A Texas school district has kicked off its school year by arming its teachers — and planting warning signs outside.
After a January vote to equip its teachers with firearms, the Argyle Independent School District is warning visitors that members of its staff "are armed and may use whatever force is necessary to protect our students."
They said the decision follows "a comprehensive evaluation of District's safety, security and emergency response politics" after "the unfortunate and tragic situations that occurred in multiple American schools over the last several years," according to a release.
The right to bear arms on all four campuses just northwest of Dallas doesn't apply to all teachers; but exactly which ones it does won't be released to the public.
"I think if a tragedy does occur, lives can be saved by guns being in the right hands, and I think the teachers here might be able to stop something like that and life can be saved," parent Lacey Fenoglio told CW33.
Those packing heat are described as "school marshals."
Apparently the "school marshals" have passed a psychological exam, received firearms training, and emergency response training.
And now this is what public education in America was come to.
But I am sure that is just a happy coincidence, right conservatives?
I see something ugly happening in Argyle very soon.
ReplyDeleteStaff related. Not good.
They probably have so few African American students some teacher will say some kid in study hall they thought might be dangerous made her nervous so he/she fired on them.
Stupid.
Oh my!
ReplyDeletewww.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/27/fbi-files-link-christian-tvs-paul-crouch-to-italian-mob-palestinian-gun-trafficking/
"According to files compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the founder of the world’s largest Christian television network financed his endeavor with the assistance of numerous international criminal organizations.
Documents obtained by MuckRock show that the FBI was investigating Trinity Broadcasting Network and its founder, Paul Crouch, for being in communication with the infamous Bronx mafia figure, Vincent Gigante, with regards to a “narcotics transfer of funds,” which is how the FBI classifies money-laundering.
In another document, Crouch is listed alongside Reverend Earl Paulk and Oral Roberts as “anti-Semitic white supremacists [who] were supposedly receiving funds from the [Palestinian Liberation Organization] to ‘run guns’” via an “Islamic Education Center” in Baltimore, Maryland. Both of these investigations were tagged as relating to “financial flow” involving narcotics."
Prosperity gospel indeed.
There is something seriously wrong and evil with the state of Texas.
ReplyDeleteTexas had plenty of good people but OY, the way some of us vote just boggles the mind. I have lived here my entire life and have yet to figure out the solution to that puzzle.
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Oh yeah, more homeschooling stupidity. I work in a library and can honestly say maybe 10 percent of homeschooling parents are qualified and actually stick to properly schooling their children. The other 90 percent are truly scary and have no idea what they are doing.
ReplyDeleteExcept for those relatively few cases where parents home school b/c their kids learn too fast for public school, home schooling is mostly not about education, but rather protecting their kids from education and perpetuating the ignorance of the parents. There are sol'ns - states can legally make those students take the same standardized achievement tests as their public school peers, and at least one state, Idaho, requires teaching credentials for those who choose to home school. For a state to not do anything to monitor the educational progress of home-schooled children is sheer negligence in that it allows the claim of home-schooling to be an unchecked exemption from truancy. That claim needs to be periodically rejustified. Intellectually crippling a child is irreversible abuse with huge personal and social consequences.There is sufficient evidence that it happens to justify looking after the welfare of the children involved.
DeleteI feel badly for the families that can't afford to move to a saner school district or state. Pretty soon, all that'll be left are senior citizens in argyle, and a lot of abandoned houses and closed schools.
ReplyDeleteI don't know about other families, but how many can afford to keep one parent home full time to "homeschool" their kids, and do they need to be armed, have training, psychological testing and a sign as well? What a great environment to expand the minds of children and educate the next generation.