Posted on 10/24/2009 9:38:31 AM PDT by I Hate Obama
Friday, September 25, 2009
Please Stand-Up and Make Your Voices Heard!
On Wednesday, September 16, the Abington Heights School District voted 4-3 to eliminate funding for the Abington Heights High School Rifle Team.
Unfortunately, the Abington Heights School District is choosing to balance the budget on the backs of tomorrow’s shooters. Rifle teams, such as these, help foster the future of our Second Amendment freedoms, shooting sports, and safe firearms training.
The Abington Journal even reported that coaches, team members, and parents were not given advance notice that funding for the team was in jeopardy at the school district’s meeting last week. Because no prior notice was given, the public and the team’s members did not have the opportunity to voice their concerns and support for the program.
Please contact the Superintendent of Schools, Michael Mahon, and the School Board Directors TODAY and respectfully urge them to reconsider the decision to eliminate the Abington Heights High School Rifle Team by allowing open, public discussion on the issue. Youth rifle teams are an American tradition that must be preserved.
Superintendent Mahon and the School Board can be reached by phone at (570) 585-8251, (570) 585-8275 or (570) 586-2511.
To contact the Superintendent and School Board via U.S. Mail, please send correspondence to 200 East Grove Street, Clarks Summit, PA 18411. A list of School Board members can be found below.
Cathy Ann Hardaway, President Jody DeRitter, Vice-President Louise Brzuchalski, Treasurer Michele Tierney, Secretary Warren Acker Jeanne Cadman Kenneth Heron Francis Santoriello Robert Small
Link to Abington Journal/Times Leader article:
http://www.timesleader.com/AbingtonJournal/sports/Time_rsquo_s_up_for_rifle_team_09-23-2009.html
The Abingdon Heights school district is well-known for creating some of the highest property taxes in the area with teachers who go on strike nearly every contract cycle.
Avid hunters and a couple of local gun stores need to step up and support these kids.
Avid hunters and a couple of local gun stores need to step up and support these kids.
Back when I was in my early teens - a far back ways - living in a humble little hamlet in Mass., we had a teens rifle club and it wasn't funded by schools or other means of tax paper money.
The town let us use the town hall basement for a shooting range and there was no outcry. I was the only girl - and some of the boys objected to that - because I almost always out shot them...but I'd been raised on a north woods farm in Maine by my Grampa, a Maine Guide. I had a sweet little Remington 22 long rifle my Grampa had got in trade from a NYC man for one of Grampa’s hand made bow guns.
What did they expect from a public school? Conservative values?
The irony —no rifle teams but plenty of school shootings...
Hmm - a bow gun? You mean one of those bow-mounted shotgun/cannon rigs? I know that waterfowl hunters and guides used those many years ago - didn’t they load something like a pound of shot per charge?
The coaches are teachers who are covered by the schools liability policy.
That’s what I thought about trying to do. The fundraise everything else. Why not this.
I am headed to gun store today and I am planning to give a copy of the article to the owner.
I wish all schools were completely private.
Is there no end to the dregs of intellectual and cultural endeavor who doggedly rise to positions of power and vote in lockstep?
One can only hope they become victims of their own stupidity before it hurts someone else--i.e. meet a bad guy with a weapon on their way to a "gun free" America.
vaudine
Quite powerful
Grampa also made snowshoes - and frames for tennis rackets for a major outfit
all on his gas powered lathe - we had no electricty on the ridge then
Pennsylvania is going the way of California, New York, Massachusetts to name a few........
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