Posted on 12/02/2014 11:45:06 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
In the tiny Texas town of Harrold, children and their parents do not give much thought to their safety at the community's only school, because they know that some of the teachers are carrying concealed weapons.
In the remote town, the nearest law enforcement office is 30 minutes away and the residents know each other and trust each other, so the school board made the momentous decision to allow teachers to arm themselves at their work around children.
Desperate to avoid the deadly consequences of their own school shooting incident, Harrold Independent School District has utlized armed teachers since 2007 and in the light of the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre became convinced it was the correct decision.
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In interviews with the Associated Press just after Sandy Hook, CaRae Reinisch, who lives in the nearby community of Elliott, said she took her children out of a larger school and enrolled them in Harrold two years ago, partly because she felt they would be safer in a building with armed teachers.
'I think it's a great idea for trained teachers to carry weapons,' Reinish said. 'But I hate that it has come to this.'
The superintendent won't disclose how many of the school's 50 employees carry weapons, saying that revealing that number might jeopardize school security.
The school, about 150 miles northwest of Fort Worth near the Oklahoma border, has 103 students from kindergarten through 12th grade. Most of them rarely think about who is carrying a gun.
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If you entrust your children to other adults who will regard their charges as precious as their own, then they are doing the right thing. It is also courageous because to be a protector takes bravery.
This school will not experience the same as the innocents at Breslan.
There was an early episode of the “Death Valley Days” tv-series, in which a young lady schoolmarm arrives in a western town to take the school’s teaching job. The students are rowdy and raucus, thinking their new teacher is a pushover. Sitting behind her desk in the schoolroom as two ruffian boys toss a softball back and forth, she pulls out a pistol and shoots the ball, destroying it in mid-air. And quickly earning the attention, respect and discipline of her students.
Ah, that’s the America I knew and loved. A tv-show (supposedly based on a true story) enacting the above semi-comical scene, and a public and citizenry that wouldn’t even blink an eye at it. Before the whole country became a bunch of faggoty, PC-indoctrinated wimps.
“’I think it’s a great idea for trained teachers to carry weapons,’ Reinish said. ‘But I hate that it has come to this.’”
Now that is the kind of logic Liberals are incapable of and/or refuse to use.
The district has 110 students, 37% minority mostly Hispanic.
Harrold’s 100 miles or so west of here, and my kinda place! Rural Denton County is pretty nice too.
And the school has a storm cellar big enough to hold all the students and staff....very handy in the middle of Tornado Alley. It is another sign that they are serious about safety.
“This school will not experience the same as the innocents at Breslan.”
My bet would be that this school district will never have to deal with an armed intruder simply by reason of the fact that they have armed teachers. It is a self-fulfilling decision.
And 0 violent or criminal incidents indicates a seriousness toward respect.
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Went to school in small-town Oklahoma -- one building, 12 grades, 300-or-so students.
Nobody would've thought a thing about it, had the teachers been armed. And, during the fall hunting season, half the boys 6th-grade-up would have a .22 or a shotgun in their locker.
On any given day, between students, teachers, admin and maintenance, there might've been 100 weapons in the building. And nobody thought a thing about it...
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