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By Jason Howerton, Mar. 24, 2014, The Blaze
The superintendent of Springfield Public Schools told 970 WMAY on Monday
that he doesn’t plan to remove a workbook that contains an outrageous
definition of the Second Amendment, despite the outrage it has
generated among parents.
The workbook, currently being utilized by seventh-graders at Grant Middle School in Springfield, Ill.,
teaches students that the Second Amendment gives people the “right to certain
weapons, providing that they register them and they have not been in prison.”
Superintendent Bob Hill told 970 WMAY that the
workbook is not the only resource that provides a definition of the Second
Amendment and argued that the interpretation found in the material teaches
students “what happens with the right to bear arms in the context of 2014.”
He argued that “no place in the book does it portray that that
is the Second Amendment — it’s a study guide summary of the Second Amendment
and the impact of the Second Amendment on the lives of people today.” In
“reality,” he added, some places do require the registration of firearms.
Hill
also claimed the material is not “proselytizing” a certain political point of
view and said removing the material at this point in time is “pretty unfair
relative to what the teacher has going on.” Micromanaging teachers in the
district by reviewing all material they want to teach, he said, would be
insulting to educators.
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