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14 Responses to “Military Education Requirements”
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I’m a cyber student who’s been dealing with this whole fiasco for months. Any word on when the change will go into effect? I passed my ASVAB close to a month ago and because I go to cyber school and have a tier 2 status my test has to be “reevaluated” by an education specialist. I’d love to serve my country and make a carreer out of the military but i’m at a stand still, waiting for the word to get my physical and meet a job recruiter to enlist…
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My son has attended a private high school for 3 years and plans to enlist in the Navy when he completed his high school education. As he heads into his senior year of high school he is considering switching over to an online school (in his home state of Ohio). From what I’ve read in a separate article ( http://www.navycs.com/blogs/2012/06/27/new-education-requirements ) it sounds as though a diploma received through an online school would be considered Tier I as long has he scores a 50 or higher on the AFQT. Also, if he’s considering focusing on an IT related career is there anything in particular he should/can do to get that training in the Navy? Thanks for your time.
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Great information – thank you!
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My son has a GED, he was asked to complete 15 hrs of college of which he did. When he got down to his weight requirement, and was ready to take his ASVAB test he was told that he would have to take 15 more hrs of college, or go to 6 months of job corp. What will stop them from denying him entry if he completes these requirements this time.
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NCCM,
I find this Navy education stuff to be hilarious. I graduated from Choices alternative school in Clovis,NM (this school receives the same diploma as any other student who graduates Clovis High) in the state of NJ,they are considering it a GED, while in Clovis individuals are joining all branches of the service from this school on Tier 1 status and they also do not have to score a 50 or better on the ASVAB. So, my question is, shouldn’t it be recognized the same all around? How are they getting away with this kind of stuff?
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The Navy is obviously circumventing the intention of the law change, which stated that all high school diplomas are to be have equal status. By requiring cyber or alternative diploma holders to score higher on the ASVAB than traditional diploma holders, the Navy is simply returning these graduates to Tier II status – that of a second-class citizen.
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I am communications coordinator for a nonprofit that provides curriculum and management to cyber charter schools. On Dec. 6 2012 I received a call from a father whose son is a senior in the Pennsylvania Leadership Cyber Charter School (not one of my company’s clients). They reside in SW Pa. He said his son wanted to enlist in military service, but a Marine Corps recruiter in Indiana, Pa., informed them that a graduate with a cyber charter school diploma would have to score 50 or better on the ASVAB test to enlist, while a graduate of a traditional high school only has to score 35 or better. He also said he was told that a cyber charter graduate would have to score 65 to be considered for the Air Force, also a higher score than a traditional diploma holder. We traded emails and he provided me with the name of the recruiter. I advised him to contact his Congressman and ask for his help. I have heard nothing further from them.
Good morning!
President Obama on Dec. 31, 2011, signed HB1540, the Defense Authorization Act of 2012.
Contained on page 196 in Sec. 152 of that legislation is a policy change to make all secondary school diplomas, including cyber charter school diplomas, equal “for the purposes of recruitment and enlistment in the Armed Forces…”
Please revise your information to reflect this long-overdue change.
Thank you.
Fred Miller
Communications Coordinator, Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School
724.777.5918