. >> reporter: margaret brown says enemy north and low income students -- says especially minority and might find it tempting. >> they may not their options or may not indeed because of the economic circumstances have options. >> reporter: she wants this way out of neighborhood -- she warns this way out of the neighborhood could lead them into war. margaret used to teach in the district. now she is trying to stop her former employer from adopting junior rotc. >> there are a lot more people than i thought, it wasn't even on the agenda. >> reporter: the district board president says more than a dozen voiced concern at the last board meeting but he argued the program is worth the

. >> my name is margarete brown and i am a shipyard artist. and i must say that the first of all, my first problem is that the name hunter's point has been removed from all of the advertising for the shipyard. i understand why they maybe have done it and i don't agree with it because hunter's point is a definition or a title, that belongs to that space, long before what has happened to the hunter's point neighborhood. and it was a place where native americans lived, and it was a place where people that were fishries and there was a place where there were form farms and on and on and on and i i think that is really a negative and now to me. in this new building, i have been offered a space, that is 200 square foot smaller than the one that i have and twice as much. actually a little bit more than twice as much. and if i down sized so that i have the same, i can afford it, you know, pay the same amount of money, then i don't paint, i do three dimensional things and i do... and i do the huge baskets for my clients and i do the dyed shawls and som

. >> reporter: margaret brown says enemy north and low income students -- says especially minority and low income students might find it tempting. >> they may not their options or may not indeed because of the economic circumstances have options. >> reporter: she wants this way out of neighborhood -- she warns this way out of the neighborhood could lead them into war. margaret used to teach in the district. now she is trying to stop her former employer from adopting junior rotc. >> there are a lot more people than i thought, it wasn't even on the agenda. >> reporter: the district board president says more than a dozen voiced concern at the last board meeting but he argued the program is worth the $200,000 investment. >> because of its rigor, because of its discipline, because of its value. >> reporter: it's an ongoing controversy in the bay area. in 2001 when then oakland mayor jerry brown founded the oakland military institute, he did so despite fierce opposition. in 2008, san francisco voters had to save the junior rotc program from the chopping block. tonight many expect a packed ho