Wolemba Ilana Novick, Marichi 23, 2018
kuchokera AlterNet
Lolemba usiku, Pat Elder adaphunzitsa kalasi yake yachizolowezi ya GED ku Great Hills High School ku Maryland. Lachiwiri m'mawa, adadzuka atamva kuti nyumba yake ndi malo enanso asukulu; itangotsala pang'ono 8 koloko m'mawa, wophunzira wina wachimuna yemwe anali ndi mfuti adawombera, kuvulaza ophunzira anzake awiri komanso kuwombana ndi apolisi asanamwalire.
Mkulu anadabwa kwambiri. Monga director of the National Coalition to Protect Student Privacy, bungwe lomwe likulimbana ndi zankhondo m'maphunziro, chochitika chowopsacho chinali umboni wochulukirapo wamkangano womwe wakhala akupanga kwazaka zambiri: mfuti, ngakhale omwe amati ndi ophunzitsidwa bwino komanso akuluakulu a Junior Reserve. Mapulogalamu a Training Corps (JROTC), alibe malo m'masukulu.
"Tiyenera kutumiza maimelo okwana 150,000 kumayambiriro kwa sabata yamawa," Mkulu adauza AlterNet. Mgwirizanowu uli ndi magulu ambiri kuphatikiza World Beyond War, Code Pinki, Veterans for Peace, Padziko Lapansi Mtendere, ndi Lekani Kulemba Ana. "Pempholi ndi lapadera," adatero, "chifukwa silikutsata aphungu a boma, osati Congress, koma limakhudza aphungu a boma. Zomwe tikuyesera kuchita ndikuyesera kutseka malo owombera m'masukulu apamwamba aboma. "
Cholinga chachikulu ndikusintha malamulo, Mkulu adati:
"Tikuyang'ana aphungu a boma payekha kuti atero. Chiyembekezo chathu ndikuti mwina titha kukhala ndi malamulo okhazikitsidwa osachepera theka la magawo khumi ndi awiri posakhalitsa. Ndikukhulupirira kuti bungwe la United States Military Entrance Processing Command, lomwe ndi nthambi yolembera anthu usilikali, likufuna kuyika zala za ana ambiri mozungulira zomwe zingayambitse, kaya zikhale zenizeni kapena zenizeni, momwe zingathere. "
Mapulogalamu a JROTC, akukhulupirira, ndi gawo la kulemba anthu. Pali mapulogalamu pafupifupi 3,800 a JROTC m'masukulu aku America, malinga ndi Mkulu, 2,000 omwe ali ndi mapulogalamu ochita bwino motsogozedwa ndi Programme ya Civil Marksmanship Program. Pulogalamuyi, Mkulu adati, "ili ndi chuma choposa cha NRA. Pulogalamu ya Civil Marksmanship Program imakhazikika kwambiri m'masukulu aboma. Ndi bungwe la NRA, komanso maseneta a Lautenberg ndi Simon mu 1996, pomwe Pulogalamu ya Civil Marksmanship Program idapangidwa kukhala bungwe lovomerezeka ndi bungwe, lidayitcha kuti chipongwe komanso mphatso kwa NRA m'masukulu aboma.
Mapulogalamuwa, omwe amaphunzitsa ophunzira momwe angawombere zida, akhazikika ku South. "Alabama ndiyochuluka, yochulukirapo kuposa, kunena, Rhode Island kukhala ndi mapulogalamu amtunduwu m'masukulu aboma. Chiŵerengero cha anthu olembedwa usilikali ku Georgia chikuŵirikiza katatu kuposa cha Connecticut, motero pali madera ena kumene usilikali wakhazikika kwambiri monga mbali ya chikhalidwe cha anthu.”
Ponena za Great Hills, Mkulu adalongosola kuti Maryland ili ndi malo osungira komanso omasuka, koma, "Great Mills High School ili pamalo ofiira. Ili pamtunda wa makilomita awiri kuchokera pa Patuxent River Naval Air Test Center, yomwe ndi malo apanyanja omwe ali pafupi kukula kwa Pentagon. Ndi zazikulu."
Monga gawo la kampeni yodandaulira, Mkulu akufuna kuwonetsetsa kuti makolo amvetsetsa mbali yobisika ya ubale pakati pa sukulu ndi asitikali. Ngakhale ana awo sali m'mapulogalamu apamwamba, deta yawo ikhoza kuperekedwabe kwa olembedwa usilikali. Ophatikizidwa mu Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), mwala wapangodya wa ndondomeko ya maphunziro a dziko, ndi lamulo lomwe limati, "ngati wolembera usilikali apempha dzina, adiresi, ndi nambala ya foni ya ophunzira pasukulu inayake yasekondale, ndiye kuti sukulu ya sekondale iyi. akuyenera kupereka, koma sukulu ya sekondale iyenera kuuza makolo kuti ali ndi ufulu wotuluka.
Vuto, Mkuluyo anapitiriza, n’lakuti lamuloli “silikunena mwachindunji mmene zinthu ziyenera kuchitikira, choncho masukulu ambiri sachita zambiri. Akhoza kuika chinachake m’buku la ophunzira, chokwiriridwa patsamba 36, kapena chingakwiridwe pawebusaiti, koma makolo ambiri sadziwa.”
Pempholi likhalapo pa Marichi 24, kutsatira March for Our Lives pothandizira kuwongolera mfuti. Saina pempholo pa Mgwirizano Wadziko Lonse Woteteza Zinsinsi Za Ophunzira ndi World Beyond War Websites.
