Guns don\u2019t belong in our public schools. JROTC guns don\u2019t belong in our public schools either, and that air-riflery is part of JROTC training came as news to me (a former eight-year school board member), thanks to student activists at Lincoln High School, who brought the issue to light. The San Diego Unified School District board was right to vote JROTC riflery off-campus several weeks ago and that vote should have been unanimous, not split 3-2. In an unfortunate lapse of judgment and will, but as pure political gesture, this matter was reintroduced at last Tuesday\u2019s board meeting and the vote flipped 3-2 the other way \u2014 keeping riflery through this academic year ostensibly so that students can participate in springtime riflery competitions. The truth is that our school board should stick to its guns: guns don\u2019t belong in our public schools, not even JROTC air rifles. The board could easily have called upon JROTC military leaders in this military town to arrange alternative military venues for such student competitions. Frances O\u2019Neill Zimmerman La Jolla<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Guns don\u2019t belong in our public schools. JROTC guns don\u2019t belong in our public schools either, and that air-riflery is part of JROTC training came as news to me (a former eight-year school board member), thanks to student activists at Lincoln High School, who brought the issue to light. The San Diego Unified School District […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11561","_seopress_titles_title":"Decision to close JROTC gun ranges was right call","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11593,11552,11561],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-no-images","category-opinion","category-peninsula-beacon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302228","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=302228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}