Is anybody following this? I am only able to find a few articles regarding this for how massive an impact this could have. Is there anyone on here that works in public education or with a legal background that could give it some context. Please and thank you.
I’m pretty sure the budgets are set at the state and local levels but perhaps they can include clauses in federal funding of which sports are approved for funding at the federal level. I wouldn’t get removing target shooting of any sort… they’re Olympic sports. Perhaps state funding could be used to allocate support of those sports in school still to get around this but I’m sure it would take advocacy at the local and state levels to be supported.
Reading the article that was sourced from the Fox News one, I don’t see how Biden is the one removing funding. He’s executing the law based on a bill that Congress passed and the execution of the removal of funding is based on the Bipartisan Bill -
The prohibition went into effect immediately on June 25, 2022, and applies to all existing and future awards under all ESEA programs," the department told the outlet. “The department is administering the bipartisan law as written by Congress.”
The specific provision in the act was an amendment to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act that prohibits federal funds from going to programs that “provide to any person a dangerous weapon or training in the use of a dangerous weapon.”
I mean the headline is misleading but that seems to get people riled up in one way or another… and I really don’t like to defend Biden because there are enough legitimate things to not like about him. This doesn’t actually appear to be one of them and the ire should be placed at the feet of the group that wrote and sponsored the bill.
What does any of this have to do with archery? Now shooting a bow at a target is becoming evil? On second thought I can see how a 20 lb recurve is a gateway to a mass shooting mind set.
I’m a little confused on this. I see it saying the funding can’t go to shooting sports or archery. The article says the SCHOOL is defunded if they teach hunting or archery.
I don’t really know of any school-funded hunting or gun shooting classes in my local schools. They do archery in PE and this would be dumb if it stopped that, but I guess I’m just not really seeing the programs that currently exist which would be cut?
It also seems that this took effect a year ago so I’m not sure what the news is.
Interested to learn more if anyone has any info.
I am not sure about the impact of this practically. On its face, it is a horrible policy, however, I am not aware of any school funded shooting or hunting programs. My oldest son was a competitive trap shooter in high school, in California no less, but his team was a club that was sanctioned by the school, but not supported or funded by the school. The organizing association, the California Youth Shooting Sports Association, has a Fall 2023 schedule posted for Sporting Clays. Trap was a spring event. Perhaps in other states there are school funded programs, but I’m not sure how much of an impact the policy will have here.