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Tennessee Firearms Association Claims Common Core Standards Promote Anti-Gun Agenda
Do the Common Core State Standards promote an anti-gun agenda? That’s what the Tennessee Firearms Association apparently thinks.The nonprofit pro-gun group sent out an email last week calling for legislators to stop or delay the implementation of the new policy, which lays out a set of education benchmarks designed to emphasize critical thinking and deeper learning, and which has been adopted in 45 states and the District of Columbia. According to a written statement, the Firearms association takes issue with the way the new standards represent the Second Amendment.
"We are already seeing textbooks and teaching assignments that are a part of Common Core intentionally or recklessly misrepresenting the Second Amendment in schools across the country," John Harris, executive director of the Tennessee Firearms Association, said in the email. "And we want to insure [sic] that the liberal anti-gun agenda is not allowed to invade Tennessee schools."
Do the Common Core State Standards promote an anti-gun agenda? That’s what the Tennessee Firearms Association apparently thinks.
The nonprofit pro-gun group sent out an email last week calling for legislators to stop or delay the implementation of the new policy, which lays out a set of education benchmarks designed to emphasize critical thinking and deeper learning, and which has been adopted in 45 states and the District of Columbia. According to a written statement, the Firearms association takes issue with the way the new standards represent the Second Amendment.
"We are already seeing textbooks and teaching assignments that are a part of Common Core intentionally or recklessly misrepresenting the Second Amendment in schools across the country," John Harris, executive director of the Tennessee Firearms Association, said in the email. "And we want to insure [sic] that the liberal anti-gun agenda is not allowed to invade Tennessee schools."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/21/tennessee-firearms-common-core_n_4138688.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
Critical thinking and deeper learning are bad? Why are righties proud of stupidity?
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