Welcome to Washington Truth in Recruiting's website.  

Our geographic area is the State of Washington.   It happens that most of us are parents of high school age students, or older citizens with grown up children.

We oppose military recruiting in high schools.  On this website (and its links) you will see exactly why we oppose it.  Schools are for education, for raising healthy hearts and minds and bodies.  Most of the students are underaged minors, and can't join the military anyway.

The activities of recruiters are essentially proselytizing and grooming teenagers to join when they're older.  As outside agencies, they're very hard to supervise, not bound by teachers' or counselors' rules or ethics, and the things they say to the students are completely outside the checks and balances of Washington's curriculum process.

In summary, we have a problem with military recruiters, soliciting underaged minors or in high schools: 

• The problem that recruiters' propositions are untruthful.
• The problem that many students lack judgment or capacity to consent to kill or to risk being killed.
• The problem of recruiters' improprieties.
• The problem of crimes such as kidnappings, rape and assault by recruiters.

We also have a problem with school employees who facilitate recruiters' activities as an expression of their personal political beliefs outside the educational mission, and in violation of their ethics as counselors, teachers or administrators.

So we want recruiters out.   If we can't get them out, we want schools to exercise prudent oversight, including limits on the frequency and locations of recruiting in the schools.