A seventh grade required reading assignment at a Springfield, Ill middle school actually states that Americans must register their firearms in order to have a Second Amendment right.
From the workbook: “This amendment states that people have the right to certain weapons, providing that they register them and they have not been in prison.
Provided to the Illinois Gun Owners Rights Facebook page by a local parent, the required reading makes several blatantly false statements regarding the right to gun ownership.
“This amendment states that people have the right to certain weapons, providing that they register them and they have not been in prison,” the workbook states.
Along with an open ended statement regarding the right to “certain weapons,” the assignment also excludes mention that Americans have the right to “keep” and bear arms.
The parent, speaking on the condition of anonymity, confirmed the assignment to Storyleak and detailed their child’s initial reaction.
“My son was given a workbook at school that is a compilation of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. When they covered the 2nd Amendment, he saw that they were stating that only ‘certain guns’ could be owned and that they had to be ‘registered,’ which he knew was false,” the parent said. “He bought this to my attention as he felt it was wrong to teach these things that aren’t true. I’m extremely proud of my son for his actions.”
“Me and my children are active gun enthusiasts and supporters of the 2nd amendment. I have discussed the 2nd amendment with them several times and explained what it meant and its importance to our country.”
While the parent confronted several school administrators, the workbook is likely to stay in circulation for young students across the state.
“I even told the school officials I talked to that you can’t reword the Constitution to what you think it should be and you should only teach what it is,” the parent said. “We live in a society where children are being taught to fear firearms instead of embracing them and our shooting sports. Heck 50-60 years ago you had police officers coming into schools teaching firearm safety and now we have schools teaching false information and fear. It’s a sad time.”
Unfortunately for young minds across the country, false information regarding the Bill of Rights and Constitution is rampant throughout the public school system.
liberal propagand
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Is that common core? and this is what tenn. governer wants us to accept??
Well, Look what state it is! That is the state that gave us OBAMA!!!! they don’t know that that is BULL$#%&!@* because they gave us BIGGEST LIAR IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES!!!!!!!!!!
Parents need to pay attention at what is been taught at schools. This is nothing but brainwashing and parents must complain. I used to be all over in my kids assignments specially history.
not so, its more lies
Hey Ill. f–k you!
Eventually, our students will be, ever so slowly and deliberately, socialized into fearing and hating guns; to avoid even the mere mention or the image of a gun, i.e. the fellow in Maine who has a tattoo on the side of his belly resembling a semiautomatic pistol shoved into his waistband. He came outside his house to run off a crew of tree trimmers who were disturbing his sleep. The tree trimmers were so mortally terrified that they promptly summoned the local constabulary, who predictably overreacted and responded with a SWAT contingent.
Kids suspended from school for drawing pictures of guns, making their forefinger and thumb into the representation of a gun or nibbling a Pop-Tart into a shape vaguely resembling a pistol are becoming the rule rather than the exception.
Unless we are able to hold the local school board members accountable for idiotic and senseless over reactions like these we will lose our Second Amendment rights within a couple of generations because our children will be terrified to exercise those rights.
Has ANY Teacher READ THE CONSTITUTION & the 2nd AMENDMENT? Good Grief=I’m FED UP with these STUPID Teacher’s!!!
MOST TEACHERS SUCK THE UNION PROTECTS SLUGS LIKE THEM!!!