumn when I said this I had observed 5 or more recruiters walking the hallway and cafeterias of the high school looking to find students to talk to. That was October 1990--Sadam Hussain had just invaded Kuwait. National Guard units were already being sent to the Middle East for war at the time.

I did not know the principal at the school had been a marine. In contrast to my 1990 experience as a high school teacher in Great Bend, back in the 1970s in nearby Sterling High Schools, the school would not permit recruiters to go anywhere in the building except for the room labeled the counselor offices, where interested students could come on their own.

Please share more about what the physical and mental stresses that pro-peace students and teachers face on a daily basis in America in 2016.