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I think it's sad.
One of the main achievements of programs like this is the gun safety training aspect that remains with them and prevents gun accidents further on down the road.

What about killing animals for food? Or to make shoes?

In Genesis 1: 26, Elohim grants humankind "dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." The Hebrew word for "dominion" means that it's OK to boss animals around or shoot them if you want. Who are we to question God, especially when He LETS us do something (as opposed to his more normal practice of telling us we can't)?

But even reasoning from city-slicker premises(only slightly compromised by a sketchy paramilitary background), you are drawn inexorably to the only logical conclusion: this is absurdity at its most absurd. If one has a school markmanship team led by a school teacher, has one not implicitly sanctioned marksmanship?

Possibly the principal was motivated by some eleventh hour sympathy for the skeet to be sacrificed in the name of marksmanship; more probably, he is the kind of bureaucratic bully too common in the education industry.

I didn't say hunting for pleasure is wrong; it's just not for me.

Oh bother. Another crisis is apon us.

Oh bother, another crisis in the capital.

Sorry to interupt but do you beleive what Walter childs said? Is he out of his mind?

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April 10, 2008
A month before the May 6 primary, supporters and opponents of the $457 million in school bonds on the ballot are getting organized.

One group, Vote Yes for Kids, is taking out ads, including billboards, in support of the bonds. Another group, The People's Choice, which includes school board members Deena Hayes and Walter Childs, will send out a mailing opposing them, according to Hayes.

There are two school bonds, one for $412 million dollars worth of new schools and renovations, and one for $45 million to rebuild Eastern Guilford High School, which was destroyed by arson in November 2006.

The $412 million bond would create seats for 6,000 students at about $68,000 a seat, or roughly $1.5 million a classroom.

In addition, the $412 million bond would build only four new schools. One is an $80 million high school near Piedmont Triad International Airport that would be one of the most expensive in the state. The other new schools on the list are a $33 million replacement for Jamestown Middle School, a $25 million elementary school in the southeastern part of the county and a $25 million elementary school in northern Greensboro.

That bond is for 27 projects, including the four new schools. Among the larger projects are $33 million for new classrooms, a library and a gym at Southeast Guilford High School; $31 million for the same improvements at Southwest Guilford High; a $20 million addition and renovations at Alamance Elementary; and a $17 million expansion of Summerfield Elementary.

The $412 million bond also includes $24 million to expand Ragsdale, combining it with the old Jamestown Middle building. The Jamestown and Ragsdale projects were planned for the 2003 bond, but cost overruns and new projects pushed them off the list. Many Jamestown-area residents were angered by the delay, and some have said they will oppose the new bond because of that.

Hayes described The People's Choice as an ad-hoc organization of people opposed to racial and ethnic disparity in the schools. She said the group opposes the bonds because minority residents of the county will not benefit from it as much as white residents, who she said are getting "palatial" schools such as the Northern Guilford middle and high schools.

Hayes said, "Taxpaying citizens of color are asked to support the school system, and their kids are getting the least benefit from it."

Hayes and Childs also said The People's Choice opposes the bonds because the construction contracts from the 2003 and 2000 school bonds went disproportionately to white construction companies.

"We're making sure that moneys that are allocated for schools are equitably distributed among all the contractors," Childs said. "It needs to benefit the black community as well as the white community."

Guilford County Schools has a program in place that is supposed to ensure that minority contractors get a share of construction contacts. Childs, however, said that many of the contracts arranged under that program go to businesses owned by white women.

"We don't know if those were fronting for large white companies," Childs said.

I wish there would have been a range that my JROTC class could've visited. Marksmanship teaches responsibility. People get nervous when they hear teenager and gun in the same sentence but not too many years ago it was perfectly acceptable for a student to have a gun rack in thier truck and they could even carry a pocket knife. God help the poor kid who gets caught with a nail file today. Even tylenol can get you suspended. Instead of educating students we shelter them. So, when they finally come into contact with, for example guns, it tends to be a bad experience.

Don't worry about teaching the kids how to handle fire arms safely, much less compete. Television is teaching our kids all about firearms.