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Nov 5, 2006 5:48 pm US/Pacific

S.F. May Cut Military Program From High Schools

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ― It looks like the San Francisco school board is going to give the boot to the high school version of the military funded R-O-T-C program that often causes uproars on liberal college campuses.

A majority of school board members say they want to end the city's 90-year relationship with the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps.

They think the armed forces and the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" don't belong in public schools.

Seven San Francisco high schools currently offer the J-R-O-T-C program.

The program costs one and a half million dollars per year and the military picks up more than a third of the tab.

If the school board cancels the program, the district says it could hire nine physical education teachers to replace the 15 retired military officers who run the program.

A vote on the issue is scheduled fro November 14.

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