PA Hunters Education Reform
03-02-2002, 01:18 PM
#11
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Pittsburgh PA USA
Posts: 186
RE: PA Hunters Education Reform
Hey... common sense doesn't always come with age. <img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>
I'm 37... and I agree... there is no replacing hands on learning.
-DT
I'm 37... and I agree... there is no replacing hands on learning.
-DT
03-03-2002, 06:04 PM
#12
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: SW PA USA
Posts: 7,220
RE: PA Hunters Education Reform
I guess some of HT-Ed could be taight on-line but the hands on (especially the shoot/don't shoot walk) is vital and shouldn't be left out. If the idea is to make it more accessible, fine, let there be an online day followed up by a hands on/ real life day. Actually I'd like to see more hands on than there is now though.
03-03-2002, 06:26 PM
#13
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Land of Oz
Posts: 9,626
RE: PA Hunters Education Reform
I took my son to Pennsylvania for his hunter's safety course. I took it with him.I had a lot of good to say about the course and a lot of criticism.
First off, eliminate the trapping part. If you want a trappers safety course, design one... but at least for now, very very few people interested in trapping, and all in all it's not too terribly dangerous.
Secondly if you cannot teach what you want to teach in the way of safety in 8 hours, you're trying to teach too much to a kid. It is my opinion that it would attract more kids if it were shorter. Yes, I know some kids would walk through fire to get their license but others are only mildly interested and at certain ages 12 hours sounds like a long time.
Lastly, if the course is so critical to safety, how did us old dirts get along without it?
I will tell you how...our fathers taught us. A privilege which I have been forbidden to use under the new law. If my sons do not sit in 12 hours of classroom instruction, I cannot take them and let them enjoy hunting to see if they like it.
I do NOT have all the answers, but I do know that the present situation has precluded my youngest from hunting. He cringes at the thought of sitting in a classroom all weekend after sitting in a classroom all week. (He is only mildly interested in it.)
I did not have to do that, nor did my father, or his father, or his father....
First off, eliminate the trapping part. If you want a trappers safety course, design one... but at least for now, very very few people interested in trapping, and all in all it's not too terribly dangerous.
Secondly if you cannot teach what you want to teach in the way of safety in 8 hours, you're trying to teach too much to a kid. It is my opinion that it would attract more kids if it were shorter. Yes, I know some kids would walk through fire to get their license but others are only mildly interested and at certain ages 12 hours sounds like a long time.
Lastly, if the course is so critical to safety, how did us old dirts get along without it?
I will tell you how...our fathers taught us. A privilege which I have been forbidden to use under the new law. If my sons do not sit in 12 hours of classroom instruction, I cannot take them and let them enjoy hunting to see if they like it.
I do NOT have all the answers, but I do know that the present situation has precluded my youngest from hunting. He cringes at the thought of sitting in a classroom all weekend after sitting in a classroom all week. (He is only mildly interested in it.)
I did not have to do that, nor did my father, or his father, or his father....
