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TALKING POINTS

Though there are many issues that can be raised regarding the JROTC program, we are focusing on the cost and the violations of the California Education Code. Below are some of the main issues that you can address. Here is a list of telephone numbers

Call the Board of Education Members and identify yourself as a parent, teacher, student, community member concerned about the JROTC program.
Express your concern that the JROTC program receives preferential treatment in relation to funding and class size.

The JROTC programs are listed on the web site. There are 30 high school mainly located in dense low income areas of the city. Note that there are no JROTC programs in schools west of Fairfax.
JROTC class size is between 8-15 students with an average of 12 per class (as written in the JROTC contract regarding 2 JROTC instructors for 100-150 students. Compare this to 40 plus students in academic, music, art and physical education classes. This is unfair.
The cost of JROTC to LAUSD is one half the instructors pay plus all employed benefits (which include health insurance, workers compensation, retirement and other unspecified benefits). For the past 2006-07 and 2007-8 school year, it costs LAUSD approximately 2.6 million dollars to fund the JROTC program. This was approximately 85 thousand per school and $557 per student.
JROTC costs the District more than academic classes!
We are concerned that high school students throughout the district are being involuntarily scheduled into the JROTC program. This is in violation of the California Education Code 51750 and LAUSD Policy Bulletin 2067.1 and has been going on for years.
A report done by LAUSD in 2004 entitled Evaluation of The Equity and Outcomes Associated With Military Science Participation concluded that “In senior high schools, no meaningful differences among attendance, grade point averages, or AP course enrollment were observed; however, military science students had lower A-G enrollment, retention, and credit accumulation rates”.
JROTC is costly yet ineffective and troubling in over presented in under funded schools serving low income African American and Latino youth.