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Junior ROTC - The Army's Service
to America
Junior ROTC is an elective
high school course taught by military personnel at selected private
and public high schools in the United States and its territories. It
is also taught abroad though the Department of Defense Dependents
School System, which primarily serves the dependents of military
personnel stationed overseas.
The JROTC Curriculum
The curriculum, taught by
retired military professionals, encompasses a broad spectrum of
subjects, including:
Junior ROTC awards
academic grades, but its true measures of success are the young
people it motivates to stay in school and graduate. It also develops
the personal confidence and pride in self to avoid drugs and other
negative peer pressures, and attain life skills that enhance success
after graduation.
Established by Congress in
1916, Army Junior ROTC has demonstrated over the decades that it
works! Junior ROTC Cadets generally graduate from high school at a
higher rate than the school as a whole, and principals, parents, and
former cadets consistently endorse the positive impact that Junior
ROTC has had on the school, the community and the cadets themselves
Motivate and Develop
Young People
To motivate and develop
young people is the goal of Junior ROTC. To accomplish this goal,
it combines classroom instruction and extracurricular activities
oriented on attaining an awareness of the rights, responsibilities,
and privileges of citizenship; developing the student's (Cadet's)
sense of personal responsibility; building life skills; and
providing leadership opportunities.
What Junior ROTC is not
...
Cadets are organized into
units along military lines and are taught by retired military
personnel, but Junior ROTC does not recruit students for military
service. Instead, its focus is on developing young people and
orienting them positively in preparation for whatever role in life
they might choose. It is in this sense that Junior ROTC is part of
the Army's service to the nation. |
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