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.
This is the kind of thing parents and pastors need to make known. They also need to confront the school board and address it at PTO meetings. They are teaching our children UNCONSTITUTIONAL things and, not knowing better if not exposed to the TRUTH, they will allow this unconstitutional action to be acceptable by inaction. Get this out to the public through newspapers, radio, TV, from the pulpits, etc., but GET THE WORD OUT!
get this c**p out of the schools….once obama is out of office we have a lot of cleaning up to do. he is rewriting history books.
I call bull$#%&!@*; Show us the proof.
That is not true. There is no gun registration to have the right to protect your family yourself and your country
wrong the constitution does not say register u weapons that s something the gov. decided
It doesn’t not say that. In fact our founders never wanted nationalization of gun registered because it would make it too easy for the government to come in and take all our weapons.
if you have children in school make sure they know what our founders wanted..l
Wth??
need to get gov. out of schools and our personal lives
As Americans we need to make sure our children know the truth, sit down with them and read the Constitution, even if you have read it before you may learn something you did not know before. Knowledge is power, and we the people still have that power. We need to wield before it is too late. Hooah!