Demonstration for students

[Leonredbeard]

Ms. Audrey is teaching at a private school this year. She has arranged for me to visit her history class in full dress, lay out my stuff on a table, load my gonnes, and FIRE them! The students are really pumped about this event. Some are hunters, most are boys. The administration at the school has assured me that no harm will come to me or my possessions for this act of kindness. Bless me Lord!
volatpluvia

 

[Griz]

And God bless you for doing this. I do an event every spring through the Pa. Game Commission called Youth Field Day. It is very rewarding to see the kids get interested in this hobby and that things can actually be done without the assistance of department store, TV or some video game. If you really want to amaze them, take them out side and start a fire with flint and steel. I always get opened mouths when I do a fire. Have fun and mold the future.

 

[RC]

Volatpluvia, a thanks to you fer takin time to share with the kids! and I think griz has something there, young guy that shoots w/ us went camping and was cookin over a open fire..nieghbors were gaga about it never seen anyone start a flint and steel fire let alone actually cook over it..(how very sad!) another couple went to a campsite and took all their primitive stuff, whitw canvas wall tent w/ fly, cast iron pans, grate,wooden slab chairs..got lots of comments and lots of questions...who knows, maybe planted a seed somewhere....that'd be good! :hatsoff: RC

 

[Leonredbeard]

Thanks Guys,
It will be outside and I do intend to start a flint and steel fire. I won't have time to cook over it, though.
volatpluvia

 

[elarges]

I teach at a public high school in Michigan. I have been reenacting for about 30 years...maybe a touch more.
Anyhow, I would LOVE to do a presentation for my classes, but I can't even bring in the LOCK mechanism from my flinter to show how it works.
I can show them stuff like a flint and steel, cookware, maybe even a warclub, but nothing to do with guns, and no hawk or knife, either.
I get angry when people say that teachers are failing our children today. It's not the teachers...it's the red tape that binds our wrists.

 

[bnail]

I teach at a public high school in Michigan. I have been reenacting for about 30 years...maybe a touch more.
Anyhow, I would LOVE to do a presentation for my classes, but I can't even bring in the LOCK mechanism from my flinter to show how it works.
I can show them stuff like a flint and steel, cookware, maybe even a warclub, but nothing to do with guns, and no hawk or knife, either.
I get angry when people say that teachers are failing our children today. It's not the teachers...it's the red tape that binds our wrists.

Hey Eric, I work at a small Indian School up here in the UP and had the rare experience/pleasure of having one of our liberal minded early el teachers walk into my room while being handed a brass trade hawk from our language director, he was giving it to me as a present; imagine the look on her face when she realized what it was! :rotf: :rotf:
I salute you for your zeal though, as I'm rather burned out on school displays, it's sad to say, bu I've come full circle on Maslow's hierarchy and am back to doing this just for me. I just don't have the energy or patience to deal with Smarta$$ teens who are too busy lookiong cool to worry about anything else.

 

[Black Hand]

I get angry when people say that teachers are failing our children today. It's not the teachers...it's the red tape that binds our wrists.

I agree, but sometimes it is influenced by prejudices/fears of the teachers and school administrators (in some cases with good reasons and in other cases totally unfounded). I too do these demos, and have been asked (on very rare occasions) to not bring my guns. But I figure that a little information is better than none at all. After all, you can still show pictures, can't you?