{"id":866,"date":"2008-08-16T00:01:28","date_gmt":"2008-08-16T08:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/ross\/2008\/08\/16\/texas-school-district-will-allow-teachers-to-carry-guns\/"},"modified":"2008-08-16T00:01:28","modified_gmt":"2008-08-16T08:01:28","slug":"texas-school-district-will-allow-teachers-to-carry-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/2008\/08\/texas-school-district-will-allow-teachers-to-carry-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas school district will allow teachers to carry guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"guns-for-teacher.gif\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/files\/2009\/02\/guns-for-teacher.gif\" width=\"375\" height=\"302\" \/><br \/>\nTeachers in <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.ca\/maps?q=harrold+tx&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;um=1&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=geocode_result&amp;resnum=1&amp;ct=title\">Harrold, Texas<\/a> will be allowed to pack heat in the classroom beginning this month, another advance in school reform in the USA. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/16\/us\/16brfs-TEACHERSCANC_BRF.html?_r=1&amp;emc=tnt&amp;tntemail1=y&amp;oref=slogin\">AP reports<\/a> that &#8220;For employees to carry a pistol, they must have a Texas license to carry a concealed handgun; must be authorized to carry by the district; must receive training in crisis management and hostile situations; and must use ammunition designed to minimize the risk of ricocheting bullets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At first I thought I this was a horrifying idea, but if they use low ricocheting ammo then I guess it&#8217;s okay.<\/p>\n<p>So I guess teacher educators in Texas will have to start revising those classroom management syllabi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teachers in Harrold, Texas will be allowed to pack heat in the classroom beginning this month, another advance in school reform in the USA. The AP reports that &#8220;For employees to carry a pistol, they must have a Texas license to carry a concealed handgun; must be authorized to carry by the district; must receive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}