Eddie Eagle

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Any sources on how effective this program is?
The only thing I've ever seen is the dateline (or 20/20) program. Based on that show I wouldn't think it is very effective. I am trying to argue NRA's positive contributions to safety.


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I don't know how you can assess the overall effectiveness of a safety program like this. Creating a control group would be a) very difficult to impossible and b) immoral (since it would presumably result in a group of untrained kids more likely to die).

That said, I think it worked for me. I ordered a kit from the NRA when my son was about 4. When he was about 6, he and a friend one day ran in breathlessly from the back yard. "Dad! We found a gun in the back yard! We didn't touch it!" They had found a gray plastic toy six-shooter 3/4 buried in the dirt. And they didn't touch it!

And I don't think they would have touched a real gun, had they come across one, so I say Eddie Eagle worked for me.
 
From time to time I read bits and pieces from sources outside the NRA to the effect that it is at worst somewhat effective. That is, there just really aren't that many guns "out there" lying loose. Some school teachers claim that it helps.

When there are only some 150 deaths per year from gun accidents for children under 14, it's hard to tell the effectiveness when there are at least 10 or 15 million kids in that age range. I assume it is helpful in keeping the death rate down.

But I support it. Nobody else is doing anything at all.

Damfino, Art
 
I bought Eddie recently, and gave it to my nephews that are home-schooled. They watched it and the 4 yr old is 'doing the dance'. The older ones also watched it and they are the type that teach one another.
I, of course, looked it over, read the lesson plans, etc. and I have no doubt it will/has worked.
 
i was out in the backyard with my 4 year old daughter last weekend. We were playing on her swing set when she started reciting: Stop, drop & roll. I asked her if she knew what this ment and she really did not know. She was just recalling a "poem" she heard somewhere. i explained about fire safety & that the "poem" was what your should do if your clothes catch on fire.

I thought that this was a good time for a lesson on gun safety so i taught her:
Stop, don't touch, tell Mom & Dad.

Kids are very bright and really want to please their parents. I explained about how guns are not toys and that if she ever sees one she should tell me or another adult. Simple memory patterns do work. Later she told her Mom what she learned. I think she understands the lesson.

doc Zox
 
Adding my voice to the chorus: I don't know how to measure effectiveness, but I have taught the EE program to about 60-70 K through 1st kids in the last two years. Several of them still come up to me and chant and dance "Stop, don't touch, leave the area, tell an adult!" I always grin broadly and tell them how proud I am of them, and tell them to remember, it's not just a song, it's a rule. I don't know if it's saved any lives, but if it ever does, the little time spent is worth it.

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The program won an award from the National Safety Council in, I think, 1995. It would be difficult to determine how many deaths were stopped because the deaths didn't happen to be counted. You might look at falling accidental firearm death rates since the program started, but then you can't prove the saves were the result of an NRA program.

[This message has been edited by Jeff OTMG (edited June 09, 2000).]
 
I let the elementary school borrow my tape several years ago. I had approached the principal at a PTA meeting about showing the tape to the entire school. I ask her to preview the tape and see what she thought. She did, and did show it to grades pre-k to 4th grade. I had positive comment privately from several of the teachers later. The only thing that puzzeled me was she would not contact the NRA to get the coloring books and the rest of the program. I guess getting her to show the tape in the first place was a victory in itself. I have one that going into the third grade next year so I guess its time to run it by the current administration again.
 
Eddie Eagle what kind of whimp name is that ?

How Bout Sure Shot Sam ?

No wonder I dont give moneys to the NRA.
They are a bunch of back stabbers anyway !!
 
Thanks for all your helpful replies. I really appreciate it.

take care all

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Rob
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