ASVAB Test. Have you been scammed yet?

[Du5t1n 57]

I originally ranted this in this post (click)

It is illegal for public schools to require you to take the ASVAB as it is for military recruitment ONLY, though they will tell you otherwise.

You may be told you are simply taking a test to help you with career placement. Unfortunately they will not tell you that this is career placement in the military and this is a military test for recruitment. They just call it this and give career information so they can sneak it into schools where they otherwise could not recruit in this manner.

UPDATE: In 2008 a law passed in combination with the All children left behind Act allowing the ASVAB to bypass public schools privacy laws in at least 38 states unless the parent opts the student out and require the student to attend testing. Some schools & states can legally force you to take this military exam unless your parents tell them to opt you out. HOWEVER, they cannot force you to sign the privacy agreement (you are legally allowed to opt out of signing this which prevents them from legally viewing your scores) or provide your social security number on the form.

I RECOMMEND YOU ALL leave your social security number blank and don't sign the privacy waiver unless you are sure you want to join the military. If you take it, be prepared to get spammed with military recruiters. I got scammed into taking it and got constant harassment from recruiters even after constantly telling them to stop calling. I finally got rid of them by lying to them that I'm 350 pounds and have scoliosis. They stopped calling then.

If you love reading about shady stuff like this a google search will land you on tons of articles about this scam and the shady tactics schools and the military have used to sneak it in.

ASVAB FAQ from Peaceful Vocations website

Articles about teens revolting against the ASVAB test. Go them!

With MySpace.com bulletins and a handful of homemade flyers, two teens have struck a blow against the American Warfare State, Lindale, Georgia Division.

On a Friday afternoon the 17th of November, 17-year-old high school seniors Robert Day and Samuel Parker decided to act after Day overheard some teachers at Pepperell High School saying that first thing Monday morning the school's juniors would be made to take the ASVAB military aptitude test.

Often administered under the guise of a career aptitude test, the ASVAB's purpose is to better equip the State to prey on young people tricked or pressured into taking the test. According to Debbie Hopper of Mothers Against the Draft, it is often given under the pretext of being a "career placement" test. (In some cases it has in fact been used that way, no doubt in an attempt to legitimize what many Americans regard as not legitimate: the use of government schools as military recruiting grounds.)

The school board answered a concerned email from Parker's mother with a suggestion that the test is not mandatory but "customary." Sane Americans might ask, "Where, in Prussia?"

As a senior, he would not be made to take the test, but Day confronted the high school principal, Phil Ray, in defense of students younger than himself, and was told that the test was mandated by federal law. Day says he already believed that to be false, since he remembered the test being given only to the kids actually trying to join the military the year before. Regardless, the principal dismissed his objections. The juniors who were to be tested for their military "aptitude" were not to be told before the weekend.

Principal Ray did not return repeated calls to his office.

Not easily deterred, Day and Parker decided they would do what they could to "warn" the juniors themselves. They talked to a few kids at the end of school Friday afternoon, and over the weekend sent out more than 20 messages to MySpace bulletin boards discouraging cooperation. Arriving early Monday morning, Day and Parker picked out spots soon to be populated with kids waiting for the bell to ring, and with the help of some others who quickly volunteered, rapidly distributed their 200 homemade fliers to some and also spoke to many others, encouraging all to refuse to report to the cafeteria or to sabotage the test

Edited 27 May 2009 by Dustin (see edit history)

[ZuZu 10]

I wonder why they are looking for new, young soldiers?

[Otis McNutt 395]

The miliraty teaches skills that can be used in life. Also they can help pay for school under the GI Bill. My dad used the GI Bill and went to college, but it didn't stick with him so he left. Military Service is one of the most noble things a person can do, sacrificing themselves for something greater than them. But everyone has limits the whole Stoploss thing irks me, they put themselves on the line, they should go home when they were meant to.