Don't Stay in School (video/topic)

[Benton]

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along similar lines, I wrote a piece a few weeks ago about gun control and gun safety, and why we should have gun education in schools. The short if it was I had skeet shooting as part of a two week lesson in middle school Ag. Everybody had to take it and the teacher made everyone learn about gun safety. Even if you didn't shoot (and several students opted not to take part in the final test of safely retrieving, loading and firing the shotgun at skeet.

that district now offers nothing like that. In the past four years, they've had two accidental teen shootings. The class might not have prevented either (and honestly probably wouldn't have) but who knows.

two of the classes i use every day were life skills classes. Home ec and one called consumer math. It was how to balance a check book, simple interest, all that simple stuff you don't exactly learn in algebra. We need more of that. The majority of kids I see are unhireable because they don't know basics. My own son is in advanced classes at school and his councilor is encouraging him to become an engineer. He doesn't know state capitals. He's got know idea how many senators a stare has. He can't make a grilled cheese sandwich.