November 4 School Committee meeting: JROTC

The superintendent's report tonight is on JROTC, in response (in part) to a motion by Miss Biancheria.
We have with us the service members who are teachers for the programs at the various schools.
"to develop citizens of character to serve their nation and community"
"to instill values of citizenship, service to the United States, personal responsibility, and sense of accomplishment"
(and by the way, there's a little waving flag in the upper left hand corner of each slide)

AFJROTC has about 10% of the population at Burncoat (113 kids)
NJROTC has 122 at North
AFJROTC has 186 at South, which is about 14% of the program
Academics, plus "activities are the leadership laboratories"
"the kids run the unit..the cadets have to get the other cadets to go to this"
"over 10,000 hours of service" by North cadets last year
over $23,000 of scholarships for Burncoat kids the past few years
Flag retirement
lesson plan on the Battle of the Bulge led to lunch of vets and cadets each years
putting more of the lessons online, share them with parents at home
how to be an effective leader: leadership training group--teaches kids how to be leaders
promotion in NJROTC tied to academic (not just to JROTC courses)