Tuesday, March 15, 2005
ESPN Outdoors - teaching safety
Here's a neat article from ESPN Outdoors: Teaching kids about arms and safety may be more
effective to reduce violence than 'zero tolerance'
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effective to reduce violence than 'zero tolerance'
The safety and success of programs like Archery in the Schools, the Scholastic Clay Target Program and other similar efforts, suggests that giving kids a chance to develop maturity by learning to use guns and bows in an adult, responsible manner, is a much more positive approach than trying to operate on the fantasy that you can erase all aggressive energies out of them — a practice that may conceivably create more anxiety and tension.
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