Los Angeles Schools to Stop Releasing Student Information to the Military
Los Angeles schools are joining schools in some parts of Maryland by ending their practice of providing confidential student information to military recruiters. Prior to this policy change, a list of some or all students in Grades 10-12 attending the Los Angeles schools was given the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery. They were told that this was a general screening test to help them discover whether a military career was right for them. Instead, test results and confidential student information was being turned over to military recruiters. Los Angeles Schools Need to Preserve Student Privacy Many of us have concerns about which organizations have access to our personal information and how it is being used these days. When testing is being conducted in Los Angeles schools or in other school districts, and parents are either not being told what the purpose of the testing is or what the information being collected is being used for, this is a red flag.
