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.
Home school your children. I did and very happy for it. My daughter graduated, got a good job, and didn’t let the school system Indoctranate her.
What a joke! People need to wake up and smell the stench that is coming from Washington D.C.
All of these new text books have wrong information in them. Some of it is out and out lies. Who is checking these books before they get to our kids????
I am so glad I left that horrid state! My mom moved me there when I was 13, and it was by far, the most evil police state have ever known.
I’m glad my parents moved out of the land of sheeple to the wild west Arizona 63 years ago. Here the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are still the same as the original.
Well that’s total BS
I thought democrat stood for democracy?
Sad that the great republican Abe Lincoln is from there and the state is so scary left now.
liberal teachers brainwashing the children by not telling them the truth or even teaching the right history of this country like slavery women s civil rights, rights space exploration and all it’s other history of this once great country before dickhead obama took over.
Deport the publisher for treason.