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Originally Posted by tomwed
I'm from north jersey but I taught in south jersey closer to philly. A fellow teacher Lou grew up in that area where we taught. Riverside had buses and a lot of families were recreational hunters. They had school off on the first day of hunting. Lou was born in 1946 and hunts. He said it was not unusual for 3 boys, 15 years old get on a bus with shotguns or rifles and get dropped off and walk to where you could hunt.
Isn't that hard to imagine? That's the 60's, in New Jersey.
We agreed that if we saw 3 kids get on a bus with shotguns our first thoughts wouldn't be I wonder where they're going hunting.
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That hit close to home. I was teaching in rural Wisconsin in 1997 when about 10 boys were walking through the cafeteria with guns on their backs. Having just moved from the Washington DC area, I was like WHAT? Imagine my surprise when I learned they were attending school early mornings for a gun safety course, offered from 7am until 8am! By the year 2000 they stopped offering the course due to community concerns for the safety of all students..