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



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.

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)

reuters.com

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another thread on this...

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yep , my appoligies , running here : http://teakdoor.com/us-domestic-issu...tml#post723191 (Guns for Texas school's teachers)

good2bhappy

You will study !
Or make my day!

sabang

I suppose the question is, what will happen first.
Will a brave teacher mow down a marauding gunman with his Piece?
Or will a frustrated teacher put a slug in one of his students?

Bugs

I don't really have a problem with this. Plenty of schools out there already that have security forces at the school. The real key is making sure any teacher that get permission to carry also gets training - not just some one time course either, they should be required to have a yearly course over summer break.

I also think the parents have the right to know which teachers specifically have been given permission to carry.

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