A report on the feasibility and advisability of some policy to inaugurate a system of rifle practice throughout the public schools of the country

"A Report on the Feasibility and Advisability of Some Policy to Inaugurate a System of Rifle Practice Throughout the Public Schools of the Country" by George Wood Wingate is a nonfiction government document that explores the idea of teaching kids how to shoot rifles in schools. The writing, in a serious and formal tone, investigates how adding rifle practice to the school day could help young people, especially those living in cities, become more physically active when they didn't have a safe place to play and exercise. It talks about a program in New York City where high school students learned marksmanship with a special machine that made it easier to aim. The authors believed that training kids to use rifles would provide important life skills, solve problems, and keep them out of trouble. The authors suggest that more schools should begin the program and that this kind of training could help the country be prepared if there was a war.