Anti-Gun program Coming to PA Classrooms

[BobFromBucks]

I guess I'm out of touch with job descriptions for people working in high schools. There is a job called Prevention Education Specialist. This specialist will be incorporating a weapons deterrent program into lesson plans for nearly every classroom in Wilkes-Barre, as well as in school districts throughout Luzerne County.

I'm not sure I trust public schools to implement a non-biased, weapons deterrent program.

Anti-gun Program Coming to Classrooms

WILKES-BARRE – Educators in Luzerne County said students returning to class later this month will see new anti-gun programs, following a summer of violence in the Diamond City.

Workers with Wyoming Valley Alcohol and Drug Services said the weapons deterrent program will be incorporated into lesson plans for nearly every classroom in Wilkes-Barre, as well as in school districts throughout Luzerne County.

The outreach program will be used at G.A.R. High School, just blocks away from where a teen set to enter his senior year was shot and injured on South Grant Street over the weekend.

Susan Mizenko said prevention education specialists will visit classrooms to talk about the dangers of inappropriate gun use and violence, as well as offer students a card pledging not to carry weapons, or spend time with kids who carry guns or knives.

“We`re going to talk about conflict resolution and talking about violence, that`s not the answer,” said Mizenko. “There are better ways to deal with situations and problems.”

Wyoming Valley Alcohol and Drug Services CEO Carmen Ambrosino told Newswatch 16 that the program will also connect youth facing weapons charges in juvenile court with counseling, as well as an opportunity to listen to someone who turned their life around following a weapons arrest.

“Former inmates that are courageous enough to come forward and say our possession of guns, our use of guns, have led us to incarceration. We`re now finally back on the streets living a productive lifestyle,” said Ambrosino. “We have become acceptable of violent outbreaks when we have stressful situations in our lives.”

http://wnep.com/2013/08/08/anti-gun-...to-classrooms/

[HyDef]

It's kind of funny. When they talk about teen pregnancy or std's, they never talk about abstinence or discouraging teens from engaging in sexual activities. It's quiet the opposite. They hand out condoms and educate the students about safe sex.

Following these guidelines, shouldn't they be handing out ammunition and educating students about gun safety?

[medsteele]

I can't picture anything but this becoming an "ALL GUNS ARE BAD AND PEOPLE WITH GUNS ARE BAD PEOPLE" indoctrination program. It might, might start out unbiased enough and earnestly push for peaceful resolution of conflict, but I can quickly see it devolving into a curriculum based on the belief that all violence would be prevented if we only eliminated the tools criminals use to perpetrate it, without any opposing argument.

Right now this doesn't affect me as I don't live in that area. But my son is one, and by the time he's in high school we may very well have a similar program, and the thought irritates the shit out of me.

[Philbert]

Conflict resolution and the need to get out of bad situations before someone gets shot is definitely needed in schools.

What they don't need is the "guns are bad, mmmk" BS.

[Metz]

In this country we have a massive presence of a certain organization, that is recognized throughout the world for their gun safety education. It's called NRA, and we even teach cops, for crying out loud.

I will not trust ANY firearm safety class or program that was tailored without NRA participation any more, than I trust, say, a surgery class taught by a medieval herb healer.

NRA has Eddie Eagle program, designed to be taught by any educator. The program is balanced and completely unbiased. NRA has lots of experience dealing with not just education, but specifically, juvenile gun safety education. Not to mention, many NRA instructors are willing to volunteer for certain cause. I'm not making a single penny out of Eddie Eagle, furthermore - I pay for materials out of my own pocket. And I will GLADLY volunteer in my local school and teach kids about inappropriate gun use, violence and whatever the fuck else is in the agenda. PROPERLY. And I'm sure I'm not alone in that.

Maybe we sould contact Wyoming Valley Alcohol and Drug Services and offer OUR services. At least for the record. They will most likely refuse, but they will give us a leverage, since they'll refuse legitimate firearms safety educators.

[eyecanshoot]

A program like this will most likely be ignored by the students that could benefit from this type of education. Instead, this information will be sucked up by the students that actually pay attention in class. In other words the future leaders of America, the ones who will eventually be passing laws, will be the only ones brainwashed by such a program. The agenda will never stop with failed short term goals, but will continue long into the future.

[iamtommyboy]

You know, when a kid comes home from school and tells me that I shouldn't smoke, or I should exercise more...I agree with them.

When my kid comes home from school and tells me how evil guns are, I will surely encourage her to go back to school and let them know how wrong they are.

[father-of-five]

They're not Philadelphia of Pittsburgh, but the cities in northeastern Pennsylvania are still liberal enough to be frustrating, if not annoying. I had to take an online mandatory "workplace violence" training program which was quite anti-gun, which isn't very surprising coming from New Jersey.

I like what Rush says in that if it is mandatory to have health insurance, then it should be mandatory to have a gun.

[wa3ra]

And the easiest way to get a kid to do something is to tell him 'don't'!

[Yellowfin]

When my kid comes home from school and tells me how evil guns are, I will surely encourage her to go back to school and let them know how wrong they are.

If I have a kid coming home from school saying that, either they will not be a student there the next day or that teacher will not be teaching there again.