[quote=spdrun]What about foreign-born or 1st-gen kids who may not have family or close family friends who are vets?
(I’d have probably put my grandfather’s name, who died fighting the Nazis as part of the Polish resistance.)[/quote]
I did no follow-up but the school where it happened has a mix of families who have mostly been in the country a few generations at least. Whites and Hispanics and Hispanic do military service…maybe even disproportionately now.
Last year they were giving kids military rankings based on how they were progressing with state test milestones. Of course, there was a strong socio-ecomnomic relationship. I put a stop to it .