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Monday, December 17, 2018

Iowa school districts add hunters ed course to PE curriculum

Beginning next Spring, middle school students in two Iowa school districts will receive hunter’s safety as part of their physical education class curriculum.

Both the North Butler and Clarksville Community School Districts will deliver a mandatory hunter safety course in the 7th and 8th grade PE curriculum reports Radio Iowa. Students in grades 9 through 12 will be given a chance to take voluntary classes.

“What we do best is educate our kids,” said Superintendent Joel Foster. “We feel if we educate our kids in how to use weapons responsibly, how to respect them, understand it’s not a video game and those sort of things, that maybe we’ll cut down on our chances of having a severe incident.”

Parents who do not want their children participating in the training can opt out of the class.

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sounds good to me- hope other 49 - or at least MD - follows suit. I know, i know no chance of that happening.

Steve said...

This makes all the good sense in the world. All schools should participate in this!

Anonymous said...

Good idea,kids should know how to safely handle a gun.

Anonymous said...


Both high schools I attended had rifle teams; both boys and girls were on the teams. Safety was paramount.