Teacher assigns students to write gun control letters to Congress. Parents aren’t happy.

By Jana J. Pruet

A Georgia middle school social studies teacher recently gave his class a writing assignment that has some parents upset, Blue Lives Matter reported.

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Corey Sanders, who teaches seventh-graders at Hampton Middle School in Hampton, assignd his students to write letters to U.S. lawmakers persuading them to pass tighter gun restriction laws.

Sanders’ assignment read:

You are trying to persuade lawmakers to have stricter gun laws to help prevent another school shooting from taking place.

For this assignment, you are writing a letter to the lawmakers of the United States. The purpose of this letter is to pressure lawmakers to have stricter gun laws in the United States. Your letter should contain at least five complete sentences. Make sure that you use proper grammatical skills when writing your letter.

William Lee, a law enforcement officer in a nearby county, told Blue Lives Matter that his son recently brought home the assignment from Hampton Middle School.

“I asked him what he had for homework that night, and he said he had to write a paper on gun control,” Lee said. “I said, ‘Uh, oh. Let me see the assignment.’”

Then Lee logged in to his son’s online classroom, where he confirmed the assignment.

“I looked at …Read the Rest

Source:: The Blaze