Texas school district will allow teachers to carry guns

Examiner ^ | 12/17/12 | Jennifer L. Cruz

[Brandonmark]

The Harrold Independent School District in Texas has passed a policy change in an effort to increase safety for its students and staff. According to a report published by Fox News on Saturday, December 15, 2012, the policy will allow teachers and other staff to carry concealed guns.

The school district, which has 110 students ranging from kindergarten to 12th grade, admitted to researching several options for better safety in the school and debated the issue for about a year before the final decision was made.

The policy was changed last October and will go into effect later this month. Teachers who wish to carry pistols will have to abide by certain safety standards which include a current Texas conceal carry license, authorization by the school district, as well as training in crisis management and hostile situations. In addition, they will be required to use ammunition that is specifically designed to reduce the risk of ricochet.

The school will not disclose how many of the 50 teachers will be carrying guns.

[re_nortex]

Texans, gota love um. If our nation believe and lived as Texans, our country would be safe.

Honestly, this is the very best state in the nation. I say that as a non-native of the Lone Star state but one who made a deliberate decision to upgrade from Pennsylvania to Texas. This is a place where Conservative Christians can associate with kindred spirits. Unions are essentially powerless here and even some of the old-time Democrats in rural areas are more Conservative than Republicans back in the mid-Atlantic region. Sure we have problems such as too many Messkins and other minorities of the liberal persuasion but our sane gun laws and culture along with aggressive enforcement of the death penalty more than makes up for the few shortfalls here. While liberals take glee in mocking Texas, we just enjoy the terrific business climate and good life here in what is is really the most enlightened of these United States.

[Eye of Unk]

I just read an article about how the Anchorage Alaska school district is teaching the kids to lie down on the floor, to not move and to be silent. To play dead. BTW Anchorage is a very liberal part of Alaska.

Now you head away from there then you get everybody packing, and not just pistols, but still the schools do not have plans for arming the students.

I think its time to do a country wide sickout until the schools provide better security.

[DH]

I am an old native Texan and I was in school (50’s to 60’s) EVERY teacher had a paddle and used it regularly.

For some reason I got the paddle more than others. I can’t imagine why but it “adjusted” my attitude on a regular basis.

[DH]

What a sad state of affairs!

The Jews in Israel have common sense and the Jews here want to disarm law abiding citizens so the freaks and criminals can have their way with them.

Israel = Lions
American Jews = Mice

[New Jersey Realist]

Honestly, this is the very best state in the nation.

But don't you find the weather a little overbearing in the summer? I have relatives who relocated there from NJ and they like it but when I see weeks straight of 100 degree plus days I resist their offers to join them.

[bmwcyle]

God Bless Texas

[re_nortex]

But don't you find the weather a little overbearing in the summer? I have relatives who relocated there from NJ and they like it but when I see weeks straight of 100 degree plus days I resist their offers to join them.

I have lasting memories of long, brutal Pennsylvania winters. So when we do have those streaks of 100+ days, I simply think back to shoveling snow, facing the biting wind and frostbitten fingers. For some reason, 104 degrees doesn't feel so bad! :-)

Actually here in North Texas (the Ft. Worth-Dallas area), summers are probably more bearable then what our Gulf Coast Texas FReepers deal with. The humidity is tolerable here, mitigating the effects of the sometimes soaring mercury. And the past couple of summers with successive days in the hundreds and precious little rain have been outliers. The general trend is for temperatures to remain in the 90s for daytime highs. I'll add that since warm weather is a fact of life, one gets acclimated to it and the region is equipped to handle it with ubiquitous air conditioning.