Teacher on guns "wanted to make them horrified"

[jmra]

"what if there were no guns in the world"

Might as well ask "what if there were no knives" or "what if there were no sticks" or "what if there were no fists".....

As a side note:
Our school had career day yesterday. My youngest son had some questions for a LEO during the q&a portion of his presentation. Went a little like this...(my son is 9 years old)

Son: what kind of gun do you carry?
LEO: a glock.
Son: what caliber?
LEO: 40
Son: fixed sites or night sites?
LEO: night sites.
Son: gen 3 or gen 4?
LEO: gen 3.
I told him it was time to let some others ask some questions. Was afraid his next question was going to be how Long it takes him to field strip his glock blind folded.
Later I heard his teacher asking my son what gun he thought would best be suited for her own use. His reply of course started with, "well I've always been a glock man myself...."
I love our school and our teachers.

[tacticool]

The students should be horrified. Horrified at the ignorance and immaturity of their supposed teacher.

One of the traditional purposes of education, beyond the basics of literacy and mathematics, was to teach the student how to think. Today, the focus of public schools is teaching students what to think.

In a classical education, rote memorization ("grammar") was the foundation, followed by logic and then rhetoric. Many public schools work to keep students focused on memorizing facts through high school graduation, stifling their ability to mature past the WHAT of the grammar stage to the WHY of the logic stage, which is a necessary step on the road to the creativity and originality of rhetoric. Without the analytical skills developed in the logic stage, people have limited ability to evaluate facts and draw logical conclusions.

[LarryH]

Read Underground History of American Education

It's a horrifying look at why everything has been dumbed down, why childhoods have been extended and infantilism encouraged.

1973 Childhood International Education Seminar in Boulder, Colorado - Harvard psychiatrist Chester M. Pierce:

"Every child in America entering school at the age of five is mentally ill because he comes to school with certain allegiances to our founding fathers, toward our elected officials, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural being, and toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity. It’s up to you as teachers to make all these sick children well—by creating the international child of the future."

Horrifying, indeed . . .

[MeMelYup]

It appears to me that TSRA members needs to assemble a new questionaire for Texas Schoolboards on the entire Constitution with emphasis on the 2nd amendment and the three R's. This way we as voters we will have some kind of report card to use when electing these people. I know that every one has different ideals on most subjects (ie. freedom of religion), what is needed is a common platform to work from.
"Problems without possible solutions don't help". Unknown.