REPORT TITLE:
JROTC; Waiakea High School


DESCRIPTION:
Appropriates $50,000 to the DOE for the establishment of a Junior
Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) program at Waiakea high
school.  (HB1783 HD1)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES                H.B. NO.           H.D. 1
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2000                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO THE JUNIOR RESERVE OFFICERS' TRAINING CORPS.



BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  The legislature finds that Congress established
 
 2 the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) program in
 
 3 1916 with the broad mandate to develop good citizenship and
 
 4 responsibility in young people.  JROTC programs, which run
 
 5 through the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps, are taught
 
 6 as elective courses at more than 3,000 high schools nationwide.
 
 7 Some 388,000 uniformed students will take part in JROTC programs
 
 8 during the 1999-2000 school year.  JROTC courses are led by
 
 9 active-duty and retired military personnel and teach good
 
10 citizenship, personal responsibility, and service to country.
 
11 Unlike college-level ROTC programs, junior ROTC programs do not
 
12 obligate participating students to join the military.
 
13      A recent study by the Center for Strategic and International
 
14 Studies--a private, nonpartisan policy-research institute--found
 
15 that JROTC programs strengthen our youth, our communities, and
 
16 our nation by nurturing individualism in the service of a common
 
17 cause.  JROTC programs build self-discipline, teamwork,
 
18 motivation, and confidence in young people, which decreases
 

 
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 1 school-related disciplinary problems for many participating
 
 2 students.  JROTC programs do not promote militaristic anti-
 
 3 individualism.
 
 4      While hyped-up demonstration projects and pilot programs
 
 5 touting youth development come and go all too regularly, the
 
 6 oldest and largest time-tested public enterprise for youth
 
 7 development is still the JROTC program.
 
 8      SECTION 2.  There is appropriated out of the general
 
 9 revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $50,000 or so much
 
10 thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2000-2001 for the
 
11 establishment of a Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps
 
12 program at Waiakea high school.
 
13      SECTION 3.  The sum appropriated shall be expended by the
 
14 department of education for the purposes of this Act.
 
15      SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2000.