Regarding the 2nd amendment, students really need to understand two things when TSHTF:
1) Have one (or more)
2) Know how to use it (or them)

While I agree with you. I can say that I spend time with my daughter who still lives at home EVERYDAY. She is 14 and sometimes wants me to leave her alone but that is not her choice.

My wife and I are there no matter what. Normally spending 8 or more hours each day of the weekends and at least a couple hours each week night sitting right beside her helping her with her business. Not many 14 year olds have a successful business but hers has allowed her to travel to over a dozen countries over the last 3 summers and she will go to 3 more this summer.

Check out People to People. That's the program that she travels with.

There's that.

I thought that too...but hanging to the left seemed appropriate here and pretty much means the same as not having any.

My thought was, "Are there any there?"

To the left, apparently.

Which begs the question, "How they hangin'?"

Look deeper - who are in the northeast? Wealthy capitalists. The logical conclusion (to our young minds) was the wealthy killed the buffalo for a little tasty treat, and destroyed the poor, subjugated natives for a snack. And takes away the guilt from the expansionist government. And as kids, we bought this hook, line, and sinker, because they were "adults" and "teachers" and we were taught to look up to them...

Problem is, how many parents will spend TIME with their kids and teach them anything,from Basic American Politics to Throwing a baseball (or frisbee or football) with them to how to relate with other people...

...rather than take the lazy way out, stay at the office or at the bar afterwards, or dash off to the girlfriends because home life is "such a bummer", or crawl into their own shell, immersed in their own thoughts, rather than engage those who look to them for guidance.

First, one has to get the parents out of their self-centered and destructive shell, and get engaged with their kids as something PRECIOUS, rather than a burden... yet...

How do you do that, when it's considered impolite or offensive to even *talk* to someone else? We've had the real and the responsible taught right out of *us* by the same institutions poisoning our kids and grandkids... so only by rejecting the antisocial behavior we were taught (or more accurately, brainwashed into) can we start once again to be normal, rational human beings, and engage our kids enough to teach them right from wrong, rather than shirk that responsibility to a bunch of socialy engineered professional indoctrinators.

This... skewing of our country's direction; others stealing, through subversion and poisoning our childrens minds,our rights amd liberties: this assault on our constitution and as such, our nation... This assault, by enemies foreign and/or domestic... this must END!

It looks like a prelude to confiscation or restrictive ownership to me. Only those the state deems worthy of ownership (cronies and fellow travelers) can have them. Let them have an inch and....

Dude. Seriously? You think it is ok that they are outright teaching that the constitution says something it does not say in any way shape or form? I am very glad you are not the one educating my child.

That makes ZERO sense. THE TRUTH, IDIOT!

@g4lt
The lesson isn't showing "here are the steps to register a gun". It's saying the 2nd Amendment requires gun registration, which is technically incorrect.

It appears to me they're trying to spoon-feed the kids the Amendments in a way they can understand. Maybe they didn't do the best job putting it in kid-friendly terms, but I don't see it as a political bias. The kids will have plenty of time to work out what "a well-regulated militia" is when they get a few years older. The lesson says the founders didn't want gov't to take away the guns, and I think that gives the kids a decent understanding on a 12-y/o level.

You're insane. You're reading things I didn't say. I said teach them... the truth. Also, I don't register my weapons. And it's not illegal. Sheesh.

You never covered the age of consent for civil disobedience part. These are KIDS FFS. They shouldn't have to ruin their lives because YOU disagree with a law. Let them learn how to comply with it and decide if they wish to break it when they're old enough to make an informed decision. If you want more immediate direct action, feel free to not register your own guns: I have VERY little sympathy for direct action cheerleaders anyways, and would particularly love watching one have to eat their own dogfood for a change instead of sending others to do the dirty work.

I think I covered that when I said teach them the REAL Constitution.

Ah, so there's only one way to teach children now? A common core, if you will? Lessons must strictly be about one topic, no hiding other concepts in there as well? God forbid that a child learns in a different way and would therefore be left behind then, right?

You'd also best teach them how to raise bail and hire an attorney then... Civil Disobedience is not for amateurs, nor should kids be placed in a civilly disobedient position until they can KNOWINGLY evaluate the consequences of the stand and accept them. The statists are the ones that need unknowing masses, we need smart individualists that can take principled stands knowing full well what the costs may be.

Have you lost your mind? The constitution, which is what the school lesson is about, says nothing about registration. If they want to include a lesson on the law of their state then fine. There is nothing stopping them from doing that. However, lying about the contents of the constitution is not some grandiose civics lesson. It's just a lie. Nothing more.

What gun registration? And who in there right mind would do it? Teach them NOT to. Teach them the REAL Constitution and what means. I'm not the one in dream land.

I disagree that Stockholming is the lesser danger. I understand it could cause serious problems in the future if the kids aren't educated on the laws, but when they are adults they will be far more capable of seeking out these laws and determining their morality. If they grow up knowing no other way but the law, it is a much harder battle to try and free their mind.

Simplified: not learning the laws puts you at risk of incarceration or possibly death, learning the laws puts you at risk for a life of slavery. You can call whichever one you'd like the more dangerous of the two, I prefer to have liberty or death.

But I'm in complete agreement with your second statement. You can't accept reality without knowing what reality is. I just fear younger minds won't be able to discern the value of the information.

Yeah, Stockholming is clearly a danger here, but it's a lesser danger than the danger ignorance nets you. I take it as axiomatic that no matter how disgusting the information is, you're always the better person for having learned it.