In one rural Texas school district, teachers are adding one extra thing to their back to school shopping lists. Concealed weapons.

A local school board, Harrold Independent School District, in rural North Texas unanimously passed the policy to allow its teachers and staff to carry concealed hand guns to school. According to Fort Worth Star-Telegram, since the tiny 110-student school district was just off a heavily trafficked freeway, US 287, they felt the police was too far to respond quickly if there ever was an emergency. Therefore, the school board passed CKC (LOCAL), Safety Program/Risk Management Emergency Plans, which states:

Recognizing that District schools are located in a somewhat isolated area and that response from emergency first responders, including law enforcement personnel, takes a minimum of approximately 30 minutes, the Board adopts the following policy to address concerns about effective and timely response to emergency situations at schools, including invasion of the schools by an armed outsider, hostage situations, students who are armed and posing a direct threat of physical harm to themselves or others, and similar circumstances.

For a teacher to carry a conceal handgun, they are required to have a Texas concealed handgun license, undergoing training in crisis management, and hostile situations and must use ammunition designed to minimize the risk of ricocheting bullets.

This is a scary precedent indeed but what is even scarier and questionable is that the school district in question has one school under its direction, meaning that one school will be armed.
That certainly demands some explaining.

It isn’t clear if there have been incidents in this school that would lead administration to call for armed teachers (not that in my mind anything would justify arming teachers).

Via / Para Justicia y Libertad