Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 2:04 pm
Amazingly, I guess I was indeed lucky in that respect, as in our school (in New Mexico, early '70's), the week before school let out for Christmas holiday, teachers or other adults taught classes in their hobbies or interests. In seventh grade I took the NM Hunters Safety course (along with other neat courses like fly tying and gemstone cutting/polishing).nitrogen wrote:I wish they'd teach this stuff in school. (Imagine that)
The class was a blast, was taught by a Game Warden, and included in addition to the standard stuff and basic emergency medical techniques, going out to a range one afternoon for target practice with a .22 rifle. A lot of kids took the class that had never even held a gun before, just because they were curious and had heard that they would get a chance to shoot one. Personally, I would MUCH rather have such a choice be an option for our nation's kids than to be repressed to the point where the only way they can satisfy their curiousity is when they "happen upon one someplace," and are usually unsupervised at that time as well.
PS - At least YOU are not an ANTI now, so there's one bright light I see!
