The SDUSD Board of Directors voted 3 to 2 to remove all marksmanship programs from all SDUSD high schools. That affects nine high school programs within SDUSD. Let\u2019s not forget, marksmanship\/rifle shooting is a sport. It is a NCAA-sanctioned collegiate sport in the USA. Marksmanship with pump air rifles is taught in thousands of high schools throughout our\u00a0nation. It is, after all, one more option for students to learn a sport. To date, it is NOT illegal to teach this sport in schools.\u00a0In San Diego, it is apparently a matter of social acceptability. A few people don\u2019t accept it; therefore, it must not be tolerated. Let\u2019s look at the instances of injury in air rifle marksmanship. Zero\u00a0instances in SDUSD. How many injuries have there been in football, baseball, soccer, basketball,\u00a0volleyball? If you look at the sport from the viewpoint of teaching aggressiveness, football should be banned. Will archery be next? How about baseball? A bat can be used as a weapon. Where does this “no tolerance” law stop? JROTC is just another option for students to succeed. If\u00a0they are interested in marksmanship and wish to go on to the collegiate level, and then maybe the Olympics, who are we to say\u00a0no? Are we afraid? What is the real\u00a0reason for preventing students from learning air rifle safety? I\u00a0would far prefer my student learn under these circumstances than on\u00a0the streets or from friends. We must allow our students to learn in\u00a0 safe environments and I believe you have done the students a great disservice by taking away this safe option. This costs SDUSD $0! Thousands of California high schools have air rifle classes. If not JROTC, then CMA, Civilian Marksmanship. Even the private school Francis Parker offers an air rifle class \u2014 and they are proud of their program. We should follow suit by making a positive example of our air rifle ranges, not submit to fear and “political\u00a0correctness.” If we are to teach tolerance, then let\u2019s teach tolerance. Let\u2019s give our students the option to learn about air\u00a0rifle safety in a classroom, not on the streets.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The SDUSD Board of Directors voted 3 to 2 to remove all marksmanship programs from all SDUSD high schools. That affects nine high school programs within SDUSD. Let\u2019s not forget, marksmanship\/rifle shooting is a sport. It is a NCAA-sanctioned collegiate sport in the USA. Marksmanship with pump air rifles is taught in thousands of high […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11559","_seopress_titles_title":"Guest Editorial Marksmanship is a collegiate sport","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11559,11593,11552,11550],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beach-bay-press","category-no-images","category-opinion","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}