It used to be something nobody had any issue with.
Make America Great Again, please.
~Easy
This is not anything new for older schools.
We had an indoor shooting range under the bleachers at West High in Phoenix. I don’t think the high school is there anymore.
When I was in second or fifth grade my three years older brother was on the school’s rifle team. He brought his rifle to school on the school bus, not container just a sling. I carried the box of fifty shells.
So did my high school.
So did the Kodak headquarters.
Jr ROTC students would take their M-1 Garands home once a week to clean them. THEY RODE PUBLIC BUSES to and from the high school!
Yep.
We has some very competitivr Rifle teams back in the day.
Kinda cool. Could even earn a Varsity Letter with an M1 symbol it.
My grandad’s high school had a shooting range in the basement of his high school; his school’s shooting team won many a rifle target shooting event.
I am seventy five, BTW. My brother was a very good shot with a peep sight on his 22. He and my step father went frog hunting one night, using a flashlight to spot the loud bull frogs along the creek. The step father shone the light on a pair of eyes and my brother would squeeze off a round, then the stepfather would go pick up the frog. He shined the light on a pair of eyes and my brother took a single shot. When stepfather picked up the carcass it was a large water moccasin who must have also been hunting frogs that night.
Also had bibles and ten commandments for sure.
Detroit - Where the Weak are Killed and Eaten!
I was on the rifle team in high school, it was part of the junior ROTC program. The range was in the basement of the gym. We frequently went to Ft. Benning and trained with the U.S. Army Marksmanhsip Training Unit, that included several Olympic Gold Medalists. We fired their match grade rifles ranging in caliber from .22 to 30 06. Great experience.
They still have high school shooting teams in some parts of PA. I suppose the only thing unusual about it in Detroit is that they can’t understand how guns can safely be in schools.
Millennial videographer: “This was a public school, right? Unbelievable, when a school would teach you to shoot guns.”
We said the Pledge of Allegiance (”...and to the republic for which it stands...”) every morning.
We had to accomplish difficult tasks in gym class, and afterwards, shower naked as a group.
We wrote in longhand and did algebra with pencil and paper. We also had shop and home economics classes.
We had to memorize multiplication tables and the state capitals.
And when we misbehaved, we were disciplined at school, and again that evening by Dad.
I think we’ve become largely a nation of fatherless weaklings.
My Christian summer camp had a .22 range. I spent most of my time there when not making sand candles or plastic lacing keychains (late ‘70’s). ;-)
So did my high school, Southwest High School, in Kansas City, MO.
I was on the JROTC rifle team, and would shoot several times a week, going through a box of W/W T-22 ammo (thank you US Army) through a very nice Remington 40X single shot .22 rifle, on a 50’ range.
Mark
I was the captain of my team.
So did my high school, Southwest High School, in Kansas City, MO.
I was on the JROTC rifle team, and would shoot several times a week, going through a box of W/W T-22 ammo (thank you US Army) through a very nice Remington 40X single shot .22 rifle, on a 50’ range.
Mark
One year in high school, my friend and I were going Deer hunting after school. Our guns were in my truck on the gun rack. Today, if someone did that the school would be in lockdown and the student would be arrested.