Buried deep within the 670-page No Child Left Behind educational act is a provision not only requiring public secondary schools to allow military recruiters access to their facilities but forcing them to provide contact information on every registered student or face a cutoff in federal funding. ‘Recruiters are up-front about their plans to use school lists to aggressively pursue students through mailings, phone calls, and personal visits — even if parents object. “The only thing that will get us to stop contacting the family is if they call their congressman,” says Major Johannes Paraan, head U.S. Army recruiter for Vermont and northeastern New York. “Or maybe if the kid died, we’ll take them off our list.” ‘ Mother Jones