Students use deadly weapons to learn..

Now this would have kept me more interested in school:

It isn’t often that a tailgating crowd comes out to see a science project.

However, nothing about the project taken on recently by Arthur, Arcola and Villa Grove high schools is ordinary.

The high school students all spent weeks working overtime toward the same goal: to produce a trebuchet capable of catapulting a pumpkin across a field at Rockome Gardens in Arcola.

A trebuchet is a weapon used in medieval times to attack European castles. It is similar to a catapult, except the trebuchet uses weights for launching instead of a spring, said Mike Reynolds, Arthur High School construction teacher.

Now according to the PuSH'ers, this will encourage kids to become violent and lead to an increase of drive buy trebucheting's in Central Illinois. We must ban Assault Catapults and close the Mangonel Loophole.