It actualy has to do with the "New-York trigger", not marksmanship skill. A gun class which included firing the gun would teach you about how heavy trigger pulls affected your ability to hit what you're aiming at.
which would go against my opinion about firing a gun at school. Pulling on the trigger to feel how much power is needed to fire off a gun does not need live rounds IMHO. If children's parents want to teach their kids to fire guns they should do this as a gun club/school but not in regular school.
Children get suspended for play acting gun fire, how would you ever stop that kind of behavior if they are going to be firing actual guns at school?
Teaching children to stay away from guns, teaching children how to pick up guns safely and showing what a fired bullet does to flesh or sound like is one things, firing it is a whole different kinda thing which I think does not belong on schools.
In first-aid we actualy performed CPR on dummies. In Combat-Lifesaver we actualy gave eachother nose-tubes and IVs. Likewise gun training should involve shooting at a target.
That is your opinion but purely training gun safety issues does not involve shooting said gun. If parents want to subject their children to that or want to teach their children about that, then I would say there is an ample amount of places one can do this safely and legally in the US.
Teaching children first aid is to save lives, teaching kids to not pick up guns, aim guns at other children, train them to pick up guns safely etc. etc. is to save lives but shooting guns is not something that ought to be taught at schools.
I think children should not be owning or firing guns at all, but that is purely my opinion. To buy alcohol they have to wait until age 21, to drive they have to wait until they are 16, to join the armed forces you have to be 17 (with parental consent) and 18 without parental consent but guns is not that regulated. Sure, owning or buying a handgun for most under 18 year old youths is illegal but long guns and other non handguns in a private sale under the age of 18 is allowed (or should I say there is no federal law that forbids that) neither is shooting long guns illegal under age 18 (younger children can join their parents in a hunt).
But again, above is just my opinion, not what I say has to happen in schools in the USA, it is just purely my opinion, nothing more and nothing less.
It is not meant to offend or insult, it is just a gun critical opinion which some people in the US must also agree with even though it is mostly the voice of the NRA that can be heard (especially in elections) when it comes to guns.