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.
Get the dang govt out of our schools! Nothing but communism!!
people learn history. if you don’t. nd
What do you expect from Illinois?
…..they gave us Obama
Feed them Lies Young and they will believe it.
Who gave them the right to re-write history
The best lies are half truths… The 2nd amendment says nothing of the such but the law requires registration and background checks to purchase new guns from the store… So they seem to be merging their agenda with the laws into what they want people to believe about the constitution so when they change the constitution no one will notice… :/ but I swore to defend my nation from enemies both foreign and domestic… And the more radical our government becomes the more like a group of domestic terrorist they appear to be… What’s going to be the boiling point?
This story broke several months ago. I can assure you that this really happened, as I live in the Springfield area, and it caused quite the stir. I believe they took this workbook out of the curriculum because of it.
When did this happen? School has been out for two months now for the summer. Is this a scam to get people riled?
Changing our Constitution. That is impressive.
COMMON-CORE = COMMUNISM!!