Teaching Glocks and Shotguns in the Classroom
In a public high school in southern Florida, guns are the subject of the day in one class. Moreover, in the lesson plan, gun control is addressed in terms of sight alignment, trigger control, stance, grip, and range safety rules, rather than some obscure political football.
At Sarasota Military Academy, a publicly funded charter school in Sarasota County, Florida, the students are getting up close and personal with a number of modern firearms. While the school has long had an excellent small-bore rifle team the new class is something a little different.
An instructor who is also a county sheriff’s deputy is teaching this gun safety class, which is not mandatory. In the class, students, who are also enrolled in JROTC, students get hands-on training in weapons nomenclature and manipulation with Glock handguns, Remington 870 shotguns, and other common modern firearms. At the end of the quarter, students live fire the guns under close supervision of firearms instructors and range safety officers.
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Sarasota Military Academy senior, Caitlin Sagirs (teacupping badly) is learning how to use a Glock.