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Thousands of Students Say No To Recruiters in Boston

HeadlineNov 14, 2005

The Boston Globe is reporting that more than 5,000 high school students in five of Massachusetts’ largest school districts have removed their names from military recruitment lists. In Boston, about 3,700 students, or 19 percent of those enrolled in the city’s high schools, have removed their names from recruiting lists. At Cambridge Rindge and Latin School more than half the student body, ordered the school system not to give their names to the military this year.

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