Outcry over standardized test! or Can't anybody Read anymore?

I got the following from CommonDreams.org. In Anne Arundel county, Maryland, it seems that there are some folks that are either illiterate or just plain stupid. There is heated debate going on right now about the ASVAB test being offered during normal class time. Check this out from the article:

A few days before her holiday break, South River High School junior Emily Hawse took a three-hour standardized test offered by military officials that suggests possible careers for students while helping to identify promising recruits.

Hawse, 16, of Davidsonville said she did not realize until the day of the exam that it had a military link. She said students were told not to go to the Edgewater school that morning if they didn't want to take the test, called the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery.

"We couldn't go to class if we wanted to," said Hawse, who is undecided about her future but said it doesn't include the military.

Now I'm sorry, but that is just plain ridiculous. Hell, the name of the damned thing is Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery. What part don't these people get about Armed Services? What is being taught at these schools that parents and students alike just don't get it?

They say military recruiters use the test to identify students with skills that would be useful in the armed forces.

Nuh uh!! Get out! You mean that if I were to take that test, a Military Recruiter might tell me what jobs in the military I'd be suited for? Would that be any different than saying:

They say college recruiters use the (SAT, ACT, PSAT) test to identify academic skills useful for admission to any particular college.

The long and the short of it is this: People are opposed to Bush's "War in Iraq™", and want any way to make it seem that a draft is pending. I am not one of those people even though I oppose this war. Personally, I also took the ASVAB in high school. DURING CLASS TIME TOO! It was offered the same way the SAT, ACT, and other standardized tests were. Some people just need to use some Common Sense.