Opting to keep your child's personal information away from military recruiters now shuts them out of any recognition; Duval County schools are changing policy.

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Duval County parents who want to keep their children from military recruiters face an all-or-nothing decision. They can either approve the release of personal information to recruiters or give up all public recognition including being pictured in the yearbook and listed in sports programs and the honor roll.

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Duval County notifies parents at the beginning of the school year about its policy for giving out personal information. Parents have three options. They can approve the release of student information, restrict it to the military and colleges and universities only or they can prohibit the release of any personal information whatsoever.

But the last option has meant students would also be kept out of the yearbook, sports programs and listings of honors and awards.
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Duval County Florida is 26.5% black, wereas the rest of Florida in 13.5% and if you remember, Duval County was also the home of one of the largest election fraud actions committed in the last century. According to a media study in the 2000 Presidential election, only 3% of the 111,261 overvotes in Florida had markings that could have been interpreted as a legal vote. According to Anthony Salvado, a political scientist at the University of California, Irvine, who acted as a consultant on the media recount, most of the errors were caused by ballot design, ballot wording, and efforts by voters to choose both a president and a vice-president.

For example, 21,188 of the Florida overvotes, or nearly one-fifth of the total, originated from Duval County, where the presidential race was split across two pages. Voters were instructed to "vote every page". Half of the overvotes in Duval County had one presidential candidate marked on each page, making their vote illegal under Florida law. Salvado says that this error alone cost Gore the election.

The Corpus Christi TX ISD may have a similar policy. The standard form included with the student handbook states that opting out your student for military recruiters also removes their names from the student directory and any sports programs. It did not specifically state students' names would be removed from the yearbook, graduation programs, or the honor roll, but it sounds quite similar.