| Contact Person: Rosalie Tyler Paul | |
| Georgetown | Maine |
| Tel: 207-371-2077 | 04548 |
| Scope: | Local, Regional |
| Organizational Base: | High school based |
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Work Issues:
We are a volunteer committee working to build relationships with the guidance offices in 23 Maine high schools (to date). We are finding ways to connect with students in order to stimulate discussion among students of issues related to militarism. We also work at the state policy level both with the State Commissioner of Education (she has cooperated by sending letters to all superintendents suggesting that Opt Out be included in the Emergency Form) and now with the Attorney General's office in an effort to broaden the scope of Civil Rights Teams in Maine high schools. CR Teams were initiated to address issues of bullying in the schools. We are asking that they include discussion of where/how bullying is modeled in our culture. We are now starting to work on Middle School recruitment as the Maine National Guard takes over Project Adventure and the Stay on Track anti-drug program. These privately offered programs are now offered "free" to students in grades 6,7 and/or 8. We find very little objection among school administrators, faculty or parents to uniformed military teaching in the schools. |
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