In Texas School, Teachers Carry Books and Guns
In one small Texas town going back to school includes FOUR R’s: reading, ‘riting, ‘rithmetic and ricocheting bullets! Well, that could be the fourth ‘r’ if any of the teachers allowed to carry a concealed weapon to school makes a wrong decision.
“The school board in this impoverished rural hamlet in North Texas has drawn national attention with its decision to let some teachers carry concealed weapons, a track no other school in the country has followed. The idea is to ward off a massacre along the lines of what happened at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999.”
““Our people just don’t want their children to be fish in a bowl,” said David Thweatt, the schools superintendent and driving force behind the policy. “Country people are take-care-of-yourself people. They are not under the illusion that the police are there to protect them.””
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