Junior ROTC Under Attack At Roosevelt High

At Roosevelt High School in Boyle Heights, many students and teachers are angered that Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) programs are concentrated in low-income, primarily minority communities. A coalition has formed to end the program at the school. But some students would regret seeing the program, whose daily cadet class teaches skills that include financial planning and map reading with no obligation to join the military, abolished. Larry Mantle talks with Ted MacDonald, JROTC coordinator for LAUSD and with the Arlene Inouye, Founder of Coalition Against Militarism in Our Schools (CAMS).

At Roosevelt High School in Boyle Heights, many students and teachers are angered that Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) programs are concentrated in low-income, primarily minority communities. A coalition has formed to end the program at the school. But some students would regret seeing the program, whose daily cadet class teaches skills that include financial planning and map reading with no obligation to join the military, abolished. Larry Mantle talks with Ted MacDonald, JROTC coordinator for LAUSD and with the Arlene Inouye, Founder of Coalition Against Militarism in Our Schools (CAMS).