Texas Teachers Allowed to Carry Guns in Class

Blair Golson August 15, 2008 | 7:29 pm EST

Mr. Senate in "Boston Public"

In what appears to be a first in the country, a Texas school district has OK’d teachers to carry guns into school this fall.

Said the Harrold Independent School District superintendent, David Thweatt:

“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.”

This reminds me of that great episode from Boston Public in which Mr. Senate (pictured above, right) shoots a blank gun in class to get the students’ attention. But something tells me this isn’t what the Texas teachers have in mind…

In “Boston Public,” Mr. Senate shot a gun in class — but not for the same reason that teachers in Texas presumably want/need to do so…