Yonkers – CAPT. CHE AROSEMENA oversees Army recruiting for 92 public high schools in Westchester and the Bronx. The 2001 No Child Left Behind Act guarantees him and his staff entry to public schools, which would risk losing their federal financing if they barred recruiters. But accomplishing his mission has serious challenges nonetheless.
“It’s tough,” Captain Arosemena said, adding: “If the school really doesn’t want us to have access, they will have unique ways for us not to talk to students. If it doesn’t fit into their schedule, suddenly half the year has gone by and you haven’t had an assembly.”
Yet the captain knows that if he must cede recruiting ground in Westchester’s resistant districts — like Scarsdale and Armonk, with their affluent college-oriented students — he can make up for it elsewhere.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/06/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/how-the-army-gets-what-it-wants.html?smid=pl-share