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Cadets, instructors and parents urge board to preserve Air Force JROTC program
Summary
Dozens of cadets, instructors and parents told the Sioux City Community School District board on March 24 that the Air Force Junior ROTC program provides leadership, training and opportunities; speakers urged the board to resolve scheduling, transportation and instructor-waiver issues rather than end the program.
Dozens of cadets, parents and instructors addressed the Sioux City Community School District board on March 24 to ask that the district retain its Air Force Junior ROTC (AFJROTC) program and to press district and Air Force headquarters to resolve scheduling, recruitment and staffing issues.
Speakers described the program as a leadership and character-building course that gives students vocational opportunities, travel, community-service experience and scholarships. Chief Master Sergeant Catherine Roby, an AFJROTC instructor who said she has 30 years of active-duty experience and 15 years instructing, described staff workload and said the Air Force pays 50% of the minimum instructor pay under the title 10 memorandum of agreement.
“We serve two chains of responsibility,” Roby told the board, noting the instructor role includes nonteaching duties such as uniform inventories, event planning and…
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