Two Iowa School Districts Offer Gun Training/Safety Class in 7th Grade
The North Butler and Clarksville school districts in Iowa are now offering a mandatory gun training/safety class ("Hunters Safety Course") to 7th and 8th grade students and a voluntary class for high schoolers in the evenings.
The classes started this semester and realistic but non-firing guns and replica ammunition are used, not actual guns.
"Please understand that we do not believe that all students will be hunting, nor do we expect them to," said school Superintendent Joel Foster in a blog post about the class. "The expectation is that through this all students will be exposed to firearm safety, and as such learn to respect and how to manage and control firearms."
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