Posted on 07/28/2023 8:57:14 AM PDT by SJackson
Biden administration is 'leveling a direct attack on hunters’ ability to pass down hunting to the newest generations,' hunting expert tells Fox News Digital
The Biden administration is blocking key federal funding earmarked under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965 for schools with hunting and archery programs.
According to federal guidance circulated among hunting education groups and shared with Fox News Digital, the Department of Education determined that, under the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA) passed last year, school hunting and archery classes are precluded from receiving federal funding. The interpretation could impact millions of American children enrolled in such programs.
"It's a negative for children. As a former educator of 30-plus years, I was always trying to find a way to engage students," Tommy Floyd, the president of the National Archery in the Schools Program, told Fox News Digital in an interview. "In many communities, it's a shooting sport, and the skills from shooting sports, that help young people grow to be responsible adults. They also benefit from relationships with role models."
"You've got every fish and wildlife agency out there working so hard to utilize every scrap of funding, not only for the safety and hunter education, but for the general understanding of why stewardship is so important when it comes to natural resources," he continued. "Any guidance where it's even considered a ‘maybe’ or a prohibition for shooting sports is a huge negative."
According to Floyd, his organization boasts 1.3 million students from nearly 9,000 schools across 49 states who are enrolled in archery courses. Some of those schools have already canceled plans to include archery or hunting education courses in their curriculum due to the Education Department guidance.
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Do you remember how FedGov strong-armed the states into setting the 55 mph speed limit and raising the drinking age to 21? Comply or we withhold road funding. (Of course we’ll continue to collect Federal gasoline taxes because we can).
Was that ever declared unconstitutional?
"It's a negative for children. As a former educator of 30-plus years, I was always trying to find a way to engage students," Tommy Floyd, the president of the National Archery in the Schools Program, told Fox News Digital in an interview. "In many communities, it's a shooting sport, and the skills from shooting sports, that help young people grow to be responsible adults. They also benefit from relationships with role models."
You see … Tommy Floyd is part of the problem, and there are millions of Tommy Floyds across the nation.
This guy never uttered a peep when his program was getting money shoveled to it under the 1965 law that funded these stupid programs in schools. And as a “former educator” he was the biggest fan of the DOE.
He never gave a damn about the shooting and archery. He just wanted the government money.
Smoking crack or meth does not make you fall asleep, smoking heroin/fentanyl does. We have all been gaslighted that it was just cocaine/crack.
No, because the speed limit and the drinking age are related to FHWA Highway funding by the Feds. Granted, the tie to the drinking age is weak, but the fed gov does fund some stop drunk driving programs
Rename: Reducing cimate impact via wildlife management
For decades, gun control maniacs implied hunting was OK, no more I guess.
The federal government should not be funding local schools for any reason.
“1.3 million students from nearly 9,000 schools across 49 states are enrolled in archery courses.”
Wow, I’m surprised at that number.
“Some of those schools have already canceled plans to include archery or hunting education courses in their curriculum due to the Education Department guidance.”
“Guidance” — every school in America should tell these DOE bastards to Eff Off. That whole stinking department needs to be razed and heads out on pikes.
They have ZERO qualifications to provide “guidance” to our schools.
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The government's relentless push to disarm us.
Dear USA: Welcome to Maryland.
Pull your kids out.
ARTH PING.
Yet another reason to eliminate the Department of Education
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