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February 16 • 2006

Home: Ypsilanti Township
Kudos: Activists Extraordinaire •

Ypsilanti

fter attending a Michigan
Peaceworks (MPW) Youth
Peace Summit in Ann Arbor
last August, Mitch and Zach
.
Goldsmith went back to school and
founded a chapter of Students Against
War (SAW) at Lincoln High School in
Ypsilanti, where the 17-year-old twins
are juniors.
The group advocates, among other
things, a peaceful environment inside
the school and also opposes•military
recruitment in public schools.
Until recently, their school had been
submitting names and addresses of its
juniors and seniors to military
recruiters, abiding by Section 9528 of.
the "No Child Left Behind Act."
But then SAW members discovered

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Representatives bill stating schools
must accept a parents' written request
to "opt" their child out of this process.
They enlisted the help of the MPW
and a lawyer from the Michigan ACLU
to get permission to distribute leaflets
sharing the information with students
and their parents.
Then Mitch, Zach and MPW staff
members met with their school dis-
trict's superintendent and Lincoln
High administrators, and the school
agreed to accept "opt out" forms and
post information about it for students
and parents to read. The boys held a
two-day "opt-out-athori," during which
130 students opted out, with more
joining in later.
In addition, SAW was responsible

