Members of the Auburn-Washburn Unified School District 437 board of education on Monday heard a proposal for a new high school-level marksmanship program.
“A lot of people think we’re putting guns in schools,” Master Sgt. Wayne Long, a certified marksmanship instructor for the Washburn Rural High School Air Force JROTC program, told board members. “That’s not what we’re doing.”
If board members approve the marksmanship program during their next meeting on April 4, Long said gun safety courses would begin in the fall and target practice would ...