Texas school district to let teachers carry guns
 

Texas school district to let teachers carry guns
Aug 15, 2008

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080815/ts_nm/texas_guns_dc

HOUSTON (Reuters) - A Texas school district will let teachers bring guns to class this fall, the district's superintendent said on Friday, in what experts said appeared to be a first in the United States.
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The board of the small rural Harrold Independent School District unanimously approved the plan and parents have not objected, said the district's superintendent, David Thweatt.

School experts backed Thweatt's claim that Harrold, a system of about 110 students 150 miles northwest of Fort Worth, may be the first to let teachers bring guns to the classroom.

Thweatt said it is a matter of safety.

"We have a lock-down situation, we have cameras, but the question we had to answer is, 'What if somebody gets in? What are we going to do?" he said. "It's just common sense."

Teachers who wish to bring guns will have to be certified to carry a concealed handgun in Texas and get crisis training and permission from school officials, he said.

Recent school shootings in the United States have prompted some calls for school officials to allow students and teachers to carry legally concealed weapons into classrooms.

The U.S. Congress once barred guns at schools nationwide, but the U.S. Supreme Court struck the law down, although state and local communities could adopt their own laws. Texas bars guns at schools without the school's permission.

(Reporting by Jim Forsyth in San Antonio; writing by Bruce Nichols in Houston, editing by Vicki Allen)

Re: Texas school district to let teachers carry guns
 

Figured it would be Texans who'd pony up first. Bless 'em.

Remember the Alamo
Remember Goliad
Remember San Jacinto: Texans: 630 Mexico: 9

Re: Texas school district to let teachers carry guns
 

Hurray! Finally some people with sense!

Re: Texas school district to let teachers carry guns
 

about time seeing how much our schools are the new proving grounds.

Re: Texas school district to let teachers carry guns
 

My mother is a teacher down in Florida. She teaches at risk kids. She has been physically assaulted 3 times in the last 5 years. She says there is always a cop on duty while the school is open but it doesn't stop kids from stabbing each other and banging each other's heads into walls and lockers.

They found a hit list on one of the students and they let the student go in fear of retaliation. It's out of control.

It is nice to know that they will allow weapons in certain conditions.

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????fear of retaliation????---