Newton North High School
Newton, Massachusetts9th grade class: 0% opting out
10th grade class: 0% opting out
11th grade class: 0% opting out
12th grade class: 0% opting out
395 total students have opted out. This represents 19% of the school.
574 in Grade 12
503 in Grade 11
517 in Grade 10
474 in Grade 9
Newton North High School information was incomplete, stating they were unable to provide opt out information by grade level. This is confusing because Newton South H.S. was able to provide the requested information.
Newton North H.S. and Newton South H.S. significantly hinder students and parents from excercizing their ability to opt out by co-mingling a military opt-out option within a blanket “third-party opt out” option. In failing to provide a separate and stand-alone military recruitment opt-out, Newton high schools forces students to release their private information to military recruiters if they want to have their contact information released to the prospective colleges and universities that no doubt actively seek out Newton students. This is in no way required.
The Solomon Amendment, which since 1998 has forced colleges and universities to release private student information to military recruiters has forced higher learning institutions to follow co-mingled “third party” opt-out policies, but NCLB does not require this, and Newton high schools are the only area schools so far found to be doing this.