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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Thu Jan 8, 2015, 10:43 AM Jan 2015

South Carolina Bill Requires All Public School Students To Take NRA-Approved Gun Rights Course

Legislation proposed last month by three members of the South Carolina legislature would require public school teachers in that state to spend three weeks each year extolling the virtues of the Second Amendment — as that amendment is understood by the National Rifle Association. The bill requires all South Carolina public schools to “provide instruction in the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution for at least three consecutive weeks during one grading period in each academic year.” Moreover, “the State Superintendent of Education shall adopt a curriculum developed or recommended by the National Rifle Association or its successor organization.”

Three weeks is an absolutely extraordinary amount of instruction time to devote to such a narrow subject, at least at the elementary or secondary school level, even setting aside the political nature of the material. Many high school history teachers publish their course syllabi online, and a ThinkProgress review of Advanced Placement United States History syllabi reveals that teachers typically spend far less than three weeks teaching pivotal events or major aspects of American history.

One South Carolina charter school, for example, devotes just two weeks to “The Slave System and the Coming of the Civil War” and only a week and a half to World War II in its Advanced Placement United States History course. A Maine private school devotes two weeks to “Slavery and Sectionalism” and another two weeks to “World War II and the Origins of the Cold War.” A Kentucky high school devotes only two weeks to the “Roaring 20’s, Great Depression and New Deal,” a period that thrust America into an historic crisis and transformed the nation’s view of the role of government in society.

Nevertheless, the South Carolina bill does not simply require schools to spend more time teaching students the NRA’s view of gun rights than many advanced high school courses spend teaching about subjects such as slavery or World War II; it requires this course to be taught at the elementary, middle and high school level.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/01/08/3609257/south-carolina-bill-requires-all-public-school-students-to-take-nra-approved-gun-rights-course/

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billh58

(6,641 posts)
1. More NRA brainwashing
Thu Jan 8, 2015, 10:49 AM
Jan 2015

by right-winger Teabilly "good ole boys." Basic Tea Party civil rights: guns are the political answer when votes don't go your way...

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
2. I was just moaning about public school history and since they are not taught there is a generation
Thu Jan 8, 2015, 10:54 AM
Jan 2015

Who will buy a wing nut version of the past as truth
So not only will they not learn facts, but will pushed on gun rights based on a NRA publication while in a school funded by taxpayers . Oh bet they learn taxes are bad too.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6056892

flamin lib

(14,559 posts)
3. It is hard to believe that SC would breech the separation of Church and State
Thu Jan 8, 2015, 10:56 AM
Jan 2015

with a move like this.

Wait, what? Gun love isn't a religion and the NRA isn't a denomination? Damn, coulda' fooled me . . .

DetlefK

(16,455 posts)
5. I wonder what happens when the students find out that other countries don't have a 2nd amendment.
Thu Jan 8, 2015, 11:00 AM
Jan 2015

"You mean, they don't have guns? And they are okay with that? The crime-levels must be horrible in those places! And how are they supposed to fight their own government if they don't have guns?"

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
6. The ?NRA is evil and the folks who refuse to see that are enablers of evil...how much more
Thu Jan 8, 2015, 11:12 AM
Jan 2015

authoritarian can these folks get and still say they are for "freedom"?

They are not called gun "nuts" for nothing.

Turbineguy

(38,381 posts)
8. Killing people is an important
Thu Jan 8, 2015, 11:18 AM
Jan 2015

and fun pastime. And remember kids, if you buy a gun, others will buy a gun to defend themselves from you! And then you will need to buy more guns to defend yourself from them!

jimmy the one

(2,717 posts)
11. in the closet on this
Fri Jan 9, 2015, 12:31 PM
Jan 2015
Legislation proposed last month by three members of the South Carolina legislature would require public school teachers in that state to spend three weeks each year extolling the virtues of the Second Amendment — as that amendment is understood by the National Rifle Association. The bill requires all South Carolina public schools to “provide instruction in the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution for at least three consecutive weeks during one grading period in each academic year.” Moreover, “the State Superintendent of Education shall adopt a curriculum developed or recommended by the National Rifle Association or its successor organization.”

Yuck, that is utterly disgusting. Hopefully it's just the lunatic fringe (2%) talking, & won't go.

South Carolina Bill Requires All Public School Students To Take NRA-Approved Gun Rights Course

Arg, n-doc, I know why you posted it, for exposure, but I have a hard time 'recommending' this! due the content!
Let's just say, I give you in the closet support. Cheers, ndoc.
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